The American Stravinsky: The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938 - Softcover

Murchison, Gayle Minetta

9780472069842: The American Stravinsky: The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0472069845 ISBN 13: 9780472069842

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2013

One of the country's most enduringly successful composers, Aaron Copland created a distinctively American style and aesthetic in works for a diversity of genres and mediums, including ballet, opera, and film. Also active as a critic, mentor, advocate, and concert organizer, he played a decisive role in the growth of serious music in the Americas in the twentieth century.
In The American Stravinsky, Gayle Murchison closely analyzes selected works to discern the specific compositional techniques Copland used, and to understand the degree to which they derived from European models, particularly the influence of Igor Stravinsky. Murchison examines how Copland both Americanized these models and made them his own, thereby finding his own compositional voice. Murchison also discusses Copland's aesthetics of music and his ideas about its purpose and social function.

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About the Author:

Gayle Murchison is Associate Professor of Music and Africana Studies at the College of William and Mary.

Review:

"...Gayle Murchison has succeeded in redefining Copland and his music. Future scholarship should start here." -- Stephen Brown, TLS-The Times Literary Supplement

"...Gayle Murchison has succeeded in redefining Copland and his music. Future scholarship should start here."
—Stephen Brown, TLS-The Times Literary Supplement

(Stephen Brown TLS 2012-11-26)

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