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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Biography, Music |
Document Type: | Book, Sound Recording |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Barrymore Laurence Scherer |
ISBN: | 9781843791171 184379117X |
OCLC Number: | 1113473568 |
Description: | ix, 237 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, music, portraits (black and white) ; 24 cm + 2 audio CDs. |
Contents: | [CD1] Beautiful dreamer / Stephen Collins Foster -- Niagara / William Henry Fry -- La gallina (The hen), op. 53 / Louis Moreau Gottschalk -- Suite No. 2 "Indian", op. 48. IV. Dirge / Edward MacDowell -- Melody for violin and piano, op. 44 / Arthur Foote -- Symphony No.2 in B flat, op. 21. II. Allegretto scherzando / George Whitefield Chadwick -- Symphony No. 4 in D minor, op. 64. III. South (Allegretto giocoso) / Henry Kimball Hadley -- Piano concerto in C sharp minor, op. 45. III. Largo / Amy Beach -- Three preludes. Prelude No. 2 / Charles Tomlinson Griffes -- The unanswered question / Charles Ives -- Hands across the sea / John Philip Sousa -- Maple leaf rag / Scott Joplin -- An American in Paris / George Gershwin [CD2] Wild men's dance (danse sauvage / Leo Ornstein -- Irish suite for string piano and small orchestra. Movement 1. The banshee / Henry Cowell -- Symphony for five instruments. III. Presto / George Antheil -- Synthetic waltzes / Virgil Thomson -- Three songs. No. 1, Rat riddles / Ruth Crawford Seeger -- Quiet city / Aaron Copland -- Symphony No. 9. I. "We, the people" / Roy Harris -- Vanessa. Intermezzo / Samuel Barber -- Symphony No. 2. II. Allegro vivo / David Diamond -- Totem ancestor / John Cage -- Toccata for violin and player piano / Conlon Nancarrow -- I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky. Act II, No. 23. Finale / John Adams -- Symphony No. 1 "Jeremiah". II. Profanation / Leonard Bernstein -- Violin concerto. Introduction / George Rochberg -- Symphony No. 3. Movement 4 / Philip Glass -- Rituals for five percussionists and orchestra. IV. Contests / Ellen Taaffe Zwilich |
Responsibility: | by Barrymore Laurence Scherer. |
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