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In this engrossing collection of essays, distinguished composer, theorist, journalist, and educator Arthur Berger invites us into the vibrant and ever-changing American music scene that has been his home for most of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane, and always entertaining, Berger describes the music scene in New York and Boston since the 1930's, discussing the heady days when he was a member of a tight-knit circle of avant-garde young composers mentored by Aaron Copland as well as his participation in a group at Harvard University dedicated to Stravinsky. As Virgil Thomson's associate on the New York Herald Tribune and founding editor of the prestigious Perspectives of New Music, Berger became one of the preeminent observers and critics of American music. His reflections on the role of music in contemporary life, his journalism career, and how changes in academia influence the composition and teaching of music offer a unique perspective informed by Berger's abundant intelligence and experience.

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Breaking down walls between genres that are usually discussed separately-classical, jazz, and popular-this highly engaging book offers a compelling new integrated view of twentieth-century music. Placing Duke Ellington (1899-1974) at the center of the story, David Schiff explores music written during the composer's lifetime in terms of broad ideas such as rhythm, melody, and harmony. He shows how composers and performers across genres shared the common pursuit of representing the rapidly changing conditions of modern life. The Ellington Century demonstrates how Duke Ellington's music is as vital to musical modernism as anything by Stravinsky, more influential than anything by Schoenberg, and has had a lasting impact on jazz and pop that reaches from Gershwin to contemporary R&B.

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This volume shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of revealing ways. Five new essays examine Ives's relationships to European music and to American music, politics, business, and landscape. J. Peter Burkholder shows Ives as a composer well versed in four distinctive musical traditions who blended them in his mature music. Leon Botstein explores the paradox of how, in the works of Ives and Mahler, musical modernism emerges from profoundly antimodern sensibilities. David Michael Hertz reveals unsuspected parallels between one of Ives's most famous pieces, the Concord Piano Sonata, and the piano sonatas of Liszt and Scriabin. Michael Broyles sheds new light on Ives's political orientation and on his career in the insurance business, and Mark Tucker shows the importance for Ives of his vacations in the Adirondacks and the representation of that landscape in his music. The remainder of the book presents documents that illuminate Ives's personal life. A selection of some sixty letters to and from Ives and his family, edited and annotated by Tom C. Owens, is the first substantial collection of Ives correspondence to be published. Two sections of reviews and longer profiles published during his lifetime highlight the important stages in the reception of Ives's music, from his early works through the premieres of his most important compositions to his elevation as an almost mythic figure with a reputation among some critics as America's greatest composer.

Ives, Charles, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Correspondence. --- Critique et interprétation --- Correspondance --- Critique et interprétation --- Ives, Charles Edward --- Criticism and interpretation --- Correspondence --- Ives, Charles, - 1874-1954 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Ives, Charles, - 1874-1954 - Correspondence. --- Composers --- Muziekwerken. --- Aufsatzsammlung --- Ives, Charles. --- Ives, Charles --- Critique et interpretation. --- Aaron Copland. --- Alexander Scriabin. --- American Tune. --- American popular music. --- Antonín Dvorák. --- Arnold Schoenberg. --- Art music. --- Atonality. --- Bernard Herrmann. --- Career. --- Carl Ruggles. --- Charles Ives. --- Choir. --- Church music. --- Claude Debussy. --- Composer. --- Contemporary classical music. --- Creative work. --- Dissonant. --- Dudley Buck. --- E. Robert Schmitz. --- Early music. --- Entrance (musician). --- Ernest Walker (composer). --- Example (musician). --- Experimental music. --- Felix Mendelssohn. --- For Example. --- Franz Liszt. --- Gilbert and Sullivan. --- Gospel Song (19th century). --- Gustav Mahler. --- Half note. --- Harry Lauder. --- Hear the Music. --- Henry Bellamann. --- Henry Cowell. --- Horatio Parker. --- Hymn tune. --- Igor Stravinsky. --- Illustration. --- Improvisation. --- Insurance. --- Johann Sebastian Bach. --- Johannes Brahms. --- John Cage. --- La mer (Debussy). --- Leon Botstein. --- Leonard Bernstein. --- Lou Harrison. --- Ludwig van Beethoven. --- Maynard Solomon. --- Metre (music). --- Modernism (music). --- Modulation (music). --- Music Is. --- Music history. --- Music theory. --- Musical "ation. --- Musical composition. --- Musical expression. --- Musician. --- New York Philharmonic. --- Newspaper. --- Nicolas Slonimsky. --- Olin Downes. --- Orchestra. --- Organist. --- Paul Hindemith. --- Philosopher. --- Phrase (music). --- Piano Music (Louie). --- Piano. --- Polyrhythm. --- Polytonality. --- Popular music. --- Prose. --- Rhythm. --- Richard Strauss. --- Schumann. --- Singing. --- Sonata in B minor (Liszt). --- Songwriter. --- Stuart. --- Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven). --- Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven). --- The Musical Quarterly. --- The New York Times. --- The Orchestra. --- Three Places in New England. --- Time signature. --- Tonality. --- Tone cluster. --- Transcendentalism. --- Universe Symphony (Ives). --- Vachel Lindsay. --- Virgil Thomson. --- Writing. --- Yaddo. --- Yale University. --- Songwriters --- Musicians --- Muziekgeschiedenis --- Biografieën --- Brieven --- Essays --- Iconografie --- Muziekkritiek --- Recensies --- Stijlstudies --- Amerika --- Noord-Amerika --- Verenigde Staten van Amerika --- 20e eeuw --- Beiträge --- Einzelbeiträge --- Sammelwerk --- Aĭvz, Ch., --- Aĭvz, Charlʹz, --- Ives, Charles E. --- Ives, Charles Edward, --- Ives, Ch. E. --- Ajvz, Čarlz --- Komponist --- Danbury, Conn. --- New York, NY --- Ives, Harmony T. --- Ives, George E. --- 1874-1954 --- 20.10.1874-19.05.1954