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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Barrymore L Scherer; Stephen Collins Foster; Louis Moreau Gottschalk; Edward MacDowell; Arthur Foote; Henry Kimball Hadley |
ISBN: | 9781402210679 1402210671 |
OCLC Number: | 237131974 |
Description: | 247 Seiten : Illustrationen + CD (12 cm) |
Contents: | Introduction: The dawn of American classical music -- From founding through revolution -- The awakening -- Transplanting romantic European traditions -- Into the twentieth century: the traditionalists -- American impressionists and folklorists -- New England iconoclast: Charles Ives -- From bandstand to Broadway: the 1890s to 1930s -- The earlier struggles of American opera -- Modernism elbows its way into the concert hall -- Europeans abroad -- Between the World Wars: Americans struggle to be heard -- Lighter hearts of the 1920s and 1930s -- Perpetuating the romantic tradition -- America goes to war: the 1940s -- Exploring the frontiers of sound -- The melting-pot of American opera and musical theatre -- Anxiety's son: Leonard Bernstein -- The age of anxiety: music in the Cold War era -- Making the most of minimalism -- Today and into tomorrow: old glory and new -- Conclusion. |
Other Titles: | Beautiful dreamter. Gallina. Suiten, op. 48. Melody. Sinfonien, op. 64 <3. Satz> |
Responsibility: | by Barrymore Laurence Scherer. |
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