The great American symphony music, the Depression, and war /
The years of the Great Depression, World War II, and their aftermath brought a sea change in American music. This period of economic, social, and political adversity can truly be considered a musical golden age. In the realm of classical music, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Howard Hanson, Virgil Tho...
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Table of Contents:
- 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.