Robert Erickson
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American composer, author, and educator
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Robert Erickson's Degrees
- Bachelors Composition University of Southern California
- Masters Composition University of Southern California
- Doctorate Composition University of Southern California
Why Is Robert Erickson Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Erickson was an American composer. Education Erickson was born in Marquette, Michigan. He studied with Ernst Krenek from 1936 to 1947: "I had already studied—and abandoned—the twelve tone system before most other Americans had taken it up." He influenced notable students Morton Subotnick, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, Louise Spizizen, Betty Ann Wong, and Paul Dresher. He is the author of The Structure of Music: A Listener's Guide, which he claimed helped him overcome a "contrapuntal obsession", and Sound Structure in Music , an important early attempt to systematically study timbre in music.
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