Copland connotations : studies and interviews / edited by Peter Dickinson ; with a foreword by H. Wiley Hitchcock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dickinson, Peter, 1934-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990--Criticism and interpretation.

Copland, Aaron.

Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990--Interviews.

Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990.

Criticism and interpretation.

Local Subjects:

Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990--Interviews.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xviii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2002.

Summary:

A mine of information for both general and specialist readers about the life and work of one of America's greatest composers.

Contents:

Copland and his context. Copland and the "Boulangerie" / Mark DeVoto. Copland and the "Jazz Boys" / David Schiff. Copland, the West, and American identity / Jessica Burr. Copland and music for dance : questioning fundamental assumptions / Marta Robertson. Copland on Hollywood / Sally Bick

Copland, performers, and other composers. Aaron Copland and John Kirkpatrick : "Dear John, can you help me out?" / Vivian Perlis. Copland, Gershwin, and the American landscape / Howard Pollack. Copland, Ives, and gambling with the future / Larry Starr

Studies of individual works. Speaking to whom? : modernism, middlebrow, and Copland's Short symphony / Jennifer DeLapp. Simple gifts and complex accretions / William Brooks. Expanding horizons : sexuality and the re-zoning of The tender land / Daniel E. Mathers. Technique and rhetoric in the Piano fantasy / Arnold Whittall

Responses to Copland. Copland and the Broadway sound / Stephen Banfield. Copland's earlier British connections / Peter Dickinson. Open forum discussion / Stephen Banfield ... [et al.]

Two interviews with Aaron Copland.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0851159028

OCLC:

49312696