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

Murchison, Gayle Minetta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0472099841 ISBN 13: 9780472099849

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2012

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Gale 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)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0472099841
• ISBN 13: 9780472099849
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304