| Description |
xvi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
The master musicians |
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Master musicians series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Elliott Carter now -- Remembering Mr. Carter (a double portrait) -- A brief life of a very long life -- A modernistic education (1924-1935) -- Musician, wrestling (1935-1946) -- Turning points (1946-1948) -- Back to modernism. Back to futurism. Back to New York (1948-1975) -- Carter vs. poets (round 1) -- Macro Carter/Micro Carter (1983-1999) -- Multi-vehicle accidents -- Bagatelles -- Carter vs. poets (round 2) -- Farewell symphonies -- Epilogue: "Every note has life in it." |
| Summary |
This text surveys the life and work of the great American composer Elliott Carter (1908-2012). It examines his formative, and often ambivalent, engagements with Charles Ives and other 'ultra-modernists', with the classicist ideas he encountered at Harvard and in his three years of study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris; and with the populism developed by his friends Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein in Depression-era New York, and the unique synthesis of modernist idioms that he began to develop in the late 1940s. |
| Subject |
Carter, Elliott, 1908-2012.
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Carter, Elliott, 1908-2012 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Composers -- United States -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780190259150 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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0190259159 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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