Reflections of an American composer / Arthur Berger.
| Author/creator | Berger, Arthur |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, |
| Description | 1 online resource (vii, 270 p.) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Reflections of an American composer Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002. 0520232518 (alk. paper) |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021696994 |
| ISBN | 9780520928213 ebook |
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