Music and the Skillful Listener - American Women Compose the Natural World

Informationen zum Autor Denise Von Glahn Klappentext Denise Von Glahn is Professor of Musicology and Director of the Center for Music of the Americas in the College of Music at Florida State University. She is author (with Michael Broyles) of Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices (IUP, 2007). Zusammenfassung Explores the relationship between listening and musical composition focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the sounds of the natural world Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. A Context for Composers: Within the Nature-Writing Tradition I. Nature as a Summer Home 2. Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (Mrs. H. H. A. Beach) 3. Marion Bauer 4. Louise Talma II. Nature all Around Us 5. Pauline Oliveros 6. Joan Tower 7. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich III. Beyond the EPA and Earth Day 8. Victoria Bond 9. Libby Larsen 10. Emily Doolittle Conclusions: The Repercussions of Listening Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Denise von Glahn, von Glahn Denise, Denise Von Glahn
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2013
• EAN: 9780253006622
• ISBN: 978-0-253-00662-2
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Music, Nature, Place; Music, Nature, Place; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Klassik, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA