Mr. MAYNER: Conlon Nancarrow was writing the early version of a mash-up -combining different melodies and different time signatures. He knew this was too hard for just about anyone to play so he ...

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If you wanted to conjure up the quintessential reclusive unsung genius of the musical world - an artist to make Emily Dickinson look like a celebrated glad-hander by comparison - you could not do ...

As an English major, Web editor, and gearhead, my favorite literary metaphor of the 20th century comes from William Gaddis’s two essays on the player piano — Stop Player. Joke #4 and “Agape Agape: The ...

In 1989, after decades of isolation creating intricate rhythmic studies for player piano, the great American composer Conlon Nancarrow wrote a set of three pieces for pianist Ursula Oppens that ...

TEXARKANA -- Texarkana's Regional Music Heritage Center will keep on scrolling with the acquisition of 27 piano rolls' worth of native son and composer Conlon Nancarrow's work. After they're made by ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Avant garde rock star Frank Zappa said his music sounded like "bionic ragtime", the U.S. government considered him an unwelcome communist and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's ...

Given Conlon Nancarrow’s exploration of the player piano and John Cage’s appropriation of the record player, the arrival of the music box to serious music was inevitable—but why did it take so long?

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