The new music, 1900-1960 / Aaron Copland.

Author/creator Copland, Aaron
Format Book
EditionRevised and enlarged edition.
Publication InfoNew York : W. W. Norton, [1968]
Description194 pages : music ; 21 cm
Subjects

Uniform titleOur new music
Contents Survey of contemporary European composers (1900-1960). The argument -- Preliminaries -- The background - late nineteenth century. Nationalism ; Mussorgsky's realism ; The impressionism of Debussy ; The late Romantics: Mahler, Strauss, Scriabin, Faure, Sibelius -- The Foreground - before 1914. Schoenberg's expressionism ; Stravinsky's dynamism ; Bela Bartok -- Music between the wars (1918-1939). Music after the first world war ; Ravel and Roussel ; Satie and "Les six" ; The lyricism of Milhaud ; The jazz interlude ; The neoclassic movement ; The neoclassic influence ; The depression years ; Dodecaphonic developments ; Stravinsky's conversion -- Composers in America. Composers without a halo -- New music in the U. S. A. -- The Ives case -- Roy Harris -- Sessions and Piston -- Thomson and Blitzstein -- Comoposer from Mexico: Carlos Chavez -- Composer from Brooklyn: an autobiographical sketch -- The present day. The generation of the fifties -- The music of chance -- New electronic media.
Abstract The composer provides an introduction to the formative musical ideas of our century, and a survey of recent and current trends.
General notePreviously published in 1941 under title: Our new music.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 68010878

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