Mellers (composer and professor emeritus, University of York) begins with the confusion of the (unfamiliar) forest within, audible in Wagner's late and Shoenberg's early works, in Delius's A
Village Romeo and Juliet , and Debussy's PellTas et MTlisande . The next section, The Forest Without, examines Charles Koechlin's Le Foret FTerique and Milhaud's Le Boeuf Sur le Toit which
embrace the real jungle without and the imaginative jungle within. Part 3 shows Villa-Lobos and Carlos Ch�vez connecting, as Mellers puts it, "the jungle within the mind and the asphalt jungle
of a rapidly industrialized metropolis." Part four explores interrelationships between wilderness and machine through the work of Carl Ruggles, VarFse, Partch, Reich, and the Australian, Peter
Sculthorpe. Finally, the erasure of border between wilderness and civilization is the focus in works by Ellington and Gershwin. Suitable for both musicians and non-musicians. Annotation c. Book
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