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Neoclassical Music in America - Voices of Clarity and Restraint (Hardcover)
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Neoclassical Music in America - Voices of Clarity and Restraint (Hardcover)
Series: Modern Traditionalist Classical Music
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From the 1920s to the 1950s, neoclassicism was one of the dominant
movements in American music. Today this music is largely in
eclipse, mostly absent in performance and even from accounts of
music history, in spite of-and initially because of-its adherence
to an expanded tonality. No previous book has focused on the nature
and scope of this musical tradition. Neoclassicism in American
Music: Voices of Clarity and Restraint makes clear what
neoclassicism was, how it emerged in America, and what happened to
it. Music reviewer and scholar, R. James Tobin argues that efforts
to define musical neoclassicism as a style largely fail because of
the stylistic diversity of the music that fall within its scope.
However, neoclassicists as different from one another as the
influential Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith did have a classical
aesthetic in common, the basic characteristics of which extend to
other neoclassicists This study focuses, in particular, on a group
of interrelated neoclassical American composers who came to full
maturity in the 1940s.These included Harvard professor Walter
Piston, who had studied in France in the 1920s; Harold Shapero, the
most traditional of the group; Irving Fine and Arthur Berger, his
colleagues at Brandeis; Lukas Foss, later an experimentalist
composer whose origins lay in neoclassicism of the 1940s; Alexei
Haieff, and Ingolf Dahl, both close associates of Stravinsky; and
others. Tobin surveys the careers of these figures, drawing
especially on early reviews of performances before offering his own
critical assessment of individual works. Adventurous collectors of
recordings, performing musicians, concert and broadcasting
programmers, as well as music and cultural historians and those
interested in musical aesthetics, will find much of interest here.
Dates of composition, approximate duration of individual works, and
discographies add to the work's reference value.
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