Reflections of an American composer / Arthur Berger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berger, Arthur, 1912-2003.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--United States--History and criticism.

Music.

United States.

Berger, Arthur, 1912-2003.

Berger, Arthur.

Physical Description:

vii, 270 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]

Summary:

A book of memoirs and essays by notable composer, critic and teacher Arthur Berger. The author writes vividly about the music scenes in New York, Paris, and Boston, and of his work with notable colleagues such as Stravinsky, Copeland, and Virgil Thompson.

Contents:

I. Trends in twentieth-century American composition

Composers and their audience in the thirties

Nationalism

Is music in decline?

Rendezvous with Apollo : form is feeling

Reinventing the past : pastiche, collage, or "criticism"?

Serialism : composer as theorist

Rapprochement or friendly takeover?

Postmodern music

II. Writing about music

Virgil Thomson and the press

Music on my beat

PNM and the Ph. D.

A tale of two critics : Rosenfeld and Haggin

III. Aesthetics and musical analysis

Do we hear what we say we hear?

New linguistic modes and the new theory

Octatonic scale

IV. Retrospective

Backstage at the opera

Tale of two conductors : Koussevitzky and Mitropoulos

From my diary : brief encounters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index.

ISBN:

0520232518

OCLC:

49698957