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- Title: The History of American Classical Music: MacDowell Through Minimalism.
- Author: John Warthen Struble.
- Foreword by Philip Glass.
- Published by Facts on File, Inc. An Infobase Holdings Company.
- Text design by Mark Safran.
- Layout by Robert Yaffe.
- Jacket desing by Semadar Megged.
- Cover Design by Steven Brower.
- Cover Photography by Arnold Katz.
- © 1995 by John Warthen Struble.
- ISBN: 0-8160-2927-X (hc.).
- ISBN: 0-8160-3493-1 (pbk.).
Contents
vii. Acknowledgments.
ix. Foreword by Philip Glass.
xiii. Introduction.
001. Forerunners.
022. Edward MacDowell and the "Second" New England School.
047. Charles Ives.
064. Other American Composers of the Early 20th Century.
094. George Gershwin's New Synthesis.
123. Copland, Thomson, Harris and Their Generation: Part I (1900-1933).
147. The Rise of Musical Academia (Hanson, Sessions, Piston and Their Colleagues).
180. Copland, Thomson, Harris and Their Generation: Part II (after 1933).
216. The Generation of the Forties, Fifties and Sixties.
256. The Roots of Dissatisfaction: Foundations of the '60s Avant-Garde.
285. John Cage and the Aleatoric Revolution.
304. Post-modernism.
320. Minimalism.
341. "The Shape of Things to Come" (Where We Have Come; Where We Are Going).
361. Appendix A: A Timeline of American Music History (with Other Historical Events).
404. Appendix B: 245 Significant American Composers Listed by State (Country) of Origin.
413. Appendix C: The Fundamental Repertoire of American Classical Music.
424. Selected Bibliography of Readings in American Classical Music.
431. Index.Total Pages 446.
Notes
The History of American Classical Music offers the reader a fascinating portrait of American serious music. Though most of the story takes place in the 20th century, author John Warthen Struble begins in 1562 and examines all the influences that shaped the American music tradition. These include 18th- and 19th-century East Coast genteel musical traditions; Scottish and Irish folk music; North American Indian music; West African music brought over and adapted by slaves; balladry; Creole and Gulf Coast music; and popular music.
A sweeping 300-year survey, The History of American Classical Music includes composers from psalmist Louis Bourgeois to minimalist Steve Reich. It examines composers of musical academia such as Milton Babbit and Walter Piston; innovators and groundbreakers such as John Cage and Elliot Carter; Pulitzer prize-winning composers such as Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and George Crumb; European expatriates such as Lukas Foss and Edgard Varese; and popular composers like George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein. John Warthen Struble presents composers of music as diverse in style and background as that of Edward MacDowell, Lowell Mason, Amy C. Beach, Charles Ives, Harry Partch, Gunther Schuller, Stephen C. Foster, Philip Glass and William Schumann.
The cast of characters is an unusually diverse and engaging group of individuals whose lives are often as interesting as their music. Also in the book is a foreword by composer Philip Glass, over 50 photographs, a chronology, a list of basic repertoire and an extensive bibliography.
John Warthen Struble is a composer, performer and music educator. His articles and lectures have appeared in Musical america and other publications, and his compositions have been performed throught the United States and Sandinavia.
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