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Author : Howard Pollack
Release : 2000
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 000/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Aaron Copland by : Howard Pollack
Download or read book Aaron Copland written by Howard Pollack. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the biography of Aaron Copland, his life, and his music.
Author : Aaron Copland
Release : 2011-02-01
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 144/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis What to Listen For in Music by : Aaron Copland
Download or read book What to Listen For in Music written by Aaron Copland. This book was released on 2011-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in trade paperback: “The definitive guide to musical enjoyment” (Forum). In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to both contemporary and classical music analytically, eminent American composer Aaron Copland offers provocative suggestions that will bring readers a deeper appreciation of the most viscerally rewarding of all art forms.
Author : Carol J. Oja
Release : 2005-08-21
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 701/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Aaron Copland and His World by : Carol J. Oja
Download or read book Aaron Copland and His World written by Carol J. Oja. This book was released on 2005-08-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text reassesses the legacy of one of America's best-loved composers at a pivotal moment - as his life and work shift from the realm of personal memory to that of history. The collection of 17 essays explores the stages of cultural change on which Aaron Copeland's long life unfolded.
Author : Neil Butterworth
Release : 1986
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Music of Aaron Copland by : Neil Butterworth
Download or read book The Music of Aaron Copland written by Neil Butterworth. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Horowitz
Release : 2021-11-23
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 253/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dvorak's Prophecy: And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music by : Joseph Horowitz
Download or read book Dvorak's Prophecy: And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music written by Joseph Horowitz. This book was released on 2021-11-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"—how it got to be that way and what can be done about it. In 1893 the composer Antonín Dvorák prophesied a “great and noble school” of American classical music based on the “negro melodies” he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while Black music would foster popular genres known the world over, it never gained a foothold in the concert hall. Black composers found few opportunities to have their works performed, and white composers mainly rejected Dvorák’s lead. Joseph Horowitz ranges throughout American cultural history, from Frederick Douglass and Huckleberry Finn to George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and the work of Ralph Ellison, searching for explanations. Challenging the standard narrative for American classical music fashioned by Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, he looks back to literary figures—Emerson, Melville, and Twain—to ponder how American music can connect with a “usable past.” The result is a new paradigm that makes room for Black composers, including Harry Burleigh, Nathaniel Dett, William Levi Dawson, and Florence Price, while giving increased prominence to Charles Ives and George Gershwin. Dvorák’s Prophecy arrives in the midst of an important conversation about race in America—a conversation that is taking place in music schools and concert halls as well as capitols and boardrooms. As George Shirley writes in his foreword to the book, “We have been left unprepared for the current cultural moment. [Joseph Horowitz] explains how we got there [and] proposes a bigger world of American classical music than what we have known before. It is more diverse and more equitable. And it is more truthful.”
