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Record Nr.

UNINA9910725066003321

Autore

Murchison Gayle Minetta

Titolo

The American Stravinsky : the style and aesthetics of Copland's new American music, the early works, 1921-1938 / / Gayle Murchison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

0-472-12504-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 285 pages)

Disciplina

780.904

Soggetti

Music - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-275) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro; Contents; List of Tables; List of Musical Examples; Introduction; Chapter One: Scherzo humoristique (Cat and Mouse): Copland's American Petrushka and His Debt to Stravinsky; Chapter Two: Boulanger and Compositional Maturity; Chapter Three: Popular Music and Jazz: Authentic or Ersatz?; Chapter Four: Paris and Jazz: French Neoclassicism and the New Modern American Music; Chapter Five: Back in the United States: Popular Music, Jazz, and the New American Music; Chapter Six: European Influence beyond Stravinsky and Les Six: Hába and Schoenberg Chapter Seven: Toward a New National Music during the 1930s: Copland's Populism, Accessible Style, and Folk and Popular MusicChapter Eight: Copland's Journey Left; Chapter Nine: "Folk" Music and the Popular Front: El Salón México; Chapter Ten: Billy the Kid; Conclusion: A Vision for American Music . . .; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.