Looking and listening : conversations between modern art and music / by Leach, Brenda Lynne

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Twentieth century composers by Ewen, David, 1907-1985

Table of Contents: “…--Ralph Vaughan Williams.--George Gershwin.--Bibliography of modern composers (p. [283]-297)…”

Composers' voices from Ives to Ellington : an oral history of American music / by Perlis, Vivian

Table of Contents: “…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. …”

Composers voices from Ives to Ellington : an oral history of American music / by Perlis, Vivian, Van Cleve, Libby

Table of Contents: “…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. …”
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American rhapsody : writers, musicians, movie stars, and one great building / by Pierpont, Claudia Roth

Table of Contents: “…Scott Fitzgerald -- Behind the Mask: Bert Williams and Stepin Fetchit -- Jazzbo: George Gershwin -- The Silver Spire: The Chrysler Building -- Tough Guy: Dashiell Hammett -- The Collector: Peggy Guggenheim -- Born For The Part: Katharine Hepburn -- The Player Kings: Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier -- Method Man: Marlon Brando -- Another Country: James Baldwin -- A Raised Voice: Nina Simone.…”

The American way

Table of Contents: “…Excerpts from: Rhapsody in blue / George Gershwin -- Decoration Day / Charles Ives -- First construction (in metal) / John Cage -- A celebration of some 100 x 150 notes / Elliott Carter -- Mme Press died last week at 90 / Morton Feldman -- Appalachian spring / Aaron Copland -- Harmonium / John Adams -- Lonely house (from Street scene) / Kurt Weill -- In C / Terry Riley -- Symphonic dances (from West side story) / Leonard Bernstein.…”

Masterworks of 20th-century music : the modern repertory of the symphony orchestra / by Lee, Douglas A.

Table of Contents: “…John Adams -- Samuel Barber -- Béla Bartók -- Alban Berg -- Leonard Bernstein -- Benjamin Britten -- Aaron Copland -- John Corigliano -- Peter Maxwell Davies -- Manuel de Falla -- George Gershwin -- Alberto Ginastera -- Henryk Górecki -- Paul Hindemith -- Gustav Holst -- Charles Ives -- Zoltán Kodály -- Witold Lutosławski -- Darius Milhaud -- Carl Nielsen -- Carl Orff -- Francis Poulenc -- Sergei Prokofiev -- Maurice Ravel -- Dmitri Shostakovich -- Igor Stravinsky -- Ralph Vaughan Williams -- William Walton -- Anton Webern.…”
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Tonality as drama : closure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas / by Latham, Edward David

Table of Contents: “…Tonality as drama: an introduction -- Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives -- Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama -- The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911) -- The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935) -- The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947) -- The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).…”
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Looking and listening : conversations between modern art and music / by Leach, Brenda Lynne

Table of Contents: “…Prelude : Artists respond to music -- Stuart Davis and the art of jazz -- Arthur Dove and George Gershwin: A brush with Rhapsody in Blue -- Romare Bearden and visual jazz -- European artists and American jazz -- Kandinsky and Schoenberg : On the verge. …”

Free as gods : how the Jazz Age reinvented modernism / by Riley, Charles A., II

Table of Contents: “…Enter the ballets russes ; One of those fabulous flights: Cole Porter ; Stairway to paradise: George Gershwin ; Inevitable Paris beckoned: John Dos Passos and e.e cummings ; Dancing on dynamite: Nancy Cunard ; From flappers to philosophers: F. …”
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Schoenberg and Hollywood modernism / by Marcus, Kenneth H.

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Joyaux du 20e siècle = Jewels of the 20th century.

Table of Contents: “…Pavane pour une infante défunte / Maurice Ravel (6:26) -- Concerto pour violon no. 1 en ré majeur, op. 19 (Allegro moderato) / Sergei Prokofiev (7:41) -- Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune / Claude Debussy (9:57) -- Sonate pour flûte, violon et piano (Adagio) / Bohuslav Martinu (4:14) -- Chant du ménestrel = Minstrel's song, op. 71 / Alexandre Glazunov (4:03) -- Gymnopédie no. 1 / Érik Satie (3:40) -- Choros no. 1 / Heitor Villa-Lobos (5:57) -- Prélude no. 5 / André Mathieu (3:45) -- Concierto de Aranjuez (Allegro con spirito) / Joaquín Rodrigo (6:26) -- Symphonie de chambre en fa majeur, op. 73 pour cordes, vents et harpe (Allegretto) / Dmitri Shostakovich (7:11) -- Concerto en fa (Allegro) / George Gershwin (14:03).…”
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Modernist America : art, music, movies, and the globalization of American culture / by Pells, Richard H.

Making music modern : New York in the 1920s / by Oja, Carol J., 1953-

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Music of the twentieth-century avant-garde : a biocritical sourcebook /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Henry Cowell -- Luigi Dallapiccola -- Claude Debussy -- Morton Feldman -- Brian Ferneyhough -- Kenneth Gaburo -- Roberto Gerhard -- George Gershwin -- Philip Glass -- Efim Golyschev -- Percy Grainger -- Sofia Gubaidulina --…”
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Modernist America : art, music, movies, and the globalization of American culture / by Pells, Richard H.

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Strange Career of Porgy and Bess : Race, Culture, and America's Most Famous Opera. by Noonan, Ellen

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The great American piano marathon.

Table of Contents: “…Chanty / Ernest Bloch (3:59) -- Impromptu in Two Keys / George Gershwin (1:15) -- Nickel in the Slot / Edward Elzear "Zez' Confrey (2:36) -- Third Pnetagram (Release): IV. …”
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Classics in America by Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990