Reflections of an American composer [[electronic resource] /] / Arthur Berger |
Autore | Berger Arthur <1912-2003.> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
Disciplina | 780/.973 |
Soggetto topico | Music - United States - History and criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
1930s
20th century aaron copland american composers american music art scene autobiography avant garde music biography boretz boston communism composers conductor essays malkin conservatory memoir modernism music composition music criticism music history music theory music musicians nationalism new york nonfiction piano variations popular culture red scare schoenberg short symphony statements stravinsky wpa |
ISBN |
1-59734-857-0
0-520-92821-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Composers and Their Audience in the Thirties -- 2. Nationalism -- 3. Is Music in Decline? -- 4. Rendezvous with Apollo: Form Is Feeling -- 5. Reinventing the Past: Pastiche, Collage, or "Criticism"? -- 6. Serialism: Composer as Theorist -- 7. Rapprochement or Friendly Takeover? -- 8. Postmodern Music -- 9. Virgil Thomson and the Press -- 10. Music on My Beat -- 11. PNM and the Ph.D. -- 12. A Tale of Two Critics: Rosenfeld and Haggin -- 13. Do We Hear What We Say We Hear? -- 14. New Linguistic Modes and the New Theory -- 15. The Octatonic Scale -- 16. Backstage at the Opera -- 17. A Tale of Two Conductors: Koussevitzky and Mitropoulos -- 18. From My Diary: Brief Encounters -- Appendix: From My Scrapbook -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910449685403321 |
Berger Arthur <1912-2003.> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Weimar on the Pacific : German exile culture in Los Angeles and the crisis of modernism / / Ehrhard Bahr |
Autore | Bahr Ehrhard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 358 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 700.89/31079494 |
Collana | Weimar and now : German cultural criticism |
Soggetto topico |
Modernism (Aesthetics) - California - Los Angeles
Germans - California - Los Angeles - Intellectual life Jews, German - California - Los Angeles - Intellectual life |
Soggetto non controllato |
18th century
1930s 1940s 20th century american history arnold schoenberg bertolt brecht california classicism ehrhard bahr exile fritz lang german artists german modernism germany intellectual los angeles modernism national socialism pacific coast schoenberg socialism southern california theodore adorno thomas mann united states history us history weimer germany weimer republic west coast western united states |
ISBN |
1-282-35926-6
9786612359262 0-520-93380-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Dialectic of Modernism -- Chapter 2. Art and Its Resistance to Society -- Chapter 3. Bertolt Brecht's California Poetry -- Chapter 4. The Dialectic of Modern Science -- Chapter 5. Epic Theater versus Film Noir -- Chapter 6. California Modern as Immigrant Modernism -- Chapter 7. Between Modernism and Antimodernism -- Chapter 8. Renegade Modernism -- Chapter 9. The Political Battleground of Exile Modernism -- Chapter 10. Evil Germany versus Good Germany -- Chapter 11. A "True Modernist" -- Conclusion: The Weimar Legacy of Los Angeles -- Chronology -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777949203321 |
Bahr Ehrhard | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Weimar on the Pacific : German exile culture in Los Angeles and the crisis of modernism / / Ehrhard Bahr |
Autore | Bahr Ehrhard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 358 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 700.89/31079494 |
Collana | Weimar and now : German cultural criticism |
Soggetto topico |
Modernism (Aesthetics) - California - Los Angeles
Germans - California - Los Angeles - Intellectual life Jews, German - California - Los Angeles - Intellectual life |
Soggetto non controllato |
18th century
1930s 1940s 20th century american history arnold schoenberg bertolt brecht california classicism ehrhard bahr exile fritz lang german artists german modernism germany intellectual los angeles modernism national socialism pacific coast schoenberg socialism southern california theodore adorno thomas mann united states history us history weimer germany weimer republic west coast western united states |
ISBN |
1-282-35926-6
9786612359262 0-520-93380-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Dialectic of Modernism -- Chapter 2. Art and Its Resistance to Society -- Chapter 3. Bertolt Brecht's California Poetry -- Chapter 4. The Dialectic of Modern Science -- Chapter 5. Epic Theater versus Film Noir -- Chapter 6. California Modern as Immigrant Modernism -- Chapter 7. Between Modernism and Antimodernism -- Chapter 8. Renegade Modernism -- Chapter 9. The Political Battleground of Exile Modernism -- Chapter 10. Evil Germany versus Good Germany -- Chapter 11. A "True Modernist" -- Conclusion: The Weimar Legacy of Los Angeles -- Chronology -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809271703321 |
Bahr Ehrhard | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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