American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900-1950 - Couverture souple

Wilder, Alec

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195019253 ISBN 13 : 9780195019254

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1975

Synopsis

...a notable and overdue contribution to our evaluation of Western music in the twentieth century.' The Times Literary Supplement .

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is the definitive work on the great songwriters who dominated the classical era of American popular music. Uniquely analytical yet engagingly informal, the book draws on over 700 musical examples to demonstrate the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic qualities that distinguish American popular music and transformed it into an authentic art form. Tracing its roots to 1890s ragtime, Wilder shows how the American style was incorporated into mainstream popular music and developed into the brilliantly inventive, and often musically subtle, crowd-pleasers of Kern, Berlin, Porter, Gershwin, and Rodgers.

Revue de presse

A bible for all song-freaks, it includes a long chapter on Rodgers that backs up enthusiasm with analysis. (BBC Music Magazine, December 1999)

'American Popular Song-The Great Innovators 1900-1950 by Alec Wilder, recently republished by Oxford University Press (Price #17.50 and worth every penny)' National Youth Jazz Orchestra, Spring/Summer 1993

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1975
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195019253
• ISBN 13: 9780195019254
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 576
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8; Assago Milano; Italie