Copland on music.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1960.Edition: [1st ed.]Description: 280 p. 22 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 780.8
LOC classification:
  • ML63 .C48
Contents:
Section One -- 1. Three talks -- The pleasure of music -- Creativity in America -- Music as an aspect of the human spirit -- 2. Five personalities -- The conductor: Serge Koussevitzky -- The teacher: Nadia Boulanger -- The composer: Igor Stravinsky -- The critic: Paul Rosenfeld -- The pianist: William Kapell -- 3. Four masters -- At the thought of Mozart -- Berlioz today -- Liszt as pioneer -- Fauré Centennial in America: 1945 -- 4. From a composer's journal Section Two: The twenties and the thirties: How it seemed then -- 1. The younger generation of American composers: 1926-59 -- 1926: America's young men of promise -- 1936: America's young men -- ten years later -- 1949: The new "school" of American composers -- 1959: Postscript for the generation of the fifties -- 2. European festivals and premières: Zuriich 1926, Baden-Baden 1927, Paris 1928, London 1931, Berlin 1932 -- 3. The composers of South America: 1941 Section Three: The Reviewing stand -- 1. Music by : Darius Milhaud (1947), Benjamin Britten (1947), Stefan Wolpe (1948), Leon Kirchner (1950), William Schuman (1951) ; Book about : Virgil Thomson's Musical state (1939), Schönberg and his school (1949), The life and music of Bartók (1953) Section Four: Occasional pieces -- "Are my ears on wrong?": a polemic -- Interpreters and new music -- The dilemma of our symphony orchestras -- Shop talk: on the notation of rhythm.
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Section One -- 1. Three talks -- The pleasure of music -- Creativity in America -- Music as an aspect of the human spirit -- 2. Five personalities -- The conductor: Serge Koussevitzky -- The teacher: Nadia Boulanger -- The composer: Igor Stravinsky -- The critic: Paul Rosenfeld -- The pianist: William Kapell -- 3. Four masters -- At the thought of Mozart -- Berlioz today -- Liszt as pioneer -- Fauré Centennial in America: 1945 -- 4. From a composer's journal Section Two: The twenties and the thirties: How it seemed then -- 1. The younger generation of American composers: 1926-59 -- 1926: America's young men of promise -- 1936: America's young men -- ten years later -- 1949: The new "school" of American composers -- 1959: Postscript for the generation of the fifties -- 2. European festivals and premières: Zuriich 1926, Baden-Baden 1927, Paris 1928, London 1931, Berlin 1932 -- 3. The composers of South America: 1941 Section Three: The Reviewing stand -- 1. Music by : Darius Milhaud (1947), Benjamin Britten (1947), Stefan Wolpe (1948), Leon Kirchner (1950), William Schuman (1951) ; Book about : Virgil Thomson's Musical state (1939), Schönberg and his school (1949), The life and music of Bartók (1953) Section Four: Occasional pieces -- "Are my ears on wrong?": a polemic -- Interpreters and new music -- The dilemma of our symphony orchestras -- Shop talk: on the notation of rhythm.