Concerto for clarinet and string orchestra with harp and piano. Old American songs [sets 1 and 2]. by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

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America an epic rhapsody for orchestra ; Concerto grosso for strings & piano / by Bloch, Ernest, 1880-1959

Full moon and empty arms : based on Rachmaninoff's piano concerto no. 2 / by Kaye, Buddy

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The steel drums of Kim Loy Wong /

Table of Contents: “…Anna -- Eternally -- When the saints go marching in -- Gunslingers -- Piano concerto -- Corson en el pacho -- Examples of maracas playing.…”
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Music for the Colonial Band.

Table of Contents: “…Adams and liberty -- Felton, W. Concerto in C major, op. 2, no. 4 -- Stanley, J. Concerto in D major.…”
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Jennifer Higdon : composing in color / by Reitz, Christina L.

Table of Contents: “…Biography and Orchestral Compositional Traits; Two. blue cathedral; Three. Concerto for Orchestra; Four. City Scape; Five. Concerto 4-3; Six. …”
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Samuel Barber : his life and legacy / by Pollack, Howard

Table of Contents: “…Samuel Barber and His Family -- A Musical Education -- Personal Matters: Early Years -- Other Formative Experiences -- Early Works through 1932 -- More Adventures at Home and Abroad, 1933-1939 -- Music for a Scene from Shelley and One Day of Spring -- Songs and Choruses, 1934-1940 -- The First Symphony and the String Quartet -- The Adagio for Strings and the First Essay -- The Violin Concerto and the Second Essay -- Wartime Service -- The Second Symphony and Excursions -- The Capricorn Concerto, Horizon, and the Cello Concerto -- Barber and His Contemporaries -- Medea -- Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and "Nuvoletta" -- The Piano Sonata and Mélodies passagères -- Personal Matters: Later Years -- A Composer's Life -- Souvenirs and the Hermit Songs -- Prayers of Kierkegaard, Adventure, and Summer Music -- Vanessa -- From the Nocturne to Die Natali -- The Piano Concerto and Andromache's Farewell -- The Creation of Antony and Cleopatra -- Antony and Cleopatra in Performance -- From the Chorale for Ascension Day to The Lovers -- From Fadograph of a Yestern Scene to the Canzonetta.…”
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Music for the colonial orchestra : 18th century American orchestra music.

Table of Contents: “…Artaxerxes, the overture / by Thomas Arne -- The concerto tradition: Minuetto with eight variations for the flute and violoncello / by George Saliment. …”
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Artie Shaw : his life and music / by White, John, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Perspectives on swing -- Interlude in B flat : the search for identity -- Beginning the beguine : success and remorse -- War and peace -- Cinderella and other stories -- Concerto for clarinet : the artistry of Shaw -- 'S wonderful : Artie Shaw on record.…”

George Gershwin : an intimate portrait / by Rimler, Walter

Table of Contents: “…From street kid to Wunderkind -- Falling in love with Kay -- A piano concerto -- Ira takes a wife -- Porgy -- Paris -- "That long drip of human tears" -- The losing streak begins -- "Something big" -- "Don't make it too good, George!" …”

More Balanchine variations / by Goldner, Nancy

Table of Contents: “…1941: Ballet Imperial (Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2) -- 1947: Symphony in C -- 1948: Orpheus -- 1951: La Valse -- 1952: Scotch Symphony -- 1956: Allegro Brillante -- 1956: Divertimento No. 15 -- 1958: Stars and Stripes -- 1959: Episodes -- 1960: Monumentum Pro Gesualdo -- 1960: Liebeslieder Walzer -- 1961: Raymonda Variations -- 1963: Bugaku -- 1966: Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet -- 1974: Coppélia -- 1975: Le Tombeau de Couperin -- 1976: Chaconne -- 1977: Vienna Waltzes -- 1981: Mozartiana.…”

American adagios.

Table of Contents: “…Adagio for strings / Samuel Barber (Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra ; Leonard Slatkin, conductor) (7:32) -- Voyage for flute and string orchestra / John Corigliano (Paul Edmund-Davies, flute ; I Fiamminghi ; Rudolf Werthen, conductor) (8:05) -- Fantasy on a hymn by Justin Morgan / Thomas Canning (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra ; Jesús López-Cobos, conductor) (8:56) -- Alleluia and fugue, op. 40b, for string orchestra / Alan Hovhaness (I Fiamminghi ; Rudolf Werthen, conductor) (8:38) -- Ànhran, from Flute concerto / Christopher Rouse (Carol Wincenc, flute ; Houston Symphony ; Christoph Eschenbach, conductor) (5:41) -- Andante from Violin concerto, op. 14 / Samuel Barber (Robert McDuffie, violin ; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra ; Yoel Levi, conductor) (8:33) -- Variations on a Shaker melody from Appalachian spring / Aaron Copland (Cincinnati Pops Orchestra ; Erich Kunzel, conductor) (3:26) -- Lullaby for strings / George Gershwin (Cincinnati Pops Orchestra ; Erich Kunzel, conductor) (8:45) -- Agnus Dei (based on Adagio for strings) / Samuel Barber (Arietha Lockhart, soprano ; Robert Shaw Festival Singers ; Robert Shaw, conductor) (10:58).…”
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Eyes upside down : visionary filmmakers and the heritage of Emerson / by Sitney, P. Adams

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Introduction: Emersonian Poetics; 1 Marie Menken and the Somatic Camera; 2 Ian Hugo and Superimposition; 3 Stan Brakhage's Autobiography as a Cinematic Sequence; 4 Jonas Mekas and the Diary Film; 5 Hollis Frampton and the Specter of Narrative; 6 Robert Beavers's Winged Distance/Sightless Measure: The Cycle of the Ephebe; 7 Beavers's Second Cycle: The Past in the Present--the Present in the Past; 8 Andrew Noren and the Open-Ended Cinematic Sequence; 9 Ernie Gehr and the Axis of Primary Thought; 10 Warren Sonbert's Movements in a Concerto; 11 Brakhage and the Tales of the Tribes.…”
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A wayfaring stranger Ernst von Dohnányi's American years, 1949-1960 by Kusz, Veronika, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…From the "ramparts" of Hungarian music to emigration : Dohnányi's career -- Life as an émigré : the American period -- Representative works : Stabat Mater and American rhapsody -- Independent compositions : works for piano and flute -- Two concertos, two stories -- Epilogue : spontaneity, flexibility, adaptation -- Appendix 1. …”
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Duke Ellington / by Collier, James Lincoln, 1928-

Table of Contents: “…Childhood -- Introduction to music -- New York -- The move downtown -- Duke takes over -- Enter Irving Mills -- The Cotton Club -- Becoming celebrated -- The Ellington style takes shape -- On the road -- "Mood indigo" -- The trip to England -- Duke faces the Swing Era -- Concertos and small groups -- New additions to the band -- Black, brown, and Beige -- The early 1940s recordings -- The old hands begin to depart -- Decline and fall -- The last band -- The concert pieces -- The Sacred concerts -- The final days.…”

George Gershwin : an intimate portrait / by Rimler, Walter

Table of Contents: “…From street kid to Wunderkind -- Falling in love with Kay -- A piano concerto -- Ira takes a wife -- Porgy -- Paris -- "That long drip of human tears" -- The losing streak begins -- "Something big" -- "Don't make it too good, George!" …”
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Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian : the Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944. by Block, Adrienne Fried

Table of Contents: “…1 A Prodigy's New England Upbringing; 2 The Cheneys and the Marcys; 3 A Prodigy Despite Her Mother; 4 The Making of a Composer: I; 5 Two Ways of Looking at a Marriage; 6 The Making of a Composer: II; 7 Becoming Mistress of Her Craft; 8 Reaching Out to the World; 9 "One of the Boys"; 10 Amy Beach's Boston; 11 The Composer at the Keyboard: Beach Plays Beach; 12 "A Veritable Autobiography"?: The Piano Concerto; 13 The Composer's Workshop; 14 Choral Music; 15 The Chambered Nautilus; 16 Europe and a New Life; 17 "Lion of the Hour"; 18 My Old New Hampshire Home.…”
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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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