Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vii, 270 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520232526
,
0520232518
,
0520928210
,
1597348570
,
1417523913
,
9780520232525
,
9780520232518
,
9780520928213
,
9781597348577
,
9781417523917
Content:
In this collection of essays, distinguished composer, theorist, journalist, and educator Arthur Berger invites us into the vibrant and ever-changing American music scene that has been his home for most of the 20th century
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Berger, Arthur, 1912-2003 Reflections of an American composer Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002
Language:
English
Author information:
Berger, Arthur Victor 1912-2003
