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Composer's voices from Ives to Ellington : an oral history of American music / Vivian Perlis and Lib...

Composer's voices from Ives to Ellington : an oral hist...

Composer's voices from Ives to Ellington : an oral history of American music / Vivian Perlis and Lib...

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Composer's voices from Ives to Ellington : an oral history of American music / Vivian Perlis and Libby Van Cleve.

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Full title

Composer's voices from Ives to Ellington : an oral history of American music / Vivian Perlis and Libby Van Cleve.

Author / Creator

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.

Call Numbers

N780.904/75 DISC

Record Identifier

74VK6boyoVx3

MMS ID

991021012559702626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

xxv, 477 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Contents

1. Introducing the century : 1 January 1900 -- Charles Ives -- 2. On ragtime and Eubie Blake -- 3. From the early modernists -- Leo Ornstein -- Edgard Varese -- Carl Ruggles -- Dane Rudhyar -- Charles Seeger -- Henry Cowell -- 4. On the Jazz age and George Gershwin -- 5. With a French accent : Nadia...

Publication information

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.

Place of Publication

Connecticut

Date Published

c2005.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

"The first decades of the twentieth century were a fertile and fascinating period in American musical history. This book and the two CDs that accompany it present an exceptional collection of interviews with and about the most significant musical figures of the era. Tapping the unparalleled materials contained in the Oral History American Music arc...

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Full title

Composer's voices from Ives to Ellington : an oral history of American music / Vivian Perlis and Libby Van Cleve.

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Notes

General note

An oral history of American music.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

c2005.

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

N780.904/75 DISC

Record Identifier

74VK6boyoVx3

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK6boyoVx3

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ISBN

0300106734 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780300106732 (cloth : alk. paper)

DDC

780.904

MMS ID

991021012559702626

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