Format:
vii, 270 p.
,
ill.
,
24 cm
ISBN:
0520232518
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Trends in twentieth-century American composition. Composers and their audience in the thirties ; Nationalism ; Is music in decline? ; Rendezvous with Apollo : form is feeling ; Reinventing the past : pastiche, collage, or "criticism"? ; Serialism : composer as theorist ; Rapprochement or friendly takeover? ; Postmodern music -- Writing about music. Virgil Thomson and the press ; Music on my beat ; PNM and the Ph. D. ; A tale of two critics : Rosenfeld and Haggin -- Aesthetics and musical analysis. Do we hear what we say we hear? ; New linguistic modes and the new theory ; The octatonic scale -- Retrospective. Backstage at the opera ; A tale of two conductors : Koussevitzky and Mitropoulos ; From my diary : brief encounters
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
USA
;
Neue Musik
;
USA
;
Musik
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
USA
;
Musik
;
Geschichte 1930-2000
;
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal042/2002006432.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/ucal052/2002006432.html
Author information:
Berger, Arthur Victor 1912-2003
