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The autobiography of composer and conductor Gunther Schuller and a recounting of the American musical scene through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.

Composers --- Schuller, Gunther. --- Shuller, G. --- Schueller, H. --- Schuller, G. --- American 20th century music. --- Gunther Schuller. --- biography. --- conductor. --- history. --- influence. --- memoir. --- music composition. --- musicology. --- overview. --- performance studies. --- research. --- twentieth century music.

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Compulsively readable interviews with the great American composer and his friends and colleagues, including Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, and Leontyne Price. Samuel Barber is one of America's most popular classical composers. His widely beloved works include "Adagio for Strings" and Knoxville: Summer of 1915 . The main source for Samuel Barber Remembered: A Centenary Tribute is a panoply of vivid and eminently readable interviews by Peter Dickinson for a BBC Radio 3 documentary in 1981. The interviewees include Barber's friends, fellow composers, and performers, notably Gian Carlo Menotti, Aaron Copland, William Schuman, Virgil Thomson, soprano Leontyne Price, and pianist John Browning. The book also includes three of the very few interviews extant with Barber himself. Dickinson contributes substantial chapters on Barber's early life and on Barber's reception in England. The book has a foreword by the distinguished composer and admirer of Barber, John Corigliano. Peter Dickinson, British composer and pianist, has written or editednumerous books about twentieth-century music, including CageTalk: Dialogues with and about John Cage (University of Rochester Press) and three books published by Boydell Press: The Music of Lennox Berkeley; Copland Connotations; and Lord Berners: Composer, Writer, Painter.

Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981 -- Interviews. --- Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981. --- Musicians -- Interviews. --- Musicians --- Barber, Samuel, --- Barber, S. O. --- Barber, Sam, --- Barber, Samuel Osborne, --- Barbŭr, Samuel, --- 20th Century Music. --- Adagio for Strings. --- Classical Composer. --- Interviews. --- Knoxville. --- Music. --- Samuel Barber.

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"At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This provocative study is situated at the intersection of the history, historiography, and aesthetics of twentieth-century music. It uses Benjamin Britten's operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics, and audiences mediated the 'great divide' between modernism and mass culture. Reviving midcentury discussions of the 'middlebrow,' Christopher Chowrimootoo demonstrates how these works allowed audiences to have their modernist cake and eat it too: to revel in the pleasures of consonance, lyricism, and theatrical spectacle even while enjoying the prestige that came from rejecting them. By focusing on key moments when reigning aesthetic oppositions and hierarchies threatened to collapse, Middlebrow Modernism offers a powerful model for recovering shades of gray in the previously black-and-white historiographies of twentieth-century music"--Provided by publisher.

Music --- Opera --- Modernism (Music) --- History --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Britten, Benjamin, --- Modernism in music --- Modernist music --- Musical modernism --- Style, Musical --- 20th century music. --- aesthetic oppositions. --- aesthetics. --- audiences. --- benjamin britten. --- composers. --- consonance. --- critics. --- cultural hierarchies. --- great divide. --- historiography. --- lyricism. --- mass culture. --- mid century discussions. --- modernism. --- music history and criticism. --- music history. --- music. --- opera music. --- opera. --- prestige. --- shades of grey. --- theatrical spectacle. --- Philosophy and esthetics. --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries)

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Why are some of the most beloved and frequently performed works of the late-romantic period-Mahler, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, Puccini-regarded by many critics as perhaps not quite of the first rank? Why has modernist discourse continued to brand these works as overly sentimental and emotionally self-indulgent? Peter Franklin takes a close and even-handed look at how and why late-romantic symphonies and operas steered a complex course between modernism and mass culture in the period leading up to the Second World War. The style's continuing popularity and its domination of the film music idiom (via work by composers such as Max Steiner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and their successors) bring late-romantic music to thousands of listeners who have never set foot in a concert hall. Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music sheds new light on these often unfairly disparaged works and explores the historical dimension of their continuing role in the contemporary sound world.

Music --- Hermeneutics (Music) --- Musical aesthetics --- Aesthetics --- Music theory --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy --- bloch. --- classical music. --- claude debussy. --- contemporary music. --- continued influence. --- early 20th century music. --- early modern period. --- english composer. --- ernest bloch lectures series. --- film music idiom. --- finnish composer. --- frederick delius. --- french composer. --- giacomo puccini. --- gustav mahler. --- italian opera. --- johan julius christian sibelius. --- late 19th century music. --- late romantic music. --- mass culture. --- modernism. --- modernity. --- music. --- opera composer. --- opera music. --- romantic composers. --- romantic period. --- second world war.

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In this pioneering, erudite study of a pivotal era in the arts, Walter Frisch examines music and its relationship to early modernism in the Austro-German sphere. Seeking to explore the period on its own terms, Frisch questions the common assumption that works created from the later 1870's through World War I were transitional between late romanticism and high modernism. Drawing on a wide range of examples across different media, he establishes a cultural and intellectual context for late Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, and Arnold Schoenberg, as well as their less familiar contemporaries Eugen d'Albert, Hans Pfitzner, Max Reger, Max von Schillings, and Franz Schreker. Frisch explores "ambivalent" modernism in the last quarter of the nineteenth century as reflected in the attitudes of, and relationship between, Nietzsche and Wagner. He goes on to examine how naturalism, the first self-conscious movement of German modernism, intersected with musical values and practices of the day. He proposes convergences between music and the visual arts in the works of Brahms, Max Klinger, Schoenberg, and Kandinsky. Frisch also explains how, near the turn of the century, composers drew inspiration and techniques from music of the past-the Renaissance, Bach, Mozart, and Wagner. Finally, he demonstrates how irony became a key strategy in the novels and novellas of Thomas Mann, the symphonies of Mahler, and the operas of Strauss and Hofmannsthal.

Art and music. --- Modernism (Art) --- Modernism (Music) --- Music --- Modernism in music --- Modernist music --- Musical modernism --- Style, Musical --- Art, Modernist --- Modern art --- Modernism in art --- Modernist art --- Aesthetic movement (Art) --- Art, Modern --- Music and art --- History and criticism. --- Musique --- Modernisme (musique) --- Modernisme (art) --- Art et musique. --- 19th century european music. --- 20th century european music. --- ambivalent modernism. --- arnold schoenberg. --- austro german music. --- california studies in 20th century music. --- early modernism. --- eugen dalbert. --- franz schreker. --- german modernism. --- german naturalism. --- gustav mahler. --- hans pfitzner. --- historicist modernism. --- late richard wagner. --- max reger. --- max von schillings. --- modernism. --- modernist music. --- modernity. --- music and visual arts. --- music history. --- music. --- musicians. --- nietzsche. --- richard strauss. --- thomas mann. --- wagner.