☛ Music on Putney Debater
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VIDEO
- Orchestras
A Video Essay by Michael Chanan, originally made for a conference on ‘The Art of Management and Organization’. For educational use only.
- The Politics of Music
Directed by Michael Chanan, featuring Pierre Boulez, made for BBC2, 1972
- Watching Music
Documentary directed by Michael Chanan on musicians in rehearsal and performance featuring the Allegri String Quartet and Gentle Fire, BBC2, 1971
BOOKS
☛ Repeated Takes, A Short History of Recording and its effects on music, Verso, 1995
☛ Musica Practica: The Social Practice of Western from Gregorian Chant to Postmodernism, Verso, 1996
☛ From Handel to Hendrix, The Composer in the Public Sphere, Verso 1999
SHORT PIECES
¶ A Quartet for our times (New Left Review, 1993) A group obituary for Messiaen, Cage, Piazzola and Gillespie
¶ Mahler in Venice? (Music & Musicians, 1971) Thomas Mann, Gustav Mahler, and Visconti’s ‘Death in Venice’
¶ The Soundcarrier(Entry in Encyclopaedia of Popular Music of the World, ed. John Shepherd et.al., Macmillan, 200