[PDF] Ives And Copland eBook

Author : Daniel Felsenfeld
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781574670981

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Ives and Copeland did not influence each other, but they each helped to define and build a place for American music and composers in the pantheon of classical music, which had been European-dominated until that time. This CD with book lays a foundation for a broader knowledge and understanding of American music in the 20th century overall. 1 CD.

Author : Joseph Horowitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 28,9 MB
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393881253

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A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"—how it got to be that way and what can be done about it. In 1893 the composer Antonín Dvorák prophesied a “great and noble school” of American classical music based on the “negro melodies” he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while Black music would foster popular genres known the world over, it never gained a foothold in the concert hall. Black composers found few opportunities to have their works performed, and white composers mainly rejected Dvorák’s lead. Joseph Horowitz ranges throughout American cultural history, from Frederick Douglass and Huckleberry Finn to George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and the work of Ralph Ellison, searching for explanations. Challenging the standard narrative for American classical music fashioned by Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, he looks back to literary figures—Emerson, Melville, and Twain—to ponder how American music can connect with a “usable past.” The result is a new paradigm that makes room for Black composers, including Harry Burleigh, Nathaniel Dett, William Levi Dawson, and Florence Price, while giving increased prominence to Charles Ives and George Gershwin. Dvorák’s Prophecy arrives in the midst of an important conversation about race in America—a conversation that is taking place in music schools and concert halls as well as capitols and boardrooms. As George Shirley writes in his foreword to the book, “We have been left unprepared for the current cultural moment. [Joseph Horowitz] explains how we got there [and] proposes a bigger world of American classical music than what we have known before. It is more diverse and more equitable. And it is more truthful.”

Author : David C Paul
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252094697

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American composer Charles Ives (1874–1954) has gone from being a virtual unknown to become one of the most respected and lauded composers in American music. In this sweeping survey of intellectual and musical history, David C. Paul tells the new story of how Ives's music was shaped by shifting conceptions of American identity within and outside of musical culture, charting the changes in the reception of Ives across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. Paul focuses on the critics, composers, performers, and scholars whose contributions were most influential in shaping the critical discourse on Ives, many of them marquee names of American musical culture themselves, including Henry Cowell, Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, and Leonard Bernstein. Paul explores both how Ives positioned his music amid changing philosophical and aesthetic currents and how others interpreted his contributions to American music. Although Ives's initial efforts to find a public in the early twenties attracted a few devotees, the resurgence of interest in the American literary past during the thirties made a concert staple of his "Concord" Sonata, a work dedicated to nineteenth-century transcendentalist writers. Paul shows how Ives was subsequently deployed as an icon of American freedom during the early Cold War period and how he came to be instigated at the head of a line of "American maverick" composers. Paul also examines why a recent cadre of scholars has beset the composer with Gilded Age social anxieties. By embedding Ives' reception within the changing developments of a wide range of fields including intellectual history, American studies, literature, musicology, and American politics and society in general, Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an Iconic Composer greatly advances our understanding of Ives and his influence on nearly a century of American culture.

Author : Daniel Felsenfeld
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 2008-11-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781437963601

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Charles Ives and Aaron Copland are two composers whose works define what is now considered to be the ¿American sound¿ in classical music. Though they couldn¿t have been more different in disposition, these two brilliant minds helped shape the musical consciousness of an entire era. This guide explains -- in vivid, picturesque detail -- why we still listen with admiration to the work of these men, and how their personalities and the era in which they lived affected their music. The accompanying CD includes a sampling of their music from masterworks such as ¿Appalachian Spring¿ and ¿The Unanswered Question¿ to less common (yet every bit as worthwhile) gems. Guided listenings deliver a comprehensive account of exactly how the pieces work.

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 1429932880

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Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

Author : Peter Dickinson
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780851159027

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A mine of information for both general and specialist readers about the life and work of one of America's greatest composers.

Author : Howard Pollack
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252069000

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Features the biography of Aaron Copland, his life, and his music.

Author : Charles Ives
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 2007-06-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520932285

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This authoritative volume of 453 letters written by and to composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) provides unparalleled insight into one of the most extraordinary and paradoxical careers in American music history. The most comprehensive collection of Ives's correspondence in print, this book opens a direct window on Ives's complex personality and his creative process. Though Ives spent much of his career out of the mainstream of professional music-making, he corresponded with a surprisingly large group of musicians and critics, including John J. Becker, Henry Bellamann, Leonard Bernstein, John Cage, Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, Ingolf Dahl, Walter Damrosch, Lehman Engel, Clifton J. Furness, Lou Harrison, Bernard Herrmann, John Kirkpatrick, Serge Koussevitzky, John Lomax, Francesco Malipiero, Radiana Pazmor, Paul Rosenfeld, Carl Ruggles, E. Robert Schmitz, Nicolas Slonimsky, and Peter Yates.

Author : Aaron Copland
Publisher :
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781576471906

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This candid, colorful memoir as told in the composer's own voice begins with Copland's Brooklyn childhood and takes us through his years in Paris, the creation of early works, years as the leader of young composers in New York City, Tanglewood and around the world."

Author : Vivian Perlis
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,18 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252070785

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Through their reminiscences, Ives's relatives, friends, colleagues, and associates reveal aspects of his life, character, and personality, as well as his musical activities.