Leonard Bernstein and the language of jazz / Katherine Baber.
For Leonard Bernstein, music was a language capable of communicating more directly than in words, and jazz was a crucial part of his musical vocabulary. As an idiom made up of a range of styles - whether stride, boogie-woogie, swing, bebop, or cool - jazz was central to Bernstein's compositiona...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2019]
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Series: | Music in American life.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |