Perspectives on American composers / edited by Benjamin Boretz and Edward T. Cone.
| Other author | Boretz, Benjamin compiler. |
| Other author | Cone, Edward T. compiler. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | [1st ed.]. |
| Publication Info | New York : W. W. Norton, [1971] |
| Description | x, 268 pages : music ; 20 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | The Perspectives of new music series Norton library ; no. 549 Perspectives of new music series. ^A648245 Norton library ; no. 549. ^A910560 |
| Contents | Ives' quarter-tone impressions / Howard Boatwright -- Charles Ives' quotations: manner or substance? / Dennis Marshall -- The liberation of sound / Edgard Varèse -- Conversation with Varèse / Gunther Schuller -- Edgard Varèse: a few observations of his music / Milton Babbitt -- "Open rather than bounded" / Chou Wen-chung -- A Varèse chronology / Chou Wen-chung -- Roger Sessions: in honor of his sixty-fifth birthday / Andrew Imbrie -- Conversation with Roger Sessions / Edward T. Cone -- To the editor / Roger Sessions -- A composer's influences / Ernst Krenek -- Conversation with Aaron Copland / Edward T. Cone -- Copland on the serial road: an analysis of Connotations / Peter Evans -- Conversation with Walter Piston / Peter Westergaard -- Walter Piston: for his seventieth birthday / Clifford Taylor -- Stefan Wolpe: for his sixtieth birthday / Edward Levy -- A conversation with Steuermann / Gunther Schuller -- Elliott Carter and the postwar composers / Martin Boykan -- Expressionism and American music / Elliott Carter -- Arthur Berger: the composer as mannerist / John MacIvor Perkins -- Aspects of tonality in the music of Ross Lee Finney / Henry Onderdonk. |
| Abstract | This is a book by and about composers, but composers as musicians, not as personalities. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 79128039 |
| ISBN | 0393021556 |