Title |
The great American symphony : music, the Depression, and war / Nicholas Tawa. |
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Publisher |
Bloomington : Indiana University Press |
Creation Date |
c2009 |
Notes |
נושא ישן: Symphony - United States - 20th century - history and criticism Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-231) and index. |
Content |
Preliminaries. Attitudes -- The times -- Symphonism ascendant -- The symphony's public role -- Symphonies of the mid- to late thirties. The romantic symphony : Barber -- The spiritual symphony : Hanson -- The all-American symphony : Harris -- The muscular symphony : Schuman -- The civil symphony : Carpenter -- Afterthought : Thomson and Cowell -- Symphonies of the war years. Wartime attitudes -- The commemorative symphony : Antheil -- The aesthetic symphony : Diamond -- The dramatic symphony : Bernstein -- The masterly symphony : Piston -- The ambivalent symphony : Barber -- The theatrical symphony : Blitzstein -- Symphonies of the immediate postwar years. The conservatorial symphony : Moore -- The dynamic symphony : Mennin -- The plain-spoken symphony : Thompson -- The August symphony : Copland -- The self-reliant symphony : Creston -- The knotty symphony : Sessions -- American symphonies after 1950. The symphony in the leanest years -- The symphony after 1990. |
Extent |
xi, 237 pages 25 cm. |
Language |
English |
National Library system number |
990026848880205171 |
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