Portrait of McPhee by American photographer Carl Van Vechten, c. 1935
Born
(1900-03-15)March 15, 1900
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Died
January 7, 1964(1964-01-07) (aged 63)
Los Angeles, California
Occupations
Composer
ethnomusicologist
teacher
Spouse
Jane Belo
(m. 1931; div. 1939)
Colin Carhart McPhee (March 15, 1900 – January 7, 1964) was a Canadian-American composer and ethnomusicologist. He is best known for being the first Western composer to make a musicological study of Bali,[1] and to develop American gamelan along with fellow composer Lou Harrison. He wrote original music influenced by that of Bali and Java, decades before such compositions that were based on world music became widespread.
^Pamela Karantonis; Dylan Robinson (May 13, 2016). Opera Indigene: Re/presenting First Nations and Indigenous Cultures. Routledge. pp. 296–297. ISBN 978-1-317-08542-3.
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gamelan to the next, including variations in the size of intervals. ColinMcPhee, a Canadian composer who spent much time in Bali, remarked, "Deviations...
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arbitrarily and repetitiously, providing a rhythmic counterpoint to the film. ColinMcPhee, whose Tabuh-Tabuhan for two pianos and orchestra (1936) features the...
Rain of Tears (2006), by Chinary Ung Concerto for Wind Orchestra, by ColinMcPhee (1959) Concerto for Wind Orchestra, Op. 41, by Nikolai Lopatnikoff (1963)...
sounds faster than any single human could possibly play." According to ColinMcPhee: "Composed of two rhythmically opposing parts which...interlock to create...
made by the Canadian composer ColinMcPhee. The two met in the summer of 1939 and subsequently performed a number of McPhee's transcriptions for a recording...
(1980) John Kander Cabaret (1966), in the Finale Ultimo[citation needed] ColinMcPhee Concerto for Piano, with Wind Octette Acc. (1928) Darius Milhaud Scaramouche...
compositions, alongside Lou Harrison, John Cage and fellow Québécois ColinMcPhee.[citation needed] Despite working at a slow pace and leaving behind a...
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Bateson, and artists Miguel Covarrubias and Walter Spies, and musicologist ColinMcPhee created a western image of Bali as "an enchanted land of aesthetes at...
from visitors, Spies still received guests at Iseh, including musician ColinMcPhee and his wife, anthropologist Jane Belo, Swiss artist Theo Meier and Austrian...
strings Ernst Krenek (1900–1991), Austrian composer of 5 symphonies ColinMcPhee (1900–1964), Canadian composer of 2 symphonies Alexander Mosolov (1900–1973)...
appraise, with a program comprising Maurice Ravel, Olivier Messiaen, ColinMcPhee, George Crumb, Douglas Young, Xenakis and Toshiro Mayuzumi, prefaced...
instruments. Britten was first exposed to gamelan music by Canadian composer ColinMcPhee, who had lived in Bali from 1931–38. Britten utilized a “pseudo-gamelan”...
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