TY - BOOK AU - Tawa,Nicholas E. TI - The great American symphony: music, the Depression, and war SN - 9780253002877 (electronic bk.) PY - 2009/// CY - Bloomington PB - Indiana University Press KW - Symphony KW - United States KW - 20th century KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Music and the war N1 - 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 UR - http://www.netlibrary.com.libraryumpsa.idm.oclc.org/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=276692 ER -