Composing Ambiguity: The Early Music of Morton Feldman

American composer Morton Feldman is increasingly seen to have been one of the key figures in late-20th-century music, with his work exerting a powerful influence into the 21st century.

At the same time, much about his music remains enigmatic, largely due to long-standing myths about supposedly intuitive or aleatoric working practices.

In Composing Ambiguity, Alistair Noble reveals key aspects of Feldman's musical language as it developed during a crucial period in the early 1950s.