Voices in the Wilderness: Six American Neo-romantic Composers - Couverture souple

Simmons, Walter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0810857286 ISBN 13 : 9780810857285

Editeur : Scarecrow Press, 2006

Synopsis

Despite the Modernist search for new and innovative aesthetics and rejection of traditional tonality, several twentieth century composers have found their own voice while steadfastly relying on the aesthetics and techniques of Romanticism and 19th century composition principles. Musicological and reference texts have regarded these composers as isolated exceptions to modern thoughts of composition_exceptions of little importance, treated simplistically and superficially. Music critic and scholar Walter Simmons, however, believes these composers and their works should be taken seriously. They are worthy of more scholarly consideration, and deserve proper analysis, assessment, and discussion in their own regard. In Voices in the Wilderness, the first in a series of books celebrating the Twentieth-Century Traditionalist, Simmons looks at six Neo-Romantic composers: Ernest Bloch Howard Hanson Vittorio Giannini Paul Creston Samuel Barber Nicolas Flagello Through biographical overviews and a comprehensive assessment of musical works, Simmons provides readers with a clear understanding of the significance of the composers, their bodies of work, and their placement in musicological history. The chapters delve deeply and objectively into each composers oeuvre, addressing their origins, stylistic traits and consistencies, phases of development, strengths and weaknesses, and affinities with other composers. The composers most representative works are identified, and each chapter concludes with a discography of essential recordings. Visit the authors website to read samples from the book and to listen to representative excerpts of each composers work.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Walter Simmons has received the National Educational Film Festival Award and the ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award for music criticism. He has contributed articles to The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, American National Biography, Fanfare, Music Journal, and Musical America.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Scarecrow Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0810857286
• ISBN 13: 9780810857285
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432
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• Personne responsable: non disponible