ISBN:
0415937957
,
9780415937955
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (303 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Uniform Title:
Works. Selections
Parallel Title:
Print version Virgil Thomson : A Reader: Selected Writings, 1924-1984
DDC:
303
Keywords:
Thomson, Virgil
;
Composers
;
Composition (Music)
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Virgil Thomson; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; (Auto)biography (1971); I The Life of Music; Life Among the Natives (1939); How Composers Eat (1939); Why Composers Write How (1939; revised 1962); Age Without Honor (1940); Masterpieces (1944); Conducting Modern Music (1942); The Intellectual Audience (1950); Conservative Institution (1947); English at the Met (1947); Bigger than Baseball (1953); The Burning Question (1966); On Writing Operas and Staging Them (1982); Music Does Not Flow (1981); The New Grove. . . (1981)
Description / Table of Contents:
II PrecursorsMozart's Leftism (1940); The Official Stravinsky (1936); Acquaintance with Wagner (1943); Fairy Tale About Music (1945); French Music Here [Erik Satie] (1941); [Edward] MacDowell's Music (1944); [Carl] Ruggles (1971); Reactionary Critic (1951); III Contemporaries-Performers; Great Music [Artur Rubinstein] (1940); Pipe-Organ Obsession [Leopold Stokowski] (1940); Master of Distortion and Exaggeration [Vladimir Horowitz] (1942); Silk-Underwear Music [Jascha Heifitz] (1940); The Toscanini Case (1942); Violence and Charm [Rudolf Firkusny] (1944); The Koussevitzky Case (1947)
Description / Table of Contents:
In Spite of Conducting [Dimitri Mitropoulos] (1953)Jazz (1924); Swing Music (1936); Sacred Swing [Gospel Music] (1941); "La Môme" Piaf (1947); IV Contemporaries-Composers; George Gershwin (1935); [Charlie] Chaplin Scores (1940); Star Dust and Spun Steel [Anton Webern] (1950); Most Melodious Tears [Kurt Weill] (1933); Olivier Messiaen (1945); Music Now (1961); Edgard Varèse, 1883-1965 (1966); Henry Cowell: By Weight and By Volume (n.d.); Aaron Copland (1932, 1949, 1957, 1971); Notes on Composers (1971); V Contemporaries-Publishers, Artists, Writers, and A Museum Director
Description / Table of Contents:
The Paper [New York Herald Tribune] (1966)A War's End [Modern Music] (1947); Eugene Berman, 1899-1972 (1974); Leonid Berman, 1896-1976 (1978); Gertrude Stein (1953, 1982, 1989); On, Donald Sutherland (1978); Edwin Denby (1984); The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music [Everett "Chick" Austin] (1958); VI Successors; Expressive Percussion [John Cage] (1945); Gian-Carlo Menotti (1947, 1950); The Genius Type [Pierre Boulez] (1968); A Note Regarding Lou Harrison (n.d.); Notes on Composers (1971); VII Autobiography; Personal Statement (c.1981); The Music Reviewer and His Assignment (1953)
Description / Table of Contents:
Europe in America (1966)All Roads Lead to Paris (1966); Possibilities: V.T. Questioned by 8 Composers (1947); VIII His Own Works; On Portraits and Operas (n.d.); Four Saints in Three Acts (n.d.); Sea Piece with Birds (1952); The Seine at Night (1948); The Feast of Love (1964); Bibliography-Works; Index of Proper Names
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page [281]) and index
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