Editing Peter Garland (composer)

{{Short description|American composer}}
{{Distinguish | David Garland (musician)}}
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'''Peter Garland''' (born January 25, 1952, in [[Portland, Maine]]) is a [[composer]], writer and publisher of Soundings Press.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Garland |first1=Peter |title=A Preliminary Inventory of His Papers and Soundings Records in the Manuscript Collection at the Harry Ransom Center |url=https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00377 |website=Harry Ransom Center |publisher=Harry Ransom Center |access-date=28 December 2021}}</ref>

A student of [[James Tenney]] and [[Harold Budd]], much of Garland's work could be considered [[post-minimal]] although many of his postminimal works such as "The Days Run Away" (1971) were written in the early 1970s at the same time as the first minimalist works. He is also an expert on [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American music]], and on the music of [[Silvestre Revueltas]]. He is the author of ''Gone Walkabout: Essays 1991-''. Garland started his Soundings Press series in 1971 after attending a publishing workshop with [[Dick Higgins]] at CalArts.

==Discography==
*1982 ''Matachin Dances'' (EP, Cold Blue)
*1986 ''Peñasco Blanco'' (Cold Blue, reissued on ''Nana + Victorio'', 1993)
*1992 ''Border Music'' (¿What Next?, reissued on OO Disc, 2002)
*1992 ''Walk in Beauty'' (New Albion)
*1993 ''Nana + Victorio'' ([[Avant Records|Avant]])
*2000 ''The Days Run Away'' ([[Tzadik Records|Tzadik]])
*2002 ''Another Sunrise'' ([[Mode Records|Mode]])
*2005 ''Love Songs'' ([[Tzadik Records|Tzadik]])
*2008 ''Three Strange Angels'' (Tzadik) reissue of ''Border Music'' expanded with live recordings
*2009 ''String Quartets'' ([[Cold Blue Music]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Garland |first1=Peter |title=String Quartets |url=http://coldbluemusic.com/cb0031/ |website=Cold Blue Music |publisher=Cold Blue Music |access-date=28 December 2021}}</ref>
*2011 ''Waves Breaking on Rocks'' ([[New World Records|New World]]) 
*2015 ''After the Wars''  ([[Cold Blue Music]]) EP with Sarah Cahill
*2017 ''The Birthday Party'' ([[New World Records|New World]])
*2018 ''Moon Viewing Music (Inscrutable Stillness Studies #1)'' ([[Cold Blue Music]])
*2018 ''The Landscape Scrolls'' ([[Starkland]])
*2021 ''Three Dawns and Bush Radio Calling'' ([[Cold Blue Music]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Garland |first1=Peter |title=Three Dawns and Bush Radio Calling |url=http://www.coldbluemusic.com/cb0059-2/ |website=Cold Blue Music |publisher=Cold Blue Music |access-date=28 December 2021}}</ref>
*2023 ''The Basketweave Elegies'' ([[Cold Blue Music]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Garland |first1=Peter |title=The Basketweave Elegies |url=https://coldbluemusic.com/recent-releases/cb0066/ |website=Cold Blue Music |publisher=Cold Blue Music |access-date=19 January 2024}}</ref>

'''Compilations'''
* "The Three Strange Angels" (1973), included on ''Cold Blue'' (1984, Cold Blue, CD release 2002)
* "Apple Blossom" included on ''Persistence of Past Chemistries'' (2000, The Orchard)
* "Dancing on Water" included on ''Dancing on Water'' (2001, Cold Blue)
* "Matachin Dances" (1982), included on ''The Complete Ten-Inch Collection from Cold Blue'' (2003, Cold Blue)
* "Nights in the Gardens of Maine" included on "Cold Blue Two" (2012, Cold Blue)

'''Other recordings of compositions by Garland'''
* Ensemble Bash – ''Launch'' (1996, [[Sony Classical Records|Sony]]): "Apple Blossom" (1972)
* [[William Winant]], Roy Malan, [[Carla Kihlstedt]] a.o. – ''Peter Garland: Love Songs'' (Tzadik, 2005): "Matachin Dances", "Coyote's Bones (Last Piece)", "Love Songs"

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.frogpeak.org/fpartists/fpgarland.html Frog Peak Artist: Peter Garland]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040506131847/http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Garland.shtml Other Minds: Peter Garland]
*[http://www.moderecords.com/profiles/petergarland.html Mode Artist Profile: Peter Garland]
*[http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00377 Peter Garland Papers and ''Soundings'' Records] at the [[Harry Ransom Center]] at the [[University of Texas at Austin]]
*[http://www.coldbluemusic.com/pages/CB0031.html Garland String Quartets]

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