Beth Anderson Quotes

born 1950 United States

Beth Anderson (born 3rd January 1950) is an American neo-romantic composer. Anderson is best known for her swales, a musical form she invented based on collages and samples of newly composed music rather than existing music.

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Random Beth Anderson quote

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The relationship of feminism to my work and the evolution of the form of my music are in violent flux.

Beth Anderson (1980)

To make something beautiful is revolutionary (not low class, not easy, not a sign of low intelligence).

Beauty is Revolution (1980)

My own mystic bent leads me to believe that musical variations, collage, reiteration and process, or evolution, are beautiful. Life is worth living and beauty is worth making.

I used to be obsessed with this idea that odd numbers are masculine and even ones are feminine. So I wrote pieces that used even numbers, as in

What Makes Music Woman Oriented (1996)

Real music soars above class society.

Beauty is Revolution (1980)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Beth Anderson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.