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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, 1963
Series:Norton library ; N198
Subjects:
Music.
Table of Contents:
  • The pleasure of music
  • Creativity in America
  • Music as an aspect of the human spirit
  • The conductor : Serge Koussevitzky
  • The teacher : Nadia Boulanger
  • The composer : Igor Stravinsky
  • The critic : Paul Rosenfeld
  • The pianist : William Kapell
  • At the thought of Mozart
  • Berlioz today
  • Liszt as pioneer
  • Fauré Centennial in America : 1945
  • From a composer's journal
  • The younger generation of American composers : 1926-59
  • European festivals and premières : Zurich 1926, Baden-Baden 1927, Paris 1928, London 1931, Berlin 1932
  • The composers of South America : 1941
  • The Reviewing stand. Music by : Darius Milhaud (1947), Benjamin Britten (1947), Stefan Wolpe (1948), Leon Kirchner (1950), William Schuman (1951) ; Book about : Virgil Thomson's Musical state (1939), Schönberg and his school (1949), The life and music of Bartók (1953)
  • "Are my ears on wrong?" : a polemic
  • Interpreters and new music
  • The dilemma of our symphony orchestras
  • Shop talk : on the notation of rhythm.