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Leonard Bernstein and the language of jazz /

For Leonard Bernstein, music was a language capable of communicating more directly than in words, and jazz was a crucial part of his musical vocabulary. As an idiom made up of a range of styles - whether stride, boogie-woogie, swing, bebop, or cool - jazz was central to Bernstein's compositiona...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baber, Katherine A., 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
Colección:Music in American life.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Bernstein's philosophy and the language of jazz
  • Trading fours : Bernstein, Copland, Gershwin, and jazz
  • A jazz-shaped America : swing styles in Fancy Free and On the Town
  • Jazz as a rhetoric of conflict in Symphony numbers 2 : The Age of Anxiety
  • West Side Story, modern jazz, and the musical commitment
  • "Red, white and blues" : Bernstein's blues and the American soul
  • Conclusion.