The great American symphony : music, the Depression, and war /

Main Author: Tawa, Nicholas E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.
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245 1 4 |a The great American symphony :  |b music, the Depression, and war /  |c Nicholas Tawa. 
260 1 4 |a Bloomington :  |b Indiana University Press,  |c c2009. 
300 1 4 |a xi, 237 p. ;  |c 25 cm. 
504 1 4 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-231) and index. 
505 1 4 |a 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. 
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