Nicholas Tawa

The Great American Symphony

Music, the Depression, and War

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Produktbeschreibung

Tawa's musical descriptions are vivid and personal, and invite music lovers and trained musicians alike to turn again to the marvelous and lasting music of this time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 587g
• ISBN-13: 9780253353054
• ISBN-10: 025335305X
• Artikelnr.: 25684363

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Tawa is co-founder of the Sonneck Society, now the Society for American Music. He is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
1. Preliminaries
Attitudes
The Times
Symphonism Ascendant
The Symphony's Public Role
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. American Symphonies after 1950
The Symphony in the Leanest Years
The Symphony after 1990
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index