The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume V

The Symphony in the Americas

A. Peter Brown, Brian Hart, A. Peter Brown

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9780253067555
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: North American History

Central to the repertoire of Western art music since the 1700s, the symphony has come to be regarded as one of the ultimate compositional challenges.

In his series The Symphonic Repertoire, the late A. Peter Brown explored the symphony in Europe from its origins into the 20th century. In Volume V, Brown's former students and colleagues continue his vision by turning to the symphony in the Western Hemisphere. It examines the work of numerous symphonists active from the early 1800s to the present day and the unique challenges they faced in contributing to the European symphonic tradition. The research adds to an unmatched compendium of knowledge for the student, teacher, performer, and sophisticated amateur.

This much-anticipated fifth volume of The Symphonic Repertoire: The Symphony in the Americas offers a user-friendly, comprehensive history of the symphony genre in the United States and Latin America.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction to the Symphonic Repertoire of the United States and Latin America
• 2. The First Generation of Symphonists in the United States
• 3. The Second New England School and Their Contemporaries
• 4. The Symphonic Works of Charles Ives
• 5. From 1920 to 1950 in the United States: The Symphony in a World Upended
• 6. Forgotten Modernisms: The Symphony in the United States from 1950 to 1970
• 7. The Symphony in South America
• 8. The Symphony in Mexico, Central America, and the Spanish-Speaking Caribbean
• 9. The Symphony in the United States since 1970
• List of Contributors
• Index