附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Trends in twentieth-century American composition. Composers and their audience in the thirties ; Nationalism ; Is music in decline? ; Rendezvous with Apollo : form is feeling ; Reinventing the past : pastiche, collage, or "criticism"? ; Serialism : composer as theorist ; Rapprochement or friendly takeover? ; Postmodern music -- Writing about music. Virgil Thomson and the press ; Music on my beat ; PNM and the Ph. D. ; A tale of two critics : Rosenfeld and Haggin -- Aesthetics and musical analysis. Do we hear what we say we hear? ; New linguistic modes and the new theory ; The octatonic scale -- Retrospective. Backstage at the opera ; A tale of two conductors : Koussevitzky and Mitropoulos ; From my diary : brief encounters.
摘要:In this collection of essays, distinguished composer, theorist, journalist, and educator Arthur Berger invites us into the vibrant and ever-changing American music scene that has been his home for most of the 20th century.
