The state of music & other writings, Virgil Thomson ; Tim Page, editor

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The state of music & other writings, Virgil Thomson ; Tim Page, editor

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Virgil Thomson ; Tim Page, editor

Instantiates

• The state of music & other writings

Publication

• New York, NY, The Library of America, 2016

Copyright

• ©2016

Note

• The book, Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles 1940-1954, Library of America volume 258, published in 2014, was the "first volume" of the Library of America's definitive Virgil Thomson edition
• Includes index of compositions by Virgil Thomson

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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volume

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• nc

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rdacarrier

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

Contents

The state of music. A 1961 preface ; Our island home, or what it feels like to be a musician ; The neighbors, or chiefly about painters and painting ; Survivals of an earlier civilization, or shades of poets dead and gone ; Life among the natives, or musical habits and customs ; Life in the big city, or the civil status of musicians ; How composers eat, or who does what to whom and who gets paid ; Why composers write how, or the economic determinism of musical style ; Composers' politics, or professional bodies versus the secular state ; Intellectual freedom, or what can and cannot be censored ; How to write a piece, or functional design in music ; Back to the womb, James, or how modern music gets that way ; Back to politics, or how to run an island civilization ; A 1961 postlude -- Virgil Thomson. Missouri landscape with figures ; A Kansas City childhood ; A musician's adolescence ; My World War I ; Harvard, Jumping off place for Europe ; The first time I saw Paris ; An end to education ; Antheil, Joyce, and Pound ; Langlois, Butts and Stein ; 17 Quai Voltaire ; Europe after 1925 ; American interlude ; An epoch ends ; The new romanticism ; A portrait of Gertrude Stein ; Gertrude and the young French poet ; Neighborhoods and portraits ; Adopted by the modern art distributors ; Orchestrations and contracts ; Four saints in three cities ; Communists all around and high life too ; Show business for Uncle Sam ; Theatrical thirties ; Pastoral ; The quiet war ; Mozart, one musicians 's best friend ; The paper ; Europe in America ; All roads lead to Paris ; France in 1945 ; Europe in 1946 ; The year I was fifty ; Five years go by ; Traipsing and trouping ; A distaste for music -- From American music since 1910. America's musical maturity ; American musical traits ; The Ives case ; Ruggles ; Varèse ; Aaron Copland ; Looking backward ; Cage and the collage of noises ; Let us now praise famous men -- From Music with words : a composer's view. A formal introduction to the subject ; Word-groups ; Occasions for singing ; Making everything clear ; Helping the performers ; The longs and shorts in singing ; Instrumental helps and hindrances ; The "musical idea" ; Both words and emotions are important ; Opera in the vernacular ; The nature of opera ; After all ; Appendix [the International Phonetic Alphabet] -- Other writings. Music and culture. Music's tradition of constant change ; Music in the 1950s ; Music now ; Music does not flow -- Music for the theater. Opera librettos ; Music for Much Ado ; The rocky road of American opera ; The state of opera -- Opera reviewed. Blitzstein on record : from Regina to Juno ; The Crucible and The Wings of the Dove ; Stravinsky's Flood : a spectable for television -- Critics and criticism. On good terms with all muses ; A free critical spirit ; B. H. Haggin's Toscanini ; Instruments of criticism ; The state of music criticism -- Memories and milestones. A. Everett "Chick" Austin, Jr. ; Nadia Boulanger at seventy-five ; William Flanagan ; Elisabeth Lutyens ; Edwin Denby ; Lou Harrison at seventy -- Book reviews. Sincere appreciation ; Wanda Landowska ; How dead is Arnold Schönberg ; On being discovered ; The tradition of sensibility ; "Craft-Igor" and the whole Stravinsky ; The genius type ; Berlioz, Boulez, and Piaf ; Scenes from Show Biz ; Untold tales ; Elliott Carter ; Wickedly wonderful widow ; Making black music ; A good writer ; The New Grove ; Copland on Copland

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913499947

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21 cm.

Extent

xii, 1169 pages, 34 unnumbered pages of plates

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9781598534672

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2015935696

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655

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illustrations, portraits, music

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.b16418177

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(OCoLC)913499947