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The great American symphony : music, the Depression, and war
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- Creator
- Nicholas Tawa
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xi, 237 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780253002877, 1282103334, 9781282103337, 6612103337, 9786612103339, 9780253353054, 025335305X, 0253002877
- OCLC
- ocn258332383, ocn406518891
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-231) and index.
- Preliminaries. Attitudes -- The times -- Symphonism ascendant -- The symphony's public role -- Symphonies of the mid- to late thirties. The romantic symphony : Barber -- The spiritual symphony : Hanson -- The all-American symphony : Harris -- The muscular symphony : Schuman -- The civil symphony : Carpenter -- Afterthought : Thomson and Cowell -- Symphonies of the war years. Wartime attitudes -- The commemorative symphony : Antheil -- The aesthetic symphony : Diamond -- The dramatic symphony : Bernstein -- The masterly symphony : Piston -- The ambivalent symphony : Barber -- The theatrical symphony : Blitzstein -- Symphonies of the immediate postwar years. The conservatorial symphony : Moore -- The dynamic symphony : Mennin -- The plain-spoken symphony : Thompson -- The August symphony : Copland -- The self-reliant symphony : Creston -- The knotty symphony : Sessions -- American symphonies after 1950. The symphony in the leanest years -- The symphony after 1990