A history of American classical music / by Barrymore Laurence Scherer.

By: Scherer, Barrymore Laurence
Language: Unknown language code Publisher: Great Britain : Naxos Books, [2007]Description: vii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781843791171Subject(s): Music -- United States -- History and criticismGenre/Form: NonfictionDDC classification: 781.6/80973 LOC classification: ML200 | S34 2007Online resources: Table of contents only
Contents:
Introduction: The dawn of American classical music -- From founding through revolution -- The awakening -- Transplanting romantic European traditions -- Into the twentieth century: the traditionalists -- American impressionists and folklorists -- New England iconoclast: Charles Ives -- From bandstand to Broadway: the 1890s to 1930s -- The earlier struggles of American opera -- Modernism elbows its way into the concert hall -- Europeans abroad -- Between the World Wars: Americans struggle to be heard -- Lighter hearts of the 1920s and 1930s -- Perpetuating the romantic tradition -- America goes to war: the 1940s -- Exploring the frontiers of sound -- The melting-pot of American opera and musical theatre -- Anxiety's son: Leonard Bernstein -- The age of anxiety: music in the Cold War era -- Making the most of minimalism -- Today and into tomorrow: old glory and new.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-229) and index.

Introduction: The dawn of American classical music -- From founding through revolution -- The awakening -- Transplanting romantic European traditions -- Into the twentieth century: the traditionalists -- American impressionists and folklorists -- New England iconoclast: Charles Ives -- From bandstand to Broadway: the 1890s to 1930s -- The earlier struggles of American opera -- Modernism elbows its way into the concert hall -- Europeans abroad -- Between the World Wars: Americans struggle to be heard -- Lighter hearts of the 1920s and 1930s -- Perpetuating the romantic tradition -- America goes to war: the 1940s -- Exploring the frontiers of sound -- The melting-pot of American opera and musical theatre -- Anxiety's son: Leonard Bernstein -- The age of anxiety: music in the Cold War era -- Making the most of minimalism -- Today and into tomorrow: old glory and new.

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