Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz /

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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
Autor principal: Baber, Katherine A., 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Bernstein, Leonard, > 1918-1990.
Bernstein, Leonard, > 1918-1990 > Criticism and interpretation.
Music.
Jazz.
MUSIC > General.
MUSIC > Reference.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
Jazz > History and criticism.
Music > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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.

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