Conlon Nancarrow
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Two Canons for Ursula — Conlon Nancarrow
Piano — — Classical, Contemporary
Composed by Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997). BH Piano. Classical, Contemporary. 28 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M051284528. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (HL.48002745).
Price: $24.00
Sonatina for Piano — Conlon Nancarrow
piano 4-hands — Score — Modern
Composed by Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997). Piano, 4 Hands. Modern. Score. Duration 00:04:00. Edition Peters #EP66990A. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP66990A).
Price: $22.00
Sonatina for Piano — Conlon Nancarrow
piano solo — Score — Modern
Composed by Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997). Piano (Solo). Modern. Score. Duration 00:04:00. Edition Peters #EP66990. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP66990).
Price: $22.00
Collected Studies for Player Piano Vol. 4 — Conlon Nancarrow
mechanical piano — — Classical
Study No. 3. Composed by Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997). This edition: Paperback/Soft Cover. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Classical. 112 pages. Schott Music #ED 7686. Published by Schott Music (HL.49015357).
Price: $36.00
Toccata, Prelude, and Blues — Conlon Nancarrow
violin, piano — full score (study) — Contemporary
Composed by Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997). New Music, Quarterly of Modern Composition. Contemporary. Full score (study). With Standard notation. 12 pages. Theodore Presser Company #114-40360. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114403600).
Price: $8.00
Collected Studies for Player Piano Vol. 5 — Conlon Nancarrow
mechanical piano — — Classical
Study No. 2, 6, 7, 14, 20, 21, 24, 26, 33. Composed by Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997). This edition: Paperback/Soft Cover. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Classical. 238 pages. Schott Music #ED 7687. Published by Schott Music (HL.49007447).
Price: $44.00
Studies No. 6 & 7 — Conlon Nancarrow
2 pianos — 2 copies — Classical
Transcribed for two pianos by Thomas Ades. Composed by Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997). Arranged by Thomas Ades. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Piano Duet. Classical. 2 copies. Composed 1998. 120 pages. Duration 14'. Schott Music #ED 20067. Published by Schott Music (HL.49017598).
Price: $69.00
Works for Small Orchestra — Continuum
— listening CD —
By Continuum. By Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997). American Classics. Listening CD. Published by Naxos (NX.8559196).
Price: $11.00
The Music of Conlon Nancarrow —
— Book Only —
Music in the Twentieth Century, 7. Book Only. Composed 2006. 316 pages. Cambridge University Press #9780521028073. Published by Cambridge University Press (BT.9780521028073).
Price: $66.00
The Life of the Machines — Alexandr Wassiljevich Mossolow
— CD —
Composed by Alexandr Wassiljevich Mossolow, Wladyslaw Szpilman, George Antheil (1900-1959), Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997), and Nikolai Andreyevich Roslavets (1881-1944). Recording mediums. CD. Duration 65' 32''. MDS (Music Distribution Services) #EDA 28. Published by MDS (Music Distribution Services) (M7.EDA-28).
Price: $25.00
It is the 60 Studies for Player Piano for which Nancarrow is best known — these pieces feature a complexity of rhythm and speed that no human pianist could ever hope to achieve. He wrote these works by punching holes in rolls of paper. By the late 1970s these studies were published and, as Nancarrow gained popularity, he wrote some works for more conventional media.
Conlon Nancarrow was a jazz trumpeter and studied composition in the 1930s. In 1937 he went to Spain to fight against Franco’s Fascist revolution. On his return to the United States in 1939, he was criticized for being a premature anti-fascist, and the US government took away his passport. He then moved to Mexico City in 1940, and spent the rest of his life there.