Perspectives on American Composers
Author | : Benjamin Boretz |
Publisher | : New York : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Benjamin Boretz |
Publisher | : New York : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James R. Heintze |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2024-01-26 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1135599416 |
As the century comes to a close, composition of music in the United States has reached little consensus in terms of style, techniques, or schools. In fourteen original articles, the contributors to this volume explore the broad range and diversity of post-World War II musical culture. Classical and jazz idioms are both covered, as is the broad history of electronic music in the United States.
Author | : James R. Heintze |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780815321446 |
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Edward T. Cone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bill Banfield |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2004-09-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0585464162 |
A sequel to the award-winning The Black Composer Speaks (Scarecrow Press, 1978), this exploration of the creative world of African American composers traces the lives and careers of 40 talented individuals and, in their own words, provides perspectives on a world that has been slow to recognize their remarkable contributions to classical music. The discussion places the music of these composers within the greater context of Western art music, but analyzes it through the lenses of sociology, Western concepts of art and taste, and vernacular musical forms, including spirituals, blues, jazz, and contemporary popular music. Each chapter is devoted to an individual composer, who discusses his or her musical training, compositional techniques and style, and the composer's personal philosophy as reflected in his or her music. A selected list of compositions for each composer is included, as well as a photo and sample of the composer's "hand." Banfield offers unprecedented insight into the history and influence of the African American composer with this documentary, which will appeal to everyone from the music scholar to the general reader.
Author | : Michael Saffle |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2012-10-12 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1136519793 |
The essays in this collection reflect the range and depth of musical life in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. Contributions consider the rise and triumph of popular forms such as jazz, swing, and blues, as well as the contributions to art music of composers such as Ives, Cage, and Copland, among others. American contributions to music technology and dissemination, and the role of these forms in extending the audience for music, is also a focus.
Author | : Michael Saffle |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2012-10-12 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1136519726 |
The essays in this collection reflect the range and depth of musical life in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. Contributions consider the rise and triumph of popular forms such as jazz, swing, and blues, as well as the contributions to art music of composers such as Ives, Cage, and Copland, among others. American contributions to music technology and dissemination, and the role of these forms in extending the audience for music, is also a focus.
Author | : Arthur Berger |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2002-11-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0520232518 |
A book of memoirs and essays by notable composer, critic and teacher Arthur Berger. The author writes vividly about the music scenes in New York, Paris, and Boston, and of his work with notable colleagues such as Stravinsky, Copeland, and Virgil Thompson.
Author | : Gail Levin |
Publisher | : Watson-Guptill Publications |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
"Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Heckscher Museum in Huntington, New York, Aaron Copland's America is a collaboration between two well-known and highly esteemed scholars, art historian Gail Levin and musicologist Judith Tick, whose complementary essays focus on, respectively, Copland's interactions with the art world (visual and otherwise) and on his music. The book documents Copland's friendships with painters such as Georgia O'Keeffe and Diego Rivera; photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand; composers Virgil Thomson and Igor Stravinsky; choreographers Martha Graham and Agnes de Mille; and writers Hart Crane and Gertrude Stein, exploring the direct exchange of ideas these relationships engendered and examining esthetic and intellectual parallels between their work and Copland's. At the same time, it looks at how Copland's fascination with folk and popular culture, native arts, jazz, cinema, and the search for an American national art gave form to his music, which sprang not only from his personal talent but also from connections to the powerful creative forces around him."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Michael K. Slayton |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2010-12-23 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0810877481 |
In this collection of essays and interviews, nine gifted composers openly discuss their work.