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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | Arthur Berger; Arthur Berger; Arthur Berger; Arthur Berger; Arthur Berger |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Arthur Berger |
ISBN: | 0520232518 9780520232518 |
OCLC Number: | 49698957 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | vii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Trends in twentieth-century American composition. Composers and their audience in the thirties ; Nationalism ; Is music in decline? ; Rendezvous with Apollo : form is feeling ; Reinventing the past : pastiche, collage, or "criticism"? ; Serialism : composer as theorist ; Rapprochement or friendly takeover? ; Postmodern music -- Writing about music. Virgil Thomson and the press ; Music on my beat ; PNM and the Ph. D. ; A tale of two critics : Rosenfeld and Haggin -- Aesthetics and musical analysis. Do we hear what we say we hear? ; New linguistic modes and the new theory ; The octatonic scale -- Retrospective. Backstage at the opera ; A tale of two conductors : Koussevitzky and Mitropoulos ; From my diary : brief encounters. |
Responsibility: | Arthur Berger. |
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Abstract:
In this collection of essays, distinguished composer, theorist, journalist and educator Arthur Berger invites us into the vibrant and ever-changing American music scene that has been his home for most of the 20th century.
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