The Sounds of Place

Music and the American Cultural Landscape

Denise Von Glahn (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2021
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
9780252086076 (ISBN)

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Composers like Charles Ives, Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich created works that indelibly commemorated American places. Denise Von Glahn analyzes the soundscapes of fourteen figures whose "place pieces" tell us much about the nation's search for its own voice and about its ever-changing sense of self. She connects each composer's feelings about the United States and their reasons for creating a piece to the music, while analyzing their compositional techniques, tunes, and styles. Approaching the compositions in chronological order, Von Glahn reveals how works that celebrated the wilderness gave way to music engaged with humanity's influence--benign and otherwise--on the landscape, before environmentalism inspired a return to nature themes in the late twentieth century. Wide-ranging and astute, The Sounds of Place explores high art music's role in the making of national myth and memory.

Denise Von Glahn is the Curtis Mayes Orpheus Professor of Musicology at Florida State University, where she is also coordinator of the Musicology Area. She is the author of Libby Larsen: Composing an American Life and Music and the Skillful Listener: American Women Compose the Natural World.

CoverTitleCopyrightCONTENTSIllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: A Place to StartAnthony Philip Heinrich: The War of the Elements and the Tundering of NiagaraWilliam Henry Fry: Niagara SymphonyGeorge Frederick Bristow: Niagara: Symphony for Grand Orchestra and ChorusThe Housatonic at StockbridgeFron Hanover Square North, at the End of a Tragic Day, The Voice of the People Again RoseAaron Copland: Quiet City and Music for a Great CityEdgard Varése: AmériquesDuke Ellington: Harlem Air Shaft and HarlemWilliam Grant Still: Kaintuck' and American ScenesRoy Harris CimarronFerde Grofé: Mississippi Suite, Grand Canyon Suite, Hudson River Suite, and Niagara Falls SuiteRobert Starer: Hudson Valley SuiteDana Paul Perna: Prout's Neck and Three Places on Long IslandEllen Taaffe Zwilich: Symphony No. 4, The GardensSteve Reich: Vermont Counterpoint, The Desert Music, New York Counterpoint, and City LifeConclusions: Where We AreNotesSelect BibliographyIndexBack cover

Erscheinungsdatum	15.09.2021
Zusatzinfo	6 black & white photographs, 8 line drawings, 39 music examples
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 235 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
ISBN-13	9780252086076 / 9780252086076
Zustand	Neuware