The American Stravinsky : the style and aesthetics of Copland's new American music, the early works, 1921-1938 / Gayle Murchison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murchison, Gayle Minetta, author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Copland, Aaron.

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971--Influence.

Stravinsky, Igor.

Music--United States--European influences--History--20th century.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 285 pages) : illustrations, music

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2012]

Summary:

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 role in the growth of serious music in the Americas in the twentieth century. In The American Stravinsky, Gayle Murchison closely analyzes selected works to discern the specific compositional techniques Copland used, and to understand the degree to which they derived from European models, particularly the influence of Igor Stravinsky. Murchison examines how Copland both Americanized these models and made them his own, thereby finding his own compositional voice. Murchison also discusses Copland's aesthetics of music and his ideas about its purpose and social function.

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 México

Billy the Kid

A vision for American music ...

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-275) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472901005

0472901001

9780472125043

0472125044

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access