• Media type: Book
  • Title: The great American symphony : music, the depression, and war
  • Contains: Preliminaries. Attitudes -- The times -- Symphonism ascendant -- The symphony's public role -- Symphonies of the mid- to late thirties. The romantic symphony : Barber -- The spiritual symphony : Hanson -- The all-American symphony : Harris -- The muscular symphony : Schuman -- The civil symphony : Carpenter -- Afterthought : Thomson and Cowell -- Symphonies of the war years. Wartime attitudes -- The commemorative symphony : Antheil -- The aesthetic symphony : Diamond -- The dramatic symphony : Bernstein -- The masterly symphony : Piston -- The ambivalent symphony : Barber -- The theatrical symphony : Blitzstein -- Symphonies of the immediate postwar years. The conservatorial symphony : Moore -- The dynamic symphony : Mennin -- The plain-spoken symphony : Thompson -- The August symphony : Copland -- The self-reliant symphony : Creston -- The knotty symphony : Sessions -- American symphonies after 1950. The symphony in the leanest years -- The symphony after 1990.
  • Contributor: Tawa, Nicholas E. [Author]
  • imprint: Bloomington, Ind. [u.a.]: Indiana Univ. Press, 2009
  • Extent: XI, 237 Seiten; 24cm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780253353054; 025335305X
  • RVK notation: LR 54537 : 20. Jahrhundert
    LQ 89307 : 20. Jahrhundert
  • Keywords: USA > Konzertleben > Geschichte 1929-2000
    USA > Sinfonie > Geschichte 1935-2000
    USA > Orchester > Wirtschaftskrise > Geschichte 1929-1935
    USA > Konzertleben > Geschichte 1929-2000
    USA > Sinfonie > Geschichte 1935-2000
    USA > Orchester > Wirtschaftskrise > Geschichte 1929-1935
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index

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