American Experimental Music 1890-1940 Paperback

Nicholls, David

ISBN 10: 052142464X ISBN 13: 9780521424646

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

From the end of the nineteenth century a national musical consciousness gradually developed in the USA, leading to a period of experimentation. David Nicholls considers the most influential figures of this period - Charles Ives, Charles Seeger, Ruth Crawford, Henry Cowell and the young John Cage. He analyses the music and idea of this group and explains the historical and cultural context in which they emerged.

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Críticas:

"...musicians will enjoy seeing a British composer/scholar trace an American experimental movement with an objectivity that only a transatlantic outsider could muster." Kyle Gann, Voice

"...a coherent guide to the inner workings of compositions by Charles Ives, Charles Seeger, Carl Ruggles, Ruth Crawford, Henry Cowell and John Cage. Nicholls writes eminently readable prose- no small acheivement in an analytic text- and provides insightful findings. Notes

Contraportada:

From the end of the nineteenth century a national musical consciousness gradually emerged in the U.S.A. as composers began to turn away from the European conventions on which their music had hitherto been modeled. It was in this period of change that experimentalism was born and America subsequently became, as it still is, a major source of new musical ideas for European musicians.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 052142464X
• ISBN 13: 9780521424646
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 254