Aaron Copland and His World /

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Aaron Copland and His World reassesses the legacy of one of America's best-loved composers at a pivotal moment--as his life and work shift from the realm of personal memory to that of history. This collection of seventeen essays by distinguished scholars of American music explores the stages of...

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Other Authors: Tick, Judith, Oja, Carol J., 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Copland, Aaron, > 1900-1990.
Composers.
MUSIC > Reference.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians.
Compositeurs > États-Unis > Biographies.
Composers > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Between memory and history : an introduction / Carol J. Oja and Judith Tick
  • Part I. Scanning a life. Copland and the prophetic voice / Howard Pollack ; Founding sons : Copland, Sessions, and Berger on genealogy and hybridity / Martin Brody
  • Part II. Copland's greater cultural world. "To become as human as possible" : the influence of Andre Gide on Aaron Copland / Paul Anderson ; Copland and American populism in the 1930s / Morris Dickstein ; From the New York avante-garde to Mexican modernists : Aaron Copland and the visual arts / Gail Levin ; Making an American dance : "Billy the Kid", "Rodeo", and "Appalachian Spring" / Lynn Garafola
  • Part III. Copland's inner circle. Dear Aaron, dear Lenny : a friendship in letters / Vivian Perlis ; Aaron Copland and Arthur Berger in correspondence / edited and introduced by Wayne D. Shirley
  • Part IV. Analytic perspectives. War drums, tolling bells, and Copland's piano sonata / Larry Starr ; Copland's gift to be simple within the cumulative mosaic complexities of his ballets / Elliott Antokoletz
  • Part V. Political edges. Copland and the politics of Americanism / Elizabeth B. Crist ; From orient to occident : Aaron Copland and the sagas of the prairie / Beth E. Levy ; Aaron Copland, Norman Rockwell, and the "Four Freedoms" : the office of war information's vision and sound in "The Cummington Story" (1945) / Neil Lerner ; "Aaron Copland Meets the Soviet Composers" : a television special / transcribed and edited by Emily Abrams
  • Part VI. Copland and his public. Aaron Copland and the Composers' Forum-Laboratory : a post-concert discussion, February 24, 1937 / transcribed and edited by Melissa de Graaf ; Copland on television : an annotated list of interviews and documentaries / compiled by Emily Abrams
  • Part VII. Reconfiguring Copland's world. Copland reconfigured / Leon Botstein.

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