Tawa's musical descriptions are vivid and personal, and invite music lovers and trained musicians alike to turn again to the marvelous and lasting music of this time.
Tawa's musical descriptions are vivid and personal, and invite music lovers and trained musicians alike to turn again to the marvelous and lasting music of this time.
Nicholas Tawa is co-founder of the Sonneck Society, now the Society for American Music. He is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Contents Preface 1. Preliminaries Attitudes The Times Symphonism Ascendant The Symphony's Public Role 2. Symphonies of the Mid- to Late Thirties The Romantic Symphony: Barber The Spiritual Symphony: Hanson The All-American Symphony: Harris The Muscular Symphony: Schuman The Civil Symphony: Carpenter Afterthought: Thomson and Cowell 3. Symphonies of the War Years Wartime Attitudes The Commemorative Symphony: Antheil The Aesthetic Symphony: Diamond The Dramatic Symphony: Bernstein The Masterly Symphony: Piston The Ambivalent Symphony: Barber The Theatrical Symphony: Blitzstein 4. Symphonies of the Immediate Postwar Years The Conservatorial Symphony: Moore The Dynamic Symphony: Mennin The Plain-Spoken Symphony: Thompson The August Symphony: Copland The Self-Reliant Symphony: Creston The Knotty Symphony: Sessions 5. American Symphonies after 1950 The Symphony in the Leanest Years The Symphony after 1990 Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Contents Preface 1. Preliminaries Attitudes The Times Symphonism Ascendant The Symphony's Public Role 2. Symphonies of the Mid- to Late Thirties The Romantic Symphony: Barber The Spiritual Symphony: Hanson The All-American Symphony: Harris The Muscular Symphony: Schuman The Civil Symphony: Carpenter Afterthought: Thomson and Cowell 3. Symphonies of the War Years Wartime Attitudes The Commemorative Symphony: Antheil The Aesthetic Symphony: Diamond The Dramatic Symphony: Bernstein The Masterly Symphony: Piston The Ambivalent Symphony: Barber The Theatrical Symphony: Blitzstein 4. Symphonies of the Immediate Postwar Years The Conservatorial Symphony: Moore The Dynamic Symphony: Mennin The Plain-Spoken Symphony: Thompson The August Symphony: Copland The Self-Reliant Symphony: Creston The Knotty Symphony: Sessions 5. American Symphonies after 1950 The Symphony in the Leanest Years The Symphony after 1990 Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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