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Glenn Branca

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. Read more on Last.fm

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1Lesson No. 2
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2Structure
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3The Spectacular Commodity
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4The Ascension
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5Light Field (In Consonance)
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6Lesson No. 1 For Electric Guitar
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7Sym. No. 1, Movement 1
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8The Tone Row That Ruled the World
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9Dissonance
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10Lesson No. 1
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