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Music and the Moderns
Glenda Dawn Goss
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Description for Music and the Moderns
Hardback. Goss' biography of Carol Robinson (1889-1979) presents the life of a serious American pianist within the larger context of American intellectual life. Num Pages: 285 pages, Fr.Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVH; AVRG; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 503.
This biography of Carol Robinson (1889-1979) presents the life of a serious American pianist within the larger context of American intellectual life in the first decades of the twentieth century. An active participant in the avant-garde, Robinson established close ties with literati Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap of The Little Review; with artist Pavel Tchelichev and architect Frank Lloyd Wright; with dancers Elizabeth Delza and Henri; with composers George Antheil, Bohuslav Martinu, and Henry Cowell; and with the spiritual leader Georgi Gurdjieff. The author considers Robinson's life as a pianist and teacher as well as the larger issues raised ... Read more
This biography of Carol Robinson (1889-1979) presents the life of a serious American pianist within the larger context of American intellectual life in the first decades of the twentieth century. An active participant in the avant-garde, Robinson established close ties with literati Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap of The Little Review; with artist Pavel Tchelichev and architect Frank Lloyd Wright; with dancers Elizabeth Delza and Henri; with composers George Antheil, Bohuslav Martinu, and Henry Cowell; and with the spiritual leader Georgi Gurdjieff. The author considers Robinson's life as a pianist and teacher as well as the larger issues raised ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
Number of Pages
285
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810826267
SKU
V9780810826267
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99-15
About Glenda Dawn Goss
Glenda Dawn Goss (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is a professor of Musicology at the University of Georgia. A specialist in sixteenth-century Netherlands music and in musical reception in the twentieth century, she has edited Renaissance chansons and contemporary keyboard works, published studies on the court, composers, and music manuscripts of Mary of Hungary, and written on ... Read more
Reviews for Music and the Moderns
The descriptions of her philosophy of teaching, her methods, and her successes, make for the most illuminating reading...
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...a work of impressive scholarship....
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CHOICE
...a work of impressive scholarship....
Pan Pipes (Journal of Sigma Alpha Iota)