Music and Imagination (C.E.Norton Lectures) - Softcover

Copland, Aaron

 
9780674589155: Music and Imagination (C.E.Norton Lectures)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0674589157 ISBN 13: 9780674589155
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1952

Inhaltsangabe

Describes the all important role of the imagination in the composition, performance, appreciation and intelligent comprehension of music and surveys its influence on contemporary music

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Just as the spare, lucid textures of his ballet score "Appalachian Spring" represented a deeply considered response to the artistic and social complexities of its day, so the plain-man's prose of "Music and Imagination" encapsulates the creative findings of half a lifetime...How timeless many of Copland's insights remain.--Musical Quarterly "BBC Music "

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One of the most forthright and talented of American composers writes here of the part played by the freely imaginative mind in composing, performing, and listening to music. He urges more frequent performance and more sensitive hearing of the music of new composers. He discusses sound media, new and old, and looks toward a musical future in which the timbres and intensities developed by the electronic engineer may find their musical shape and meaning. He considers the twentieth-century revolt against classical form and tonality, and the recent disturbing political interference with the form and content of music. He analyzes American and contemporary European music and the flowering of specifically Western imagination in Villa-Lobos and Charles Ives. The final chapter is an account, partially autobiographical, of the composer who seeks to find, in an industrial society like that of the United States, justification for the life of art in the life about him. Mr. Copeland, whose spectacular success in arriving at a musical vernacular has brought him a wide audience, will acquire as many readers as he has listeners with this imaginatively written book.

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Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1952
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674589157
ISBN 13 
9780674589155
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