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100 1 a| Mellers, Wilfrid,d| 1914-2008.=| ^A546734;

245 10 a| Singing in the wilderness :b| music and ecology in the twentieth century /c| Wilfrid Mellers.;

300 a| ix, 211 pages ;c| 24 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

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338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 00 t| The forest within.t| Wagner, Schoenberg, and the twilight of "Europe" --t| A Village Romeo and Juliet as a parable of childhood, love, and death --t| Pelleas et Melisande as a parable of relinquishment --t| Tapiola's search for oneness and Cunning Little Vixen as a parable of redemption --t| The forest without.t| Charles Koechlin and le Foret Feerique --t| Darius Milhaud's Le Bouef sur le toit --t| The jungle and the city.t| Heitor Villa-Lobos in Rio and Paris --t| Carlos Chavez in Mexico City and New York --t| Mountains and machines in new-old worlds.t| Carl Ruggles in New England, Edgard Varese in Old France and New York --t| Harry Partch in the desert, Steve Reich in the city --t| Peter Sculthorpe in the Austrailian outback --t| Into an old new world.t| Duke Ellington as black urban folk musician, art composer, and showbiz man --t| Porgy and Bess as a parable of restitution.;

520 a| Displaying the broad erudition and intellectual agility that have informed a lifetime of scholarship, the author offers a set of diverse reflections on how Western art music illuminates the shifting relationship between humankind and the natural world.;

650 0 a| Musicy| 20th centuryx| History and criticism.=| ^A147357;

650 0 a| Nature in music.=| ^A476716;

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Singing in the wilderness : music and ecology in the twentieth century / Wilfrid Mellers.

Author/creator	Mellers, Wilfrid
Other author	Mellers, Wilfrid, 1914-2008
Format	Book
Publication Info	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2001.
Description	ix, 211 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects	Music--20th century. --History and criticism. Nature in music.

Contents	The forest within. Wagner, Schoenberg, and the twilight of "Europe" -- A Village Romeo and Juliet as a parable of childhood, love, and death -- Pelleas et Melisande as a parable of relinquishment -- Tapiola's search for oneness and Cunning Little Vixen as a parable of redemption -- The forest without. Charles Koechlin and le Foret Feerique -- Darius Milhaud's Le Bouef sur le toit -- The jungle and the city. Heitor Villa-Lobos in Rio and Paris -- Carlos Chavez in Mexico City and New York -- Mountains and machines in new-old worlds. Carl Ruggles in New England, Edgard Varese in Old France and New York -- Harry Partch in the desert, Steve Reich in the city -- Peter Sculthorpe in the Austrailian outback -- Into an old new world. Duke Ellington as black urban folk musician, art composer, and showbiz man -- Porgy and Bess as a parable of restitution.
Abstract	Displaying the broad erudition and intellectual agility that have informed a lifetime of scholarship, the author offers a set of diverse reflections on how Western art music illuminates the shifting relationship between humankind and the natural world.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	00011646
ISBN	0252025296 (cloth : alk. paper)

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