Writings on music / Nicolas Slonimsky ; edited by Electra Slonimsky Yourke.

Author/creator Slonimsky, Nicolas
Other author Yourke, Electra editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 2004-2005.
Description4 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Music--History and criticism.

Partial contents v. 1. Early articles for the Boston evening transcript -- v. 2. Russian and Soviet music and composers -- v. 3. Music of the modern era -- v. 4. Slonimskyana.
Contents Volume one. Early articles for the Boston Evening Transcript. Tansman's traits: prodigious youth, prolific composer, new guest at the symphony concerts 12/28/27 -- Stravinskiana 2/25/28 -- The Averinos' concert 3/23/28 -- By way of introduction (Honegger) 3/30/28 -- A welcoming hail (Casella) 4/28/28 -- Young modernists hoe their own row (Copland & Sessions) 5/11/28 -- By his faith, by his work, to the end (Gilbert) 5/26/28 -- The hand that evokes music from the ether (Theremin) 10/2/28 -- From the ether a "new" music in new manner (Theremin) 10/8/28 -- New stirrings in ether-wave music (Theremin) 10/19/28 -- In Arthur Honegger the symphony concerts receive a notable guest 1/10/29 -- The patient, the doctors, the verdicts (American music) 1/29/29 -- Composer, conductor, cosmopolite (Goossens) 2/23/29 -- By innovation shall hearers recognize him (Cowell) 3/9/29 -- Bouncing into fortune's lap and out again (Dukelsky) 3/14/29 -- Our jazzing, their jazzing, reasons why 4/20/29 -- Modernist sprung from the ancients (Casella) 5/28/29 -- The pit they have hollowed for Toscanini 11/2/29 -- Unalloyed, undecorated, undiminished (Musorgsky) [Mussorgsky] 11/30/29 -- This America deep in his fervent soul (Bloch) 12/17/29 -- A single line is Glazunov's musical life 1/15/30 -- Side-glances at Prokofiev now returned 1/30/30 -- In epitome the career of Roussel 10/23/30 -- Who is Mossolov [Mosolov]? And what is he? 12/1/30 -- The psalms and pieties of Igor Stravinsky 12/13/30 -- The strange case of Arthur Vincent Lourié 1/3/31 -- Fortunate years for unfortunate composer (Musorgsky) [Mussorgsky] 4/11/31 -- With the new concerto for mirror (Stravinsky) 12/29/31 -- Florent Schmitt 11/26/32 -- Enter lastly the youngest of the angels (Markevitch) 4/20/33 -- Scientific mind turned on music (Saminsky) 5/20/33 -- Welcome for the incoming modern master (Schoenberg) 10/28/33 -- From the west composer new to Bostonians (Harris) 1/24/34 -- Composer who has clung to his own way (Ives) 2/3/34 -- Ranging round the world of music 11/3/34 -- Ranging found the world of music 11/17/34 -- Ranging round the world of music 1/5/35 -- Ranging round the world of music 2/9/35 -- Marginal notes on the Russian film 2/23/25 -- Memorandum about unfamiliar music 3/20/35 -- Ranging round the world of music 4/6/35 -- Music of Ives on New England scene 5/4/35 -- Ranging round the world of music 6/8/35 -- Shostakovich, the Soviets' wonder boy 11/2/35 -- Ranging round the music-world 12/35 -- Visitor from Mexico to symphony concerts (Chavez) 4/9/36 -- Vladimir Dukelsky, alias Vernon Duke (date unknown) -- New placing of Rakhmaninov [Rachmaninov] (date unknown).
Contents Volume two. Russian and Soviet music and composers. Part I. The roots of Russian music. Russian music -- Russian folk music -- Russian music in art songs -- Part II. Some major composers. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Muscovy's musical Merlin -- Alexander Glazunov: keeper of Russian tradition -- Reinhold Glière -- Alexander Scriabin -- Nikolai Miaskovsky [Myaskovsky]: the man of twenty-three symphonies -- Alexander Tcherepnin: septuagenarian -- Igor Stravinsky -- Serge Prokofiev: his status in Soviet music -- Dmitri Dmitrievitch Shostakovitch [Shostakovich] -- Shostakovitch's war symphony -- Shostakovitch after the seventh -- Part III. After the revolution. Development of Soviet music -- The Soviet opera -- Soviet composer in war and revolution -- Soviet music at quarter-century mark -- The changing style of Soviet music -- A new tune in Soviet music -- Schoenberg in the Soviet mirror -- Part IV. Personal experiences. Russia revisited -- Stimulating talks reveal extraordinary paradoxes -- Moscow: musical interlude -- Cultural explosion in the U.S.S.R.
Contents Volume three. Music of the modern era. Part I. General articles. Modern music: an airplane view (1926) -- Music in Cuba (1933) -- Four modernist composers (Harris, Varèse, Cowell, Antheil) (1934) -- Modern Italian music (1937-38) -- The status of the Latin American composer (1942) -- The new world of dodecaphonic music (1950) -- Introductory essay (1959) -- The marvelous season 1912-1913 (1963) -- New music in Greece (1965) -- Music for a twentieth-century violinist (1974) -- Introduction (to Twentieth Century Music) (1984) -- Part II. Individual composers. Modern immortals (Bartok & Schoenberg) (1950) -- Caturla of Cuba (Alejandro Caturla) (1940) -- Chou Wen-chung (1961) -- Henry Cowell (1933) -- Howard Hanson: the "American Sibelius" (1944) -- Charles Ives. Musical rebel (1953) ; Musical prophet (1954) -- Ulysses Kay (date unknown) -- Benjamin Lees in excelsis (1975) -- Conlon Nancarrow: complicated problem, drastic solution (1962) -- Walter Piston (1933) -- Wallingford Riegger (date unknown) -- Roger Sessions (1933) -- Géométrie Sonore: Edgar Varèse (1983) -- Heitor Villa-Lobos. A visit (1941) ; The flamboyant chanticleer (1962) -- Part III. Monograph. Roy Harris: Cimarron composer (1952). His life ; His music ; Catalogue of works by Harris.
Local noteJOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY--Missing volume 4.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 2003011569
ISBN0415968658 (v. 1 ; alk. paper)
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