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Author Perlis, Vivian.

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

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 477 pages) : illustrations.
Series An oral history of American music
Oral history of American music.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-443) and index.
Contents Introducing the century : 1 January 1900 : Charles Ives -- On ragtime and Eubie Blake -- From the early modernists. Leo Ornstein ; Edgard Varèse ; Carl Ruggles ; Dane Rudhyar ; Charles Seeger ; Henry Cowell -- On the jazz age and George Gershwin -- With a French accent : Nadia Boulanger -- From the Boulangerie. Virgil Thomson ; Aaron Copland ; Roy Harris -- Exploring the world of Duke Ellington.
Note Print version record.
Summary Annotation 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 archive at Yale University, Composers' Voices from Ives to Ellingtonis a unique account of what it was like for musicians and composers to live and work in those years. It is also the story of the making of the archive, as told by Vivian Perlis, who personally conducted many of the interviews. Music aficionados can now hear Eubie Blake describe the birth of ragtime or listen to a firsthand account of how Ira Gershwin came to write those famous lines in "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off." In-depth interviews with such figures as Henry Cowell, Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, and Duke Ellington are included in the book, which also features chapter introductions and fascinating sidebars, illustrations, and anecdotes throughout. Two CDs complete the set, enabling today's listener to enjoy the remarkablen experience of hearing the actual voices and the music of American composers of the early twentieth century.
Subject Composers -- United States -- 20th century -- Interviews.
Jazz musicians -- United States -- 20th century -- Interviews.
Composers -- United States.
Jazz musicians.
Musicians -- United States.
MUSIC -- History & Criticism.
MUSIC -- General.
Composers. (OCoLC)fst00871620
Jazz musicians. (OCoLC)fst00982205
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Interviews. (OCoLC)fst01423832
Added Author Van Cleve, Libby.
Other Form: Print version: Perlis, Vivian. Composers voices from Ives to Ellington. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005 0300106734 9780300106732 (DLC) 2005000361 (OCoLC)57391257
ISBN 9780300138375 (electronic bk.)
0300138377 (electronic bk.)
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