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Aaron Copland
American Scenes
Ameriques
analysis
Anthony Philip Heinrich
art music
Author_Denise Von Glahn
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Charles Ives
Cimarron
City Life
composing
composition
Dana Paul Perna
Desert Music
Duke Ellington
Edgard Varese
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
End of a Tragic Day
environment
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experimental music
Ferde Grofe
Gardens
George Frederick Bristow
Grand Canyon Suite
Hanover Square North
Harlem
Harlem Air Shaft
history
Housatonic at Stockbridge
Hudson River Suite
Hudson Valley Suite
landscape
Mississippi Suite
Music for a Great City
musicology
nature
New York Counterpoint
Niagara
Niagara Falls Suite
Niagara Symphony
orchestra
Prout's Neck
Prout’s Neck
Quiet City
Robert Starer
Steve Reich
symphony
technique
themes
Three Places on Long Island
Thundering of Niagara
Vermont Counterpoint
Voice of the People Again Arose
War of the Elements
wilderness
William Grant Still
William Henry Fry
Product details
- ISBN 9780252086076
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 14 Sep 2021
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Composers like Charles Ives, Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich created works that indelibly commemorated American places. Denise Von Glahn analyzes the soundscapes of fourteen figures whose "place pieces" tell us much about the nation's search for its own voice and about its ever-changing sense of self. She connects each composer's feelings about the United States and their reasons for creating a piece to the music, while analyzing their compositional techniques, tunes, and styles. Approaching the compositions in chronological order, Von Glahn reveals how works that celebrated the wilderness gave way to music engaged with humanity's influence--benign and otherwise--on the landscape, before environmentalism inspired a return to nature themes in the late twentieth century.
Wide-ranging and astute, The Sounds of Place explores high art music's role in the making of national myth and memory.
Denise Von Glahn is the Curtis Mayes Orpheus Professor of Musicology at Florida State University, where she is also coordinator of the Musicology Area. She is the author of Libby Larsen: Composing an American Life and Music and the Skillful Listener: American Women Compose the Natural World.
