Aaron Copland A Reader: Selected Writings, 1923-1972

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

About the author

Richard Kostelanetz has edited over 40 collections of essays on American culture, ranging in subject matter from avant-garde fiction to collections of critical writings on John Cage and Frank Zappa. He is also a published critic, writer, and artist.

Summary

Copland is one of America's best-known composers and writers on 20th century music. This volume brings together the best of his published essays on music with previously unpublished material from his diaries, letters and writings, to present a complete picture of Copland as a cultural critic.

Additional text

"These aren't just two superb source books about cornerstone figures in American music, they are, themselves, indelible contributions to the very idea of American culture and how it got that way." -- Buffalo News

Product details

• Authors: Aaron Copland
• Assisted by: Richard Kostelanetz (Editor), Steve Silverman (Editor), Steve Silverstein (Editor), Kostelanetz Richard (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.12.2019
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9780415939409
• ISBN: 978-0-415-93940-9
• Pages: 406
• Dimensions (packing): 15.2 x 22.9 cm
• Weight (packing): 910 g
• Subjects: Jazz, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Literarische Essays, Musiker, Sänger, Bands und Gruppen, Kulturwissenschaften, Mozart, Main, Komponisten und Songwriter, Cultural Studies, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, Musikwissenschaft und Musiktheorie, Beethoven, America, Hindemith, String quartet, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, 20th Century, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, Opera, MUSIC / Essays, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Living, Strings, Independent, follow, Theory of music & musicology, Literary essays, Strong, Composers and songwriters, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology, Slightly, orchestration techniques, American modernism, Young Man, standpoint, sonata, danced, musicology research, american composer, Pierrot Lunaire, twentieth century composers, Sprang, music criticism essays, Nadia Boulanger influence, contemporary classical music analysis, Koussevitzky, Walter Piston, Columbia LP