The American Stravinsky : The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938 /
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...
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Scherzo humoristique (Cat and mouse) : Copland's American Petrushka and his debt to Stravinsky
- Boulanger and compositional maturity
- Popular music and jazz : authentic or Ersatz?
- Paris and jazz : French neoclassicism and the new modern American music
- Back in the United States : popular music, jazz, and the new American music
- European influence beyond Stravinsky and les Six : Hába and Schoenberg
- Toward a new national music during the 1930s : Copland's populism, accessible style, and folk and popular music
- Copland's journey left
- "Folk" music and the popular front : El salón Mexico
- Billy the Kid
- A vision for American music
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