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The writings of Elliott Carter : an American composer looks at modern music /

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Main Author: Carter, Elliott, 1908-
Other Authors: Stone, Kurt, Stone, Else, 1912-
Format: Book
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University, 1977.
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Music > 20th century > History and criticism.
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Table of Contents:
  • The New York Season, 1937
  • Late Winter, New York, 1937
  • The sleeping beauty
  • Season's end in New York, 1937
  • More about Balanchine
  • Opening notes, New York, 1937
  • In the theatre, 1937
  • With the dancers, 1937
  • Homage to Ravel, 1875-1937, Vacation novelties, New York
  • With the dancers, 1938
  • Musical reactions, bold and otherwise
  • Orchestras and audiences, Winter, 1938
  • Recent festivals in Rochester, 1938
  • Season'send, New York, spring, 1938
  • Coolidge Crusade, WPA, New York Season, 1938
  • Once again swing, Also "American Music"
  • The case of Mr. Ives, Further notes on the winter season, 1938/9
  • O fair world of music, At the hall of music
  • Season of Hindemith and Americans, 1939
  • The New York season opens, 1939
  • American music in the New York scene, 1940
  • Stravinsky and other moderns in 1940
  • The changing scene, New York, 1940
  • Films and theatre, 1943 [March-April]
  • American Figure, with landscape [ Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert]
  • (cont.) Theatre and films, 1943 [May-June]
  • Theatre and films, 1943 [November]
  • Ives today: is version and challenge
  • Music as a liberal art
  • Gabriel Faure
  • New publications for music
  • Scores for Graham: Festival at Columbia, 1946
  • Fallacy of the mechanistic approach [The Schillinger system]
  • Walter Piston
  • The composer's viewpoint [The League of Composers]
  • An American destiny [Charles Edward Ives]
  • The function of the composer, 1951
  • Wallingford Riegger
  • The rhythmic basis of American music
  • Current chronicle: New York, 1959 [Roger sessions: Violin concerto]
  • Current chronicle: Italy [ISCM Festival, Rome, 1959]
  • A further step/(1958)
  • The composer's choices
  • Sixty staves to read
  • Shop talk by an American composer
  • Current chronicle: Germany, 1960 [Nicolas Nabokov: Rasputin's end and Dmitri Shostakovitch: Lady MacBeth of Mzensk (Mtsensk)]
  • The milieu of the American composer
  • Letter from Europe
  • Expressionism and American music
  • The time dimension in music
  • (cont.) Current chronicle: New York [Edward Steuermann]
  • Introduction to a poetry reading session by W. H. Auden
  • Charles Ives remembered
  • Sonata for cello and piano, Sonata for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord [Program notes]
  • String quartet no.2 [Program notes]
  • String quartets no.1 and no.2 [Program notes]
  • "The composer is a university commodity"
  • The orchestral composer's point of view
  • Igor Stravinsky, 1882-1971 [Perspectives of new music]
  • Igor Stravinsky, 1882-1971 [Eulogy]
  • Variations for orchestra (1955) [program notes]
  • Music criticism
  • In memoriam: Stefan Wolpe, 1902-1972
  • String quartet no.3 [Program notes]
  • Brass quintet
  • Double concerto for harpsichord and piano with two chamber orchestras; Duo for violin and piano [program notes]
  • Documents of a friendship with Ives
  • Music and the time screen
  • A symphony of three orchestras (1976).

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