Glenn Branca

About

Glenn Branca (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 6, 1948 - May 13, 2018) was an American avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series. Branca received a 2009 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. Branca studied theater at Emerson College in Boston in the early 1970s. While there, he began experimenting with sound as the founder of an experimental theater group called Bastard Theater.

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   Lesson No. 2

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   Structure

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   The Spectacular Commodity

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4. 4

   The Ascension

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5. 5

   Light Field (In Consonance)

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   Sym. No. 1, Movement 1

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7. 7

   Lesson No. 1 For Electric Guitar

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8. 8

   The Tone Row That Ruled the World

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