The American Stravinsky The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938

One of the country's most enduringly successful composers, Aaron Copland created a distinctively American style and aesthetic in works for a diversity of genres and mediums, including ballet, opera, and film. Also active as a critic, mentor, advocate, and concert organizer, he played a decisive...

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Autor principal: Murchison, Gayle Minetta (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press 2012.
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  • Scherzo humoristique (Cat and mouse) : Copland's American Petrushka and his debt to Stravinsky
  • Boulanger and compositional maturity
  • Popular music and jazz : authentic or Ersatz?
  • Paris and jazz : French neoclassicism and the new modern American music
  • Back in the United States : popular music, jazz, and the new American music
  • European influence beyond Stravinsky and les Six : Hába and Schoenberg
  • Toward a new national music during the 1930s : Copland's populism, accessible style, and folk and popular music
  • Copland's journey left
  • "Folk" music and the popular front : El salón Mexico
  • Billy the Kid
  • A vision for American music-- .