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Nicholas Tawa - The Great American Symphony - 9780253353054 - V9780253353054
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The Great American Symphony

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Description for The Great American Symphony Hardcover. Introduces the symphonists and their major works from the romanticism of Samuel Barber and the 'All-American' Roy Harris through the theatrics of Leonard Bernstein and Marc Blitzstein to the broad-shouldered appeal of Virgil Thompson and Aaron Copland. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGC6; AVRB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 518.

The years of the Great Depression, World War II, and their aftermath brought a sea change in American music. This period of economic, social, and political adversity can truly be considered a musical golden age. In the realm of classical music, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Howard Hanson, Virgil Thompson, and Leonard Bernstein—among others—produced symphonic works of great power and lasting beauty during these troubled years. It was during this critical decade and a half that contemporary writers on American culture began to speculate about "the Great American Symphony" and looked to these composers for music that would embody the spirit ... Read more

In this volume, Nicholas Tawa concludes that they succeeded, at the very least, in producing music that belongs in the cultural memory of every American. Tawa introduces the symphonists and their major works from the romanticism of Barber and the "all-American" Roy Harris through the theatrics of Bernstein and Marc Blitzstein to the broad-shouldered appeal of Thompson and Copland. Tawa's musical descriptions are vivid and personal, and invite music lovers and trained musicians alike to turn again to the marvelous and lasting music of this time.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253353054
SKU
V9780253353054
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Nicholas Tawa
Nicholas Tawa is co-founder of the Sonneck Society, now the Society for American Music. He is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Reviews for The Great American Symphony
A prolific writer, scholar, and advocate for American music, Tawa (emer., Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston) does not argue for a single symphony as the "great American symphony" but instead nominates a dozen symphonic composers prominent from 1930 to 1950 among whose works a "great American symphony" might be found. The author's excellent vignettes on these composers encompass factual and anecdotal ... Read more

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