Reflections on American music : the twentieth century and the new millennium : a collection of essays presented in honor of the College Music Society /

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Interwar symphonies and the imagination : politics, identity, and the sound of 1933 / by MacGregor, Emily Jean, 1987-

Table of Contents: “…Between Europe and America : Kurt Weill's Symphony in a Suitcase -- Listening for the Intimsphäre in Hans Pfitzner's Symphony in C♯ Minor : Berlin -- Liberalism, Race, and the American West in Roy Harris's Symphony 1933 : Boston - New York -- Aaron Copland's and Carlos Chávez's Pan American Bounding Line : New York - Mexico City -- Arthur Honegger's 'modernised Eroica' : Paris - Berlin -- The Right Kind of Symphonist : Florence Price and Kurt Weill New York & Chicago 1933-1934 - London.…”
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Composers of the Nazi era : eight portraits / by Kater, Michael H., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Werner Egk : the enigmatic opportunist -- Paul Hindemith : the reluctant emigré -- Kurt Weill : a survivor on two continents -- Karl Amadeus Hartmann : the composer as dissident -- Carl Orff : man of legend -- Hans Pfitzner : Magister Teutonicus Miser -- Arnold Schoenberg : musician of contrasts -- Richard Strauss : Jupiter compromised.…”

Composers of the Nazi era : eight portraits / by Kater, Michael H., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Werner Egk : the enigmatic opportunist -- Paul Hindemith : the reluctant emigré -- Kurt Weill : a survivor on two continents -- Karl Amadeus Hartmann : the composer as dissident -- Carl Orff : man of legend -- Hans Pfitzner : Magister Teutonicus Miser -- Arnold Schoenberg : musician of contrasts -- Richard Strauss : Jupiter compromised.…”
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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.…”

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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Weill, Blitzstein, and Bernstein : a study of influence / by Schmid, Rebecca

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Music and performance during the Weimar Republic /

Table of Contents: “…Stage and screen : Kurt Weill and operatic reform in the 1920s / Bryan Gilliam -- Rethinking sound : music and radio in Weimar Germany / Christopher Hailey -- "Overcoming romanticism" : on the modernization of twentieth-century performance practice / Robert Hill -- Lehrstück : an aesthetics of performance / Stephen Hinton --Robinson -- The idea of Bewegung in the German organ reform movement of the 1920s / Peter Williams.…”

Great lives from history.

Table of Contents: “…Nathan Soderblom -- Simone Weil -- v. 10. Kurt Weill -- Vladimir Zworykin ; Indexes.…”
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20th century art songs : for medium voice and piano : a collection of contemporary songs for recital and study.

Table of Contents: “…Roberton -- Brother Will, Brother John / John Sacco -- Honey shun / Rudolph Schirmer -- Orpheus with his lute / William Schuman -- Song of the Palanquin bearers / Martin Shaw -- My crow Pluto / Virgil Thomson --Moon-marketing / Powell Weaver -- The lonesome dove : from Down in the valley / Kurt Weill.…”

1930 : Europe in the shadow of the beast / by Haberman, Arthur, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Prologue: Europeans, 1930; 1 Thomas Mann: The Uncanny and Its Power; 2 Virginia Woolf: Transcending; 3 José Ortega y Gasset: Rethinking the West; 4 Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill: Rethinking Theatre, Remaking Opera; 5 L'âme noir: The Black Soul in the City of Light; 6 L.H.O.O.Q.: Painting in 1930; 7 Aldous Huxley: Fearing the Future; 8 Sigmund Freud: The Fragility of Civilization; 9 Yesterday and Today; Epilogue: Europeans Today; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliographical Notes; Additional Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F…”
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After Mahler : Britten, Weill, Henze, and romantic redemption / by Downes, Stephen C., 1962-

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A guide to the plays of Bertolt Brecht / by Unwin, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 THE DARK TIMES; 2 BRECHT: PLAYWRIGHT, POET AND ARTIST; 3 POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND A NEW MORALITY; 4 ART AND CULTURE; 5 TOWARDS A MARXIST THEATRE; 6 KEY CONCEPTS OF BRECHA'S THEATRICAL THEORY; 7 STAGING BRECHT; 8 FOUR EARLY PLAYS; Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of the Cities; Man equals Man; 9 TWO MUSIC-THEATRE PIECES AND KURT WEILL; The Threepenny Opera; The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny; 10 MARXISM AND THE THEATRE; Saint Joan of the Stockyards; The Decision; The Mother; 11 OPPOSITION PLAYS; Fear and Misery of the Third Reich.…”
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Music of the twentieth-century avant-garde : a biocritical sourcebook /

Table of Contents: “…Murray Schafer -- Alfred Schnittke -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Dmitry Shostakovich -- Aleksandr Skryabin -- Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji -- Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Igor Stravinsky -- To̿ru Takemitsu -- Vladimir Ussachevsky -- Edgard Vare̿se -- Wladimir Vogel -- Ivan Vyshnegradsky -- Anton Webern -- Kurt Weill -- Christian Wolff -- Stefan Wolpe -- Iannis Xenakis -- Isang Yun -- Frank Zappa -- Bernd Zimmermann.…”
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The German cabaret legacy in American popular music / by Farina, William, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…The Great American Cultural Invasion; 3. Kurt Weill and Die Dreigroschenoper; 4. Lotte Lenya, Future Tony Award Winner; 5. …”
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Weill's Musical Theater : Stages of Reform. by Hinton, Stephen

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Driven into paradise : the musical migration from Nazi Germany to the United States /

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Anthology for Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries /

Reflections on American music : the twentieth century and the new millennium : a collection of essays presented in honor of the College Music Society /

Table of Contents: “…Shifferd -- Finding our way back home : tonality in the twenty-first century / Robert Sirota -- Kurt Weill's Americana : the open road to the future / Jack Sullivan -- Performing-rights collectives : dinosaurs of the new millennium? …”
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The promise of cinema : German film theory, 1907--1933 /

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