The great American symphony music, the Depression, and war /
Tawa, Nicholas E.
The great American symphony music, the Depression, and war / [electronic resource] : Nicholas Tawa - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009 - 1 online resource (xi, 237 p.)
Description based on print version record
Includes bibliographical references and index
Preliminaries. Attitudes -- The times -- Symphonism ascendant -- The symphony's public role -- Symphonies of the mid- to late thirties. The romantic symphony : Barber -- The spiritual symphony : Hanson -- The all-American symphony : Harris -- The muscular symphony : Schuman -- The civil symphony : Carpenter -- Afterthought : Thomson and Cowell -- Symphonies of the war years. Wartime attitudes -- The commemorative symphony : Antheil -- The aesthetic symphony : Diamond -- The dramatic symphony : Bernstein -- The masterly symphony : Piston -- The ambivalent symphony : Barber -- The theatrical symphony : Blitzstein -- Symphonies of the immediate postwar years. The conservatorial symphony : Moore -- The dynamic symphony : Mennin -- The plain-spoken symphony : Thompson -- The August symphony : Copland -- The self-reliant symphony : Creston -- The knotty symphony : Sessions -- American symphonies after 1950. The symphony in the leanest years -- The symphony after 1990
Mode of access: Internet
9780253002877 (electronic bk.) 0253002877 (electronic bk.) 9780253353054 (cloth : alk. paper) 025335305X (cloth : alk. paper)
Symphony--United States--20th century
World War, 1939-1945--Music and the war
The great American symphony music, the Depression, and war / [electronic resource] : Nicholas Tawa - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009 - 1 online resource (xi, 237 p.)
Description based on print version record
Includes bibliographical references and index
Preliminaries. Attitudes -- The times -- Symphonism ascendant -- The symphony's public role -- Symphonies of the mid- to late thirties. The romantic symphony : Barber -- The spiritual symphony : Hanson -- The all-American symphony : Harris -- The muscular symphony : Schuman -- The civil symphony : Carpenter -- Afterthought : Thomson and Cowell -- Symphonies of the war years. Wartime attitudes -- The commemorative symphony : Antheil -- The aesthetic symphony : Diamond -- The dramatic symphony : Bernstein -- The masterly symphony : Piston -- The ambivalent symphony : Barber -- The theatrical symphony : Blitzstein -- Symphonies of the immediate postwar years. The conservatorial symphony : Moore -- The dynamic symphony : Mennin -- The plain-spoken symphony : Thompson -- The August symphony : Copland -- The self-reliant symphony : Creston -- The knotty symphony : Sessions -- American symphonies after 1950. The symphony in the leanest years -- The symphony after 1990
Mode of access: Internet
9780253002877 (electronic bk.) 0253002877 (electronic bk.) 9780253353054 (cloth : alk. paper) 025335305X (cloth : alk. paper)
Symphony--United States--20th century
World War, 1939-1945--Music and the war