Matthew Mugmon Aaron Copland and the American Legacy of Gustav Mahler (Hardback) For Sale

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Title: Aaron Copland and the American Legacy of Gustav Mahler
Condition: New
Author: Matthew Mugmon
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 1580469647
EAN: 9781580469647
ISBN: 9781580469647
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Release Date: 08/15/2019
Description: Reveals how Aaron Copland\'s complex relationship with the music of Gustav Mahler shaped his vision for American music in the twentieth century.The iconic American composer Aaron Copland (1900-1990) is often credited with creating an unmistakably American musical style, a style free from the powerful sway of the European classics that long dominated the art-music scene inthe United States. Yet Copland was strongly attracted to the music of the late-romantic Austrian composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), whose monumental symphonies and powerful songs have captivated and challenged American audiencesfor more than a century. Drawing extensively on archival and musical materials, Aaron Copland and the American Legacy of Gustav Mahler offers the first detailed exploration of Copland\'s multifaceted relationshipwith Mahler\'s music and its lasting consequences for music in America. Matthew Mugmon demonstrates that Copland, inspired by Mahler\'s example, blended modernism and romanticism in shaping a vision for American music in the twentieth century, and that he did so through his multiple roles as composer, teacher, critic, and orchestral tastemaker. Copland\'s career-long engagement with Mahler\'s music, as Mugmon compellingly illustrates, intersected with Copland\'s own Jewish identity and with his links to such towering figures in American music as Nadia Boulanger, Serge Koussevitzky, and Leonard Bernstein. MATTHEW MUGMON is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Arizona.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Book Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Release Year: 2019

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