Author: David C Paul
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252094697
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 315
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American composer Charles Ives (1874–1954) has gone from being a virtual unknown to become one of the most respected and lauded composers in American music. In this sweeping survey of intellectual and musical history, David C. Paul tells the new story of how Ives's music was shaped by shifting conceptions of American identity within and outside of musical culture, charting the changes in the reception of Ives across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. Paul focuses on the critics, composers, performers, and scholars whose contributions were most influential in shaping the critical discourse on Ives, many of them marquee names of American musical culture themselves, including Henry Cowell, Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, and Leonard Bernstein. Paul explores both how Ives positioned his music amid changing philosophical and aesthetic currents and how others interpreted his contributions to American music. Although Ives's initial efforts to find a public in the early twenties attracted a few devotees, the resurgence of interest in the American literary past during the thirties made a concert staple of his "Concord" Sonata, a work dedicated to nineteenth-century transcendentalist writers. Paul shows how Ives was subsequently deployed as an icon of American freedom during the early Cold War period and how he came to be instigated at the head of a line of "American maverick" composers. Paul also examines why a recent cadre of scholars has beset the composer with Gilded Age social anxieties. By embedding Ives' reception within the changing developments of a wide range of fields including intellectual history, American studies, literature, musicology, and American politics and society in general, Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an Iconic Composer greatly advances our understanding of Ives and his influence on nearly a century of American culture.
Author: Steven Brower
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847848132
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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Beautifully illustrated and unparalleled in scope, this is an elegant visual celebration befitting the life and work of the "prince of the piano." Duke Ellington was the undisputed father of the American songbook. A prolific writer and consummate performer, Ellington was the author of such standards as "Solitude," "Prelude to a Kiss," and "It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got that Swing)." With a career that spanned five decades, he is one of the defining composers of the Jazz Age. With unprecedented access to the Ellington family archives, this long overdue book illuminates the life and work of an icon of twentieth-century music from his humble beginnings to his long-lasting success. Every stage of Ellington’s career is brought to life, from sepia photographs of his early days in Washington, DC, to colorful playbills from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, his triumphant tours of Europe in the 1930s, and his pioneering explosion of form and genre in the 1940s and beyond. Alongside more than two hundred stunning images, contributions from peers such as Dave Brubeck, Cornel West, Quincy Jones, and Tony Bennett shed light on Ellington’s musical legacy, while the voice of his granddaughter Mercedes reveals the character behind the charisma, and the man behind the piano.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
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Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Considers alleged improper influence of large publishing houses in the operation of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, a music publishing association. Hearing includes "Articles of Association of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers" (June 1, 1954. 459-514 p.).
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Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Author: A. J. Roycroft
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486816281
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Thorough discourse and rigorous analysis, enlivened by wit, offers a classic exposition of the endgame. Commentary, statistics, and more than 400 studies have been completely revised and updated by the author.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
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Languages : en
Pages : 750
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Author: United States. Congress. House
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Languages : en
Pages : 2644
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Committee Serial No. 10.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1846
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