Reflections of an American composer / Arthur Berger.

Author/creator Berger, Arthur
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press,
Description1 online resource (vii, 270 p.)
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Contents Trends in twentieth-century American composition. Composers and their audience in the thirties ; Nationalism ; Is music in decline? ; Rendezvous with Apollo : form is feeling ; Reinventing the past : pastiche, collage, or "criticism"? ; Serialism : composer as theorist ; Rapprochement or friendly takeover? ; Postmodern music -- Writing about music. Virgil Thomson and the press ; Music on my beat ; PNM and the Ph. D. ; A tale of two critics : Rosenfeld and Haggin -- Aesthetics and musical analysis. Do we hear what we say we hear? ; New linguistic modes and the new theory ; The octatonic scale -- Retrospective. Backstage at the opera ; A tale of two conductors : Koussevitzky and Mitropoulos ; From my diary : brief encounters.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Reflections of an American composer Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002. 0520232518 (alk. paper)
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2021696994
ISBN9780520928213 ebook

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