Music and Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome

Combining cultural analysis with historical and personal accounts of a century of musical life at the American Academy in Rome, this volume provides a history of the AAR's Rome Prize in Composition.

List of contents

Introduction
The Rome Prize from Leo Sowerby to David Diamond
A History of the Rome Prize in Music Composition, 1947-2006
The Classicist Origins of the Rome Prize in Music Composition, 1890-1920
"Picked Young Men," Facilitating Women, and Emerging Composers: Establishing an American Prix de Rome
Forging an International Alliance: Leo Sowerby, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, and the Impact of a Rome Prize
Class of '54: Friendship and Ideology at the American Academy in Rome
What They Said: American Composers on Rome
The New Music Scene in Rome and the American Presence since World War II: Excerpts from a Roundtable, Moderated by Richard Trythall
For the Academy
Two Visits in 1981
Music Resources at the American Academy in Rome
Appendix: Composers at the American Academy in Rome, 1921-40
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

About the author

Martin Brody

Product details

• Authors: Martin Brody
• Assisted by: Martin Brody (Editor), Martin (Customer) Brody (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2014
• EAN: 9781580462457
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-245-7
• No. of pages: 348
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Eastman Studies in Music; Eastman Studies in Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous