George Gershwin : a new biography / by Hyland, William G. 1929-2008

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George Gershwin : an intimate portrait / by Rimler, Walter

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George Gershwin : his life and work / by Pollack, Howard

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The Gershwin style : new looks at the music of George Gershwin /

Table of Contents: “…Gilbert -- Musings on "Nice Gershwin tunes," form, and harmony in the concert music of Gershwin / Larry Starr -- Gershwin's Blue Monday (1922) and the promise of success / John Andrew Johnson -- Rhapsody in Blue : a study in Hollywood hagiography / Charlotte Greenspan -- Gershwin on the cover of Rolling Stone / Susan Richardson -- George Gershwin and jazz / C. André Barbera -- Tracing Gershwin's piano rolls / Artis Wodehouse -- George Gershwin's piano rollography / Michael Montgomery -- What about Ira? …”
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To provide special gold medals honoring George and Ira Gershwin : hearing before the Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs and Coinage of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session on H.J. Res. 251, joint resolution to provide that a special gold medal honoring George Gershwin be presented to his sister, Frances Gershwin Godowsky, and a special gold medal honoring Ira Gershwin be presented to his widow, Leonore Gershwin, and to provide for the production of bronze duplicates of such medals for sale to the public, July 10, 1985.

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

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The American Negro and his amazing music. by Dennison, Tim

Table of Contents: “…Blues without Melody -- Birth of the Spiritual -- By-Products of the Spiritual -- Refintement and Development -- Antonin Dvorak -- Jazz and Popular Music -- George Gershwin -- A Philosophical View -- What Should the Negro do? …”
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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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The island called paradise : Cuba in history, literature, and the arts / by Beidler, Philip D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Cuba and the imagination -- Romancing Cecilia Valdes -- Un militar espanol de origen venezolano -- Mambises in whiteface -- The ghost of Walker Evans -- Ignacio Pineiro, George Gershwin, and the Schillinger system -- The secret life of Ricky Ricardo -- Good neighbor Batista -- The two Ernestos -- Steverino in Gangsterland -- Why no one in Havana speaks of Graham Greene -- Inspector Renko on the Malecon -- The example of Yoani Sanchez -- Conclusion : the autumn of the comandante.…”
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Dvor̿ák to Duke Ellington : a conductor explores America's music and its African American roots / by Peress, Maurice

Table of Contents: “…Antonin Dvor̿ák comes to America -- America and Negro music -- Dvor̿ák's symphony "From the New World" -- The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 -- The National Conservatory of Music of America -- Paul Laurence Dunbar, Clorilindy, and "The talented tenth" -- James Reese Europe -- George Gershwin and African American music -- Leonard Bernstein -- Gershwin's "Rhapsody in blue" -- The Clef Club concert -- Will Marion Cook -- George Antheil's "Ballet mécanique" -- Bernstein's Mass -- Duke Ellington -- Ellington's "Queenie pie" -- Ellington's "Black, brown and beige".…”
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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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Porgy and Bess / by Fisher, Burton D.

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Porgy and Bess / by Fisher, Burton D.

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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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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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The classical music lover's companion to orchestral music / by Philip, Robert, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Johann Sebastian Bach -- Mily Balakirev -- Samuel Barber -- Béla Bartók -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Hector Berlioz -- Georges Bizet -- Alexander Borodin -- Bohuslav Martinú -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Olivier Messiaen -- Darius Milhaud -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Modest Musorgsky -- Carl Nielsen -- Sergei Prokofiev -- Johannes Brahms -- Benjamin Britten -- Max Bruch -- Anton Bruckner -- Emmanuel Charbrier -- Frédéric Fryderyk Chopin -- Aaron Copland -- Arcangelo Corelli -- Claude Debussy -- Frederick Delius -- Antonin Dvor̆ák -- Edward Elgar -- Manuel de Falla -- Gabriel Fauré -- César Franck -- George Gershwin -- Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka -- Edvard Grieg -- George Frideric Handel / Georg Friedrich HăndelL -- Franz Joseph Haydn -- Paul Hindemith -- Gustav Holst -- Charles Ives -- Leos̆ Janác̆ek -- Franz Liszt -- Gustav Mahler -- Sergei Rachmaninoff -- Maurice Ravel -- Nikolai Rimskykorsakov -- Gioachino Rossini -- Camille Saintsaëns -- Erik Satie -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Franz Schubert -- Robert Schumann -- Alexander Scriabin / Aleksandr Nikolayevich Skryabin -- Dmitri Shostakovich -- Jean Sibelius -- Bedr̆ich Smetana -- Rirchard Strauss -- Igor Stravinsky -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Michael Tippett -- Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Antonio Vivaldi -- Richard Wagner -- William Walton -- Carl Maria von Weber -- Anton Webern.…”
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The opera lover's companion / by Osborne, Charles, 1927-2017

Table of Contents: “…ÁK; FRIEDRICH VON FLOTOW; JOHN GAY; GEORGE GERSHWIN; UMBERTO GIORDANO; MIKHAIL GLINKA; CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK; CHARLES FRANÇOIS GOUNOD; FROMENTAL HALÉVY; GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL; HANS WERNER HENZE; PAUL HINDEMITH…”
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