MTU Cork Library Catalogue

Copland on music / Aaron Copland.

By: Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990 [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Andre Deutsch, 1961Copyright date: ©1960Description: 280 pages ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): MusicDDC classification: 780.8
Contents:
The pleasures of music -- Creativity in America -- Music as an aspect of the human spirit -- The conductor: Serge Koussevitzky -- The teacher: Nadia Boulanger -- The composer: Igor Stravinsky -- The critic: Paul Rosenfeld -- The pianist: William Kapell -- At the thought of Mozart -- Berlioz today -- Liszt as pioneer -- Faure Centennial in America: 1945 -- From a composer's journal -- The younger generation of American composers: 1926-59 -- European festivals and premieres: a glance backward -- Zuriich: 1926, Baden-Baden: 1927, Paris: 1928, London: 1931, Berlin: 1932 -- The composers of South America: 1941 -- The reviewing stand. Music by: Darius Milhaud (1947), Benjamin Britten (1947), Stefan Wolpe (1948), Leon Kirchner (1950), William Schuman (1951) ; Books about: Virgil Thomson's Musical state (1939), Schonberg and his school (1949), The life and music of Bartok (1953) -- "Are my ears on wrong?": a polemic -- Interpreters and new music -- The dilemma of our symphony orchestras -- Shop talk: on the notation of rhythm.

The pleasures of music -- Creativity in America -- Music as an aspect of the human spirit -- The conductor: Serge Koussevitzky -- The teacher: Nadia Boulanger -- The composer: Igor Stravinsky -- The critic: Paul Rosenfeld -- The pianist: William Kapell -- At the thought of Mozart -- Berlioz today -- Liszt as pioneer -- Faure Centennial in America: 1945 -- From a composer's journal -- The younger generation of American composers: 1926-59 -- European festivals and premieres: a glance backward -- Zuriich: 1926, Baden-Baden: 1927, Paris: 1928, London: 1931, Berlin: 1932 -- The composers of South America: 1941 -- The reviewing stand. Music by: Darius Milhaud (1947), Benjamin Britten (1947), Stefan Wolpe (1948), Leon Kirchner (1950), William Schuman (1951) ; Books about: Virgil Thomson's Musical state (1939), Schonberg and his school (1949), The life and music of Bartok (1953) -- "Are my ears on wrong?": a polemic -- Interpreters and new music -- The dilemma of our symphony orchestras -- Shop talk: on the notation of rhythm.

Dr. Geoffrey Spratt Collection.

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