Neoclassical Music In America
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Neoclassical Music In America
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Author : R. James Tobin
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2014-07-02
Neoclassical Music In America written by R. James Tobin and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-02 with Music categories.
From the 1920s to the 1950s, neoclassicism was one of the dominant movements in American music. Today this music is largely in eclipse, mostly absent in performance and even from accounts of music history, in spite of—and initially because of—its adherence to an expanded tonality. No previous book has focused on the nature and scope of this musical tradition. Neoclassical Music in America: Voices of Clarity and Restraint makes clear what neoclassicism was, how it emerged in America, and what happened to it. Music reviewer and scholar, R. James Tobin argues that efforts to define musical neoclassicism as a style largely fail because of the stylistic diversity of the music that fall within its scope. However, neoclassicists as different from one another as the influential Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith did have a classical aesthetic in common, the basic characteristics of which extend to other neoclassicists This study focuses, in particular, on a group of interrelated neoclassical American composers who came to full maturity in the 1940s. These included Harvard professor Walter Piston, who had studied in France in the 1920s; Harold Shapero, the most traditional of the group; Irving Fine and Arthur Berger, his colleagues at Brandeis; Lukas Foss, later an experimentalist composer whose origins lay in neoclassicism of the 1940s; Alexei Haieff, and Ingolf Dahl, both close associates of Stravinsky; and others. Tobin surveys the careers of these figures, drawing especially on early reviews of performances before offering his own critical assessment of individual works. Adventurous collectors of recordings, performing musicians, concert and broadcasting programmers, as well as music and cultural historians and those interested in musical aesthetics, will find much of interest here. Dates of composition, approximate duration of individual works, and discographies add to the work’s reference value.
A History Of American Classical Music
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Author : Barrymore Laurence Scherer
language : en
Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks
Release Date : 2006-11
A History Of American Classical Music written by Barrymore Laurence Scherer and has been published by Naxos Audiobooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11 with Music categories.
Barrymore Laurence Scherer, a distinguished American author, leads the reader through an enthralling history, illustrating the importance of not only renowned names, such as Gershwin, Copland, Bernstein, Joplin and Sousa, but also those formally in the shadows, such as William Henry Fry and Alan Hovhaness. And, of course, we even step into Broadway for that most American step-child of opera: the musical. This development, tracked largely by key composers, is set against America's tempestuous history, putting neatly into context the achievements of the time. And with the words come 2 CDs of carefully chosen music to provide a uniquely rounded representation of this field. Furthermore, the purchaser of the book is given access to a dedicated website which offers even more music to listen to, as well as other bonus material.
Neoclassicism In Music
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Author : Scott Messing
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Neoclassicism In Music written by Scott Messing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Music categories.
Modern American Music
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Author : Otto Karolyi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Modern American Music written by Otto Karolyi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Music categories.
A survey of 20th-century American classical music. Beginning with Charles Ives, the book's course follows the development of music in its several styles, from the neo-Romanticism of Walter Piston and Aaron Copland, to the uncompromising innovations of Edgard Varese and John Cage.
The History Of American Classical Music
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Author : John Warthen Struble
language : en
Publisher: Facts on File
Release Date : 1995
The History Of American Classical Music written by John Warthen Struble and has been published by Facts on File this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Music categories.
Devoted to both the history of American classical music and its composers, this sweeping 300-year survey examines all the influences that shaped the music tradition of this country.
Musical Nationalism
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Author : Alan Levy
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1983-05-19
Musical Nationalism written by Alan Levy and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-05-19 with Music categories.
Gems Of Exquisite Beauty
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Author : Peter Mercer-Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-23
Gems Of Exquisite Beauty written by Peter Mercer-Taylor and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-23 with Music categories.
In the decades leading up to the Civil War, most Americans probably encountered European classical music primarily through hymn tunes. Hymnody was the most popular and commercially successful genre of the antebellum period in the United States, and the unquenchable thirst for new tunes to sing led to a phenomenon largely forgotten today: in their search for fresh material, editors lifted hundreds of tunes from the works of major classical composers to use as settings of psalms and hymns. The few that remain popular today millions have sung "Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee" to Beethoven and "Hark, The Herald Angels Sing" to Mendelssohn are vestiges of one of the most distinctive trends in antebellum music-making. Gems of Exquisite Beauty is the first in-depth study of the historical rise and fall of this adaptation practice, its artistic achievements, and its place in nineteenth-century American musical life. It traces the contributions of pioneering figures like Arthur Clifton and the impact of bestsellers like the Handel and Haydn Society Collection, which helped turn Lowell Mason into America's most influential musician. By telling the tales of these hymns and those who brought them into the world, author Peter Mercer-Taylor reveals a central part of the history of how the American public first came to meet and creatively engage with Europe's rich musical practices.
Neoclassical Gestures
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Author : Anna Wittstruck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Neoclassical Gestures written by Anna Wittstruck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
"Eighteenth-century music is, in one sense, all dance music." Igor Stravinsky's words remind us that the sublimation of social dance into art music constitutes the lynchpin of classical forms that he, like many other neoclassical composers, returned to after the First World War. After Theodor W. Adorno positioned Stravinsky as a regressive antipode to Schoenberg the Progressive, aligning the former's music with reactionary, even fascist ideological tendencies, "neoclassicism" has had to shoulder disparate meanings and derogatory connotations. The term's checkered reception history, which includes classical appropriations by totalitarian art, brings together culture, politics and aesthetics in volatile constellations with one another. An event-based, dance-centered approach to studying what I call neoclassical gestures -- musical, choreographic and political elements that refer backward and outward through the amalgamation of past and present cultural allusion -- presents an opportunity to move beyond the historical moment of Adorno's polemic by contextualizing neoclassicism's community-forming potential while, at the same time, emphasizing its stylistic and ideological heterogeneity. My dissertation both broadens and qualifies the phenomenon of neoclassicism in music by investigating three interwar ballet productions: Francis Poulenc's Les Biches (1924), Kurt Weill's Die sieben Todsünden (1933), and Constant Lambert's Horoscope (1938). Designed to explore diverse European neoclassicisms through the lens of music-dance relationships, these case studies seek to capture the shifting perspectives and social factors that defined the cultural landscape during this period. Of key significance to this intermedial analysis is the mutable role played by irony. By showing how the diverse uses of popular dance by interwar composers went hand in hand with classical emulation and aspirations toward classicality, this dissertation establishes the terms for a reconciliation between neoclassical repertoire and the modernist canon.
Classical Music In America
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Author : Joseph Horowitz
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2005-03-15
Classical Music In America written by Joseph Horowitz and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-15 with History categories.
An award-winning scholar and leading authority on American symphonic culture argues that classical music in the United States is peculiarly performance-driven, and he traces a musical trajectory rising to its peak at the close of the 19th century and receding after World War I.
One Hundred Years Of Music In America
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Author : Paul Henry Lang
language : en
Publisher: New York : G. Schirmer
Release Date : 1961
One Hundred Years Of Music In America written by Paul Henry Lang and has been published by New York : G. Schirmer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Music categories.
A comprehensive report on every aspect of American musical life, written by seventeen specialists in various fields.