Music of William Schuman, Vincent Persichetti, and Peter Mennin - Voices of Stone and Steel

Informationen zum Autor Walter Simmons has received the National Educational Film Festival Award and the ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award for music criticism. He has contributed articles to The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, American National Biography, Fanfare, Music Journal , and Musical America . He is the author of Voices in the Wilderness: Six American Neo-Romantic Composers (Scarecrow, 2004). Klappentext Schuman, Persichetti, and Mennin were three of the most significant American composers of the 20th century; yet their music has largely disappeared from view since their respective deaths. This book provides a thorough examination of their lives and work, and thereby clarifies their considerable individuality, both as composers and as human beings. Zusammenfassung Schuman! Persichetti! and Mennin were three of the most significant American composers of the 20th century; yet their music has largely disappeared from view since their respective deaths. This book provides a thorough examination of their lives and work! and thereby clarifies their considerable individuality! both as composers and as human beings.

Product details

• Authors: Simmons, Walter Simmons, Simmons Walter
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9781538103838
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0383-8
• No. of pages: 436
• Series: Modern Traditionalist Classical Music; Modern Traditionalist Classica; Modern Traditionalist Classical Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Reference, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Reference works, Music reviews & criticism, Music reviews and criticism, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Western "classical" music, classical music;composers;famous composers