Music musique : French & American piano composition in the Jazz Age / Barbara Meister.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meister, Barbara, 1932-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Music--France--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--United States--20th century--History and criticism.

Piano music--History and criticism.

Piano music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Music Musique is a study of American and French composers active in the late 19th through early 20th centuries and the influence of jazz on their compositional styles. Starting with a look at the formation of American and French styles of composition, Meister discusses the jazz influence on American composers such as Ives, Copland, and Seeger, and their reception in France. She then takes a parallel look at the jazz influence on prominent French composers such as Ravel, Milhaud, and Messiaen,

Contents:

Introduction

The formation of a French style of composition

The formation of an American style of composition

A brief history of jazz in America

American composers in the 1920s, part I

American composers in the 1920s, part II

The Harlem renaissance

America in the 1930s

Paris in the 1920s, part I

Paris in the 1920s, part II

Edgar Varese and Igor Stravinsky

Paris in the 1930s

Epilogue-envoi.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-153) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-07548-9

9786612075483

0-253-11234-6

OCLC:

290477324