The resonance of a small voice : William Walton and the violin concerto in England between 1900 and 1940 / by Petrocelli, Paolo

Table of Contents: “…TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; THE CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA; CHRONOLOGY; PART I; PART II; PART III; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; DISCOGRAPHY; FILMOGRAPHY.…”
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After the Rite : Stravinsky's path to neoclassicism (1914-1925) / by Carr, Maureen A.

Table of Contents: “…Pulcinella (1919-20) ; Les cinq doigts (1921) : "Larghetto" (January 31, 1921) ; Mavra (1921-22) -- Octet (1919-23), Cinq pieces monométriques (frags. 192?), Concerto for piano and winds (1923-24). Introduction ; Concerto pour piano suivi d'orchestra d'harmonie (Concerto for piano and winds) (1923-24) ; Conclusion -- Piano sonata (1924) and Serenade in A (1925). …”
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Blue rhythm fantasy : big band jazz arranging in the swing era / by Wriggle, John

Table of Contents: “…Business and politics : the landscape -- Ace race arranger : the Broadway music clinic -- Harlem on Broadway : nightclub and theater revues -- Theory and practice : the fundamentals -- Episode and interlude : Broadway modernism -- Futuristic ragtime : style and identity -- Heavy stuff : classics and concertos -- Give me some skin : novelty songs and ballads -- Jungle madness : jazz dance and exotic numbers.…”
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Bartók, Hungary, and the renewal of tradition : case studies in the intersection of modernity and nationality / by Schneider, David E., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Tradition rejected : Bartók's polemics and the nineteenth-century Hungarian musical inheritance -- Tradition maintained : nationalism, verbunkos, Kossuth and the Rhapsody, op. 1 -- Tradition transformed : "The night's music" and the pastoral roots of a modern style -- Tradition challenged : confronting Stravinsky -- Tradition transcribed : the Rhapsody for violin no. 1, the politics of folk-music research and the artifice of authenticity -- Tradition restored : the Violin concerto, verbunkos and Hungary on the eve of World War II.…”
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Music divided : Bartók's legacy in cold war culture / by Fosler-Lussier, Danielle, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Bartók's Concerto for orchestra and the demise of Hungary's "third road" -- A compromised composer : Bartók's music and Western Europe's fresh start -- "Bartók is ours" : the Voice of America and Hungarian control over Bartók's legacy -- Bartók and his publics : defining the "modern classic" -- Beyond the folk song; or, what was Hungarian socialist realist music? …”
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She can bring us home : Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, civil rights pioneer / by Kiesel, Diane

Table of Contents: “…Push, pluck, prominence and merit -- Among the favored few -- As if I had thrown a bomb into the room -- The count -- Petunia Ticklebritches -- Everything was precise -- We went, we saw, we were stunned -- Stupid, vacant, and void of hope -- As the moonlight turned barn roofs to silver -- Tell Claude Ferebee to keep his shirt on -- Madeline, my concerto -- The skipper -- Some stuff -- Every bone in the body -- A matter for grave concern -- One of the coldest winters we ever had -- As good as I could -- You were grand as ever -- A bad bitter pill -- A citizen concerned with international affairs -- Woman power -- I should not be here but I had to come -- Epilogue: going home.…”
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Well-tempered woodwinds : Friedrich von Huene and the making of early music in a new world / by Burgess, Geoffrey (Oboist)

Table of Contents: “…Recordings of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos with recorders, 1941-1993 -- Appendix 5. …”
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Music at the limits / by Said, Edward W.

Table of Contents: “…The music itself : Glenn Gould's contrapuntal vision ; Remembrance of things played : presence and memory in the pianist's art ; Pomp and circumstance (on musical festivals) ; On Richard Strauss ; Die Walküre, Aida, X ; Music and feminism ; Maestro for the masses (review of Understanding Toscanini) ; Middle age and performers ; The Vienna Philharmonic : the complete Beethoven symphonies and concertos ; The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni ; Glenn Gould at the Metropolitan Museum ; Giulio Cesare ; Bluebeard's Castle, Erwartung ; Extreme occasions (on Celibidache) ; Peter Sellars's Mozart ; András Schiff at Carnegie Hall -- pt. …”
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Nadia Boulanger : thoughts on music / by Boulanger, Nadia

Table of Contents: “…Lecture for the BBC, "French choral music" (1936) ; Lecture for the BBC, Music of the week (1937) ; Lecture for the BBC, Music of the week ["Dumbarton Oaks concerto"] (1938) ; "La musique et la vie quotidienne," The Listener (1938) ; Script for a program of Bach cantata excerpts for the Club d'Essai (1947) ; Script for a program of Haydn trios for the Club d'Essai (1948) -- Thinking at the close. …”
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