American pioneers : Ives to Cage and beyond / by Alan Rich.
1995
ML390 .R49 1995 (Mapit)
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Title
American pioneers : Ives to Cage and beyond / by Alan Rich.
Author
Rich, Alan.
ISBN
9780714847696 (pbk.)
0714847690 (pbk.)
9780714831732
0714831735
0714847690 (pbk.)
9780714831732
0714831735
Imprint
London : Phaidon, 1995.
Language
English
Description
240 p. : ill., facsims., music, ports. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
ML390 .R49 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification
780.922
Summary
American Pioneers presents a survey of that peculiarly American innovatory spirit as manifest in the nation's music. On the east coast, early in the twentieth century, this spirit was captured by Charles Ives (whose music lay virtually ignored and unperformed until the world caught up with him, forty years later). On the west coast, Henry Cowell and John Cage encountered similar critical resistance. Their pioneering flair was an act of defiance: Americans throwing off the shackles of European tradition and inventing a new language, seeking to redefine what could or could not be embraced by the term 'music'.
No single book to date has concentrated on this particularly rebellious trend in American music. American Pioneers investigates the life and work of the major American innovators - including Carl Ruggles, Edgard Varese, Harry Partch, Colin McPhee, Lou Harrison and members of America's youngest composing generation - revealing the colourful and often idiosyncratic nature of these characters, and focusing on the peculiarly American quality of their artistic motivation.
No single book to date has concentrated on this particularly rebellious trend in American music. American Pioneers investigates the life and work of the major American innovators - including Carl Ruggles, Edgard Varese, Harry Partch, Colin McPhee, Lou Harrison and members of America's youngest composing generation - revealing the colourful and often idiosyncratic nature of these characters, and focusing on the peculiarly American quality of their artistic motivation.
Note
Includes index.
No single book to date has concentrated on this particularly rebellious trend in American music. American Pioneers investigates the life and work of the major American innovators - including Carl Ruggles, Edgard Varese, Harry Partch, Colin McPhee, Lou Harrison and members of America's youngest composing generation - revealing the colourful and often idiosyncratic nature of these characters, and focusing on the peculiarly American quality of their artistic motivation.
No single book to date has concentrated on this particularly rebellious trend in American music. American Pioneers investigates the life and work of the major American innovators - including Carl Ruggles, Edgard Varese, Harry Partch, Colin McPhee, Lou Harrison and members of America's youngest composing generation - revealing the colourful and often idiosyncratic nature of these characters, and focusing on the peculiarly American quality of their artistic motivation.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Bibliography: p. 224-227.
Series
20th-century composers
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Table of Contents
Prelude
Charles Ives
Edgard Varèse
Henry Cowell
John Cage
New sources, new sounds.
Charles Ives
Edgard Varèse
Henry Cowell
John Cage
New sources, new sounds.