Aaron Copland is one of America's best-known composers and writers on twentieth century music. This volume brings together for the first time the best of his published essays on music, with previously unpublished material from his diaries, letters, and writings to present a complete picture of Copland as a cultural critic.
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These aren't just two superb source books about cornerstone figures in American music, they are, themselves, indelible contributions to the very idea of American culture and how it got that way..
–Buffalo News, March 2004
–Buffalo News, March 2004
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Richard Kostelanetz has edited over 40 collections of essays on American culture, ranging in subject matter from avant-garde fiction to collections of critical writings on John Cage and Frank Zappa. He is also a published critic, writer, and artist.
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This section opens with three chapters from Copland's first book, What to Listen for in Music (1939), "How We Listen," "Musical Structure," and "Tone Color," which remain classic introductions to each of those sections. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sheerly musical plane, dodecaphonic method, double string quartet, sensuous plane, formal mold, occidental music, dubbing room, mass song, younger composers, operatic form Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Virgil Thomson, Roy Harris, Soviet Union, League of Composers, George Antheil, Nadia Boulanger, Piano Fantasy, Something Wild, Marc Blitzstein, Martha Graham, Piano Variations, Darius Milhaud, Four Saints, Roger Sessions, South America, Walter Piston, Billy the Kid, Cold War, Latin America, Leonard Bernstein, Short Symphony, Paul Rosenfeld, Central Europe New!
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This section opens with three chapters from Copland's first book, What to Listen for in Music (1939), "How We Listen," "Musical Structure," and "Tone Color," which remain classic introductions to each of those sections. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sheerly musical plane, dodecaphonic method, double string quartet, sensuous plane, formal mold, occidental music, dubbing room, mass song, younger composers, operatic form Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Virgil Thomson, Roy Harris, Soviet Union, League of Composers, George Antheil, Nadia Boulanger, Piano Fantasy, Something Wild, Marc Blitzstein, Martha Graham, Piano Variations, Darius Milhaud, Four Saints, Roger Sessions, South America, Walter Piston, Billy the Kid, Cold War, Latin America, Leonard Bernstein, Short Symphony, Paul Rosenfeld, Central Europe New!
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- The Rite of Spring (Dover Miniature Music Scores) by Igor Stravinsky on 7 pages
- What to Listen for in Music by Aaron Copland on 7 pages
- Music and Imagination (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Aaron Copland on 4 pages
- Four Saints in Three Acts (2799) by V. Thomson on 4 pages
- Five Orchestral Pieces (Dover Miniature Music Scores) by Arnold Schoenberg on page 65, and page 159
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- Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War by Elizabeth B. Crist on 4 pages
- William Schuman: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) by K. Gary Adams on page 45, and page 71
- American Mavericks: Musical Visionaries, Pioneers, Iconoclasts by Susan Key on page 125, and page 129
- Driven into Paradise: The Musical Migration from Nazi Germany to the United States (Roth Family Foundation Book in) by Reinhold Brinkmann on page 199, and page 216
- John Cage: Composed in America by Marjorie Perloff on page 95
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