American Stravinsky : The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938
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American Stravinsky : The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938

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American Stravinsky : The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938

About this book

One of the country's most enduringly successful composers, Aaron Copland created a distinctively American style and aesthetic in works for a diversity of genres and mediums, including ballet, opera, and film. Also active as a critic, mentor, advocate, and concert organizer, he played a decisive role in the growth of serious music in the Americas in the twentieth century. In The American Stravinsky, Gayle Murchison closely analyzes selected works to discern the specific compositional techniques Copland used, and to understand the degree to which they derived from European models, particularly the influence of Igor Stravinsky. Murchison examines how Copland both Americanized these models and made them his own, thereby finding his own compositional voice. Murchison also discusses Copland's aesthetics of music and his ideas about its purpose and social function.

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Information

Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9780472099849
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Tables
  3. List of Musical Examples
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter One: Scherzo humoristique (Cat and Mouse): Copland’s American Petrushka and His Debt to Stravinsky
  6. Chapter Two: Boulanger and Compositional Maturity
  7. Chapter Three: Popular Music and Jazz: Authentic or Ersatz?
  8. Chapter Four: Paris and Jazz: French Neoclassicism and the New Modern American Music
  9. Chapter Five: Back in the United States: Popular Music, Jazz, and the New American Music
  10. Chapter Six: European Influence beyond Stravinsky and Les Six: Hába and Schoenberg
  11. Chapter Seven: Toward a New National Music during the 1930s: Copland’s Populism, Accessible Style, and Folk and Popular Music
  12. Chapter Eight: Copland’s Journey Left
  13. Chapter Nine: “Folk” Music and the Popular Front: El Salón México
  14. Chapter Ten: Billy the Kid
  15. Conclusion: A Vision for American Music . . .
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. Blank Page

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