Reflections on American music : the twentieth century and the new millennium : a collection of essays presented in honor of the College Music Society / and co-edited by James R. Heintze and Michael Saffle.
| Other author | Heintze, James R. |
| Other author | Saffle, Michael, 1946- |
| Other author | College Music Society. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Pendragon Press, 2000. |
| Description | xvii, 428 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | CMS monographs and bibliographies in American music ; no. 16 Monographs and bibliographies in American music no. 16. ^A377551 |
| Contents | About a book called "Reflections on American music" / Michael Saffle and James R. Heintze -- Part I. Concerning the College Music Society. American music and the College Music Society: an introduction / Dale A. Olsen -- Facilitating learning: the role of the College Music Society / Barbara English Maris -- Is there a future for the traditions of music and music teaching in our colleges and universities? / Leon Botstein -- The rewaking / William Carlos Williams -- Part II. The twentieth century and the new millennium. From "Winter music": a composer's journal / John Luther Adams -- Music at the millennium: America, the world, and the new generation / David Amram -- Medievalism in American musical life / Elizabeth Aubrey -- Blending choirs: a new paradigm for high school choirs with odd numbers and strange schedules / Barbara W. Baker -- Music publishing in America / Arnold Broido -- Classical music criticism: crises and hopes / Scott Cantrell -- Music theory and progressive rock style analysis: on the threshold of art and amplification / John S. Cotner -- The sounds of silents: an interview with Carl Davis / Carl Davis and John C. Tibbetts -- American choral music at the millennium / David P. DeVenney -- The music we've called jazz / Ethel Ennis and Earl Arnett -- The twenty-first-century maestro / JoAnn Falletta -- Public-school music education in the twentieth century / Charles L. Gary -- The invisible art: new music in America / Bob Goldfarb -- Music librarianship: 70 years back and 70 years forward / Jane Gottlieb -- Will classical music remain a vital force in our culture? / Gary Graffman -- A proposal for artist-owned recordings and a university-based music distribution network / Marnie Hall -- And the music goes 'round: an interview with John Kander / John Kander and John C. Tibbetts -- American music historiography yesterday and today / William Kearns -- Challenges and visions: reflections on American church music / Marilyn A. Kielniarz -- Foot notes: tap in the twentieth century / Ann Kilkelly -- The Blues - past and future: an interview with B. B. King / B. B. King and William R. Ferris -- Jazz, now and always / Howard Mandel -- Globalization, culturation, and transculturation in American music: from cultural pop to transcultural art / Dale A. Olsen -- A case for continuity / Jerold Ottley -- They're playing my song: performance rights in the twenty-first century / Frances W. Preston -- Confessions of a New Orleans jazz archivist / Bruce Boyd Raeburn -- Cultural outreach through music in community-college education / Elizabeth C. Ramirez -- The American century: remembering the past, contemplating the future / Elliott Schwartz -- Continental harmony: a community-based celebration of the American millennial year / Patricia A. Shifferd -- Finding our way back home: tonality in the twenty-first century / Robert Sirota -- Kurt Weill's Americana: the open road to the future / Jack Sullivan -- Performing-rights collectives: dinosaurs of the new millennium? / William Velez -- Music theory and pedagogy before and after the millennium / John White -- Coming of age: reflections on Black music scholarship / Josephine R. B. Wright -- "A closed fist" from Spirals (for violin, viola, and cello) / Judith Lang Zaimont. |
| Abstract | The twentieth century - also called the "American century" by thousands of historians and artists around the world - has brought with it untold musical innovations: the popularization of ragtime and the blues, the birth and dissemination of jazz, gospel, and rock, the transmission via radio of music around the world, the transformation of sound recording from primitive cylinders and shellac disks to digital sound, the incorporation of film music into motion pictures, the rise (and decline) of twelve-tone techniques among American composers, the widespread use of music in advertising, the institution of programs that have made music education available to children throughout the United States. And so on. This book presents both the opinions of more than forty historians, theorists, composers, conductors, instrumentalists, singers, librarians, archivists, ethnomusicologists, music-business executives, schoolteachers, and experts of other kinds on the progress of music during the last hundred years and speculations by these individual son what may be in store for us in the opening decades of the "new millennium" and the twenty-first century. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 00047899 |
| ISBN | 1576470709 |