Leonard Bernstein and the language of jazz
- 作者: Baber, Katherine A.,
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- 稽核項: 1 online resource.
- 叢書名: Music in American life
- 標題: History and criticism. , Criticism and interpretation. , Jazz. , Genres & StylesClassical. , Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 Criticism and interpretation. , MUSIC Reference. , Reference. , Bernstein, Leonard, , Jazz , 1900-1999 , MUSIC Genres & Styles -- Classical. , Jazz History and criticism. , Music 20th century -- History and criticism. , MUSIC , Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990. , Electronic books. , Music , Music. , Criticism, interpretation, etc. , General. , MUSIC General.
- ISBN: 0252051211 , 9780252051210
- ISBN: 9780252042379 , 9780252084164 , 0252042379 , 0252084160
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-257) and index. Bernstein's philosophy and the language of jazz -- Trading fours : Bernstein, Copland, Gershwin, and jazz -- A jazz-shaped America : swing styles in Fancy Free and On the Town -- Jazz as a rhetoric of conflict in Symphony numbers 2 : The Age of Anxiety -- West Side Story, modern jazz, and the musical commitment -- "Red, white and blues" : Bernstein's blues and the American soul -- Conclusion.
- 摘要: For Leonard Bernstein, music was a language capable of communicating more directly than in words, and jazz was a crucial part of his musical vocabulary. As an idiom made up of a range of styles - whether stride, boogie-woogie, swing, bebop, or cool - jazz was central to Bernstein's compositional aesthetic, particularly in his approach to tonality and to defining American music. The blues, as a special part of this jazz idiom, also helped Bernstein articulate a personal identity, expressing everything from sensuality to humor to loss and isolation. This text will examine the shifting meanings of Bernstein's jazz language in theatrical and symphonic works from across his career.
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- 系統號: 005279403
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Leonard Bernstein's gifts for drama and connecting with popular audiences made him a central figure in twentieth century American music. Though a Bernstein work might reference anything from modernism to cartoon ditties, jazz permeated every part of his musical identity as a performer, educator, and intellectual. Katherine Baber investigates how jazz in its many styles served Bernstein as a flexible, indeed protean, musical idea. As she shows, Bernstein used jazz to signify American identity with all its tensions and contradictions and to articulate community and conflict, irony and parody, and timely issues of race and gender. Baber provides a thoughtful look at how Bernstein's use of jazz grew out of his belief in the primacy of tonality, music's value as a unique form of human communication, and the formation of national identity in music. She also offers in-depth analyses of On the Town, West Side Story, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and other works to explore fascinating links between Bernstein's art and issues like eclecticism, music's relationship to social engagement, black-Jewish relations, and his own musical identity.
來源: Google Book
來源: Google Book
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