Making Music for Modern Dance

Collaboration in the Formative Years of a New American Art
Herausgeber: Teck, Katherine

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Produktbeschreibung

Making Music for Modern Dance is a fascinating collection of source readings that offer first-hand accounts of musical collaboration for early modern dance in America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 157mm x 239mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780199743216
• ISBN-10: 0199743215
• Artikelnr.: 40225956

Autorenporträt

A former studio musician for dance, Katherine Teck is the author of three previous books about musical collaboration for modern dance and ballet. She has also taught college dance department courses in music.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Threads of America's Heritage in Music and Dance
* Part One: Musical Collaboration for a New Era in Dance
* Overview: The Question of Using Old Music for New Dance
* 1. Émile Jaques-Dalcroze. How to Revive Dancing Music and the Dancer
* 2. Isadora Duncan. Dancing to Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
* 3. Baird Hastings. Music for Isadora Duncan's Dance
* 4. Helen Caldwell. The Dance Poems of Michio Ito: The White Peacock,
to Music by Griffes
* 5. Denishawn program. America and the Dance Music Visualization
* 6. Norman Cazden. On Dancing to Bach: Humphrey-Weidman Programs
* 7. Ted Shawn. American Music and Composers: What Dancers Need
* Part Two: Creative Procedures and Ingredients
* Overview: Some Challenges of Collaboration, and Composers Debate What
Works
* 8. Louis Horst. Music and Dance: The New Generation's Change in
Methods
* 9. Henry Gilfond. Louis Horst
* 10. Gertrude Lippincott. A Quiet Genius Himself: A Dance Teacher's
Tribute to Louis Horst
* 11. Wallingford Riegger. Synthesizing Music and the Dance
* 12. Ernestine Stodelle. Sensing the Dancer's Impulse: A Dancer Talks
about the Art of Composer-Accompanists
* 13. Vivian Fine. My Scores for Modern Dance: Tragedy and Comedy
* 14. Doris Humphrey. The Race of Life: My Side of the Story The
Relationship of Music and Dance
* 15. Lehman Engel. Under Way: Composing for Martha Graham Details of
Contemporary Collaboration
* 16. Henry Cowell. Relating Music and Concert Dance: An Idea for
Elastic Form
* 17. Norman Lloyd. Sound-Companion for Dance: Henry Cowell's Talent
* 18. Norman Lloyd. Composing for the Dance: A Retrospective Overview
of Procedures; Personal Experiences; and Advice to Collaborators
* Part Three: Towards New "American" Styles
* Overview: Defining "American" Music; Common Musical Concerns of
Ballet and Modern Dance
* 19. Verna Arvey. The Cosmopolitan Scene of the 1920s and '30s:
Avant-Garde Experiments; Symphonic Ballet Scores; Jazz
* 20. Virgil Thomson. The Theatrical Thirties
* 21. Katherine Teck: Virgil Thomson's Later Reflections
* 22. Dance Observer. Editorial: Dance and American Composers Drawing
Upon Folk Music and War-Time Patriotism
* 23. Woody Guthrie. People Dancing
* 24. Nora Guthrie. Sophie Maslow and Woody
* 25. Agnes de Mille. Music for Martha
* 26. Aaron Copland. The Commission for Appalachian Spring
* 27. Gail Levin. Aaron Copland's America
* 28. Richard Philp. Appalachian Spring: An Appreciation 54 Years Later
Building on the Horton Experience
* 29. Larry Warren and Others. Lester Horton: Of Money, Music, and
Motivation
* 30. Katherine Teck. Kenneth Klauss: Musician for California Dancers
* 31. Katherine Teck. Carmen de Lavallade: Dancing to Many Musical
Styles
* 32. Alvin Ailey. Instructions: How to Play the Drums
* 33. Jennifer Dunning. Alvin Ailey's Revelations
* 34. Alvin Ailey with A. Peter Bailey. How Revelations Came to Be
* Part Four: Instruments, Technology, and the Avant-Garde
* Overview: Expanding Timbre Possibilities with Percussion,
Vocalization, Electronic Instruments, and the Sounds Around Us
* 35. Franziska Boas. Percussion Music and Its Relation to the Modern
Dance
* 36. Henry Cowell. East Indian Tala Music
* 37. Lehman Engel. Choric Sound for the Dance
* 38. John Cage. Goal: New Music, New Dance
* 39. Otto Luening. Electronic Music for Doris Humphrey's Theatre Piece
No. 2
* 40. Alwin Nikolais. My Total Theater Concept
* 41. John Cage. Experimental Music
* 42. John Cage. Communication
* 43. Carolyn Brown. Dancing with the Avant-Garde
* Part Five: Well-Springs of Creative Collaboration
* Overview: Diverse Methods and Aesthetic Ideas
* 44. Leonard Bernstein. "Fun" in Music and the Dance
* 45. Paul Taylor. Why I Make Dances
* 46. Carlos Surinach. My Intention to Serve Spanish Ballet Serves
American Modern Dancers Instead
* 47. Lou Harrison. Meditations on Melodies, Modes, Emotion, and
Creation
* 48. Lucia Dlugoszewski. New Music for the Dance: Choices Open to
Collaborators at Mid-Century
* Part Six: Master Artists Speak to Future Generations
* Overview: Postwar Trends, and Music in the Training of Dancers
* 49. Erick Hawkins. My Love Affair With Music
* 50. Bessie Schönberg. Finding Your Own Voice
* 51. Paul Draper. Music and Dancing
* 52. José Limón. Dancers Are Musicians Are Dancers
* Afterword: Creativity in One's Own Time
* Appendix: Checklist of Composers
* Notes, Commentary, and Recommended Resources
* Bibliographic Essay
* Index