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Tables of Contents for Aaron Copeland
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xvii
Composer from Brooklyn
xix
An Autobiographical Sketch (1939, 1968)
Editor's Introduction
xxxiii
I MUSICAL EXPERIENCE
1
32
How We Listen (1939)
3
5
Musical Structure (1939)
8
7
Tone Color (1939)
15
11
Music and the Human Spirit (1954)
26
7
II THE LIFE OF MUSIC
33
90
The American Composer Gets a Break (1935)
35
3
Music Between the Wars (1918-1939) (1941, 1968)
38
32
Musical Imagination in the Americas (1952)
70
13
Jazz Structure and Influence (1927)
83
5
Workers Sing! (1934)
88
3
Letter on Varèse and the League of Composers (1972)
91
1
Opera and Music Drama (1939)
92
12
Tip to Moviegoers: Take Off Those Ear-Muffs (1949)
104
7
Second Thoughts on Hollywood (1940)
111
7
Composer's Report on Music in South America (1947)
118
3
Festival in Caracas (1954)
121
2
III THE MUSICIAN'S LIFE
123
24
A Note on Young Composers (1935)
125
3
Effect of the Cold War on the Artist in the U.S. (1949)
128
4
Introducing Shostakovitch at Dinner (1949)
132
1
When Private and Public Worlds Meet (1968)
133
4
Is the University Too Much With Us? (1970)
137
3
Tanglewood's Future (1952)
140
3
From the '20's to the '40's and Beyond (1945)
143
4
IV PRECURSORS
147
22
Defends the Music of Mahler (1925)
149
2
The Ives Case (1933, 1941, 1967)
151
7
Schoenberg's Expressionism (1941, 1967)
158
4
Stravinsky's Dynamism (1941, 1967)
162
4
Béta Bartók (1941, 1967)
166
3
V CONTEMPORARIES
169
56
The Younger Generation of American Composers: 1926-59 (1960)
171
20
America's Young Men of Music (1960)
191
3
George Antheil (1925)
194
3
Darius Milhaud (1929)
197
5
Virgil Thomson and Marc Blitzstein (1940, 1968)
202
8
Carlos Chávez (1928, 1968)
210
5
Stefan Wolpe (1948)
215
1
Benjamin Britten (1963)
216
2
Elliott Carter (1971)
218
2
William Kapell (1954)
220
3
Ralph Hawkes (1950)
223
2
VI HIS OWN WORKS
225
58
Symphony for Organ and Orchestra (1924)
227
2
Music for the Theatre I & II (1925)
229
3
Dance Symphony (1925)
232
2
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1926)
234
1
Two Pieces for String Orchestra (1928)
235
1
Statements (1934)
236
1
El Salón México (1936)
237
1
Sextet (1937)
238
1
Billy the Kid [Notes on a Cowboy Ballet] (1938)
239
3
An Outdoor Overture (1938)
242
1
Lincoln Portrait (1942)
243
2
Music for Movies (1942)
245
1
Fanfare for the Common Man (1942)
246
1
Danzón Cubano I & II (1942)
247
1
Appalachian Spring [Letters Regarding] (1944)
248
9
Third Symphony (1946)
257
3
The Red Pony (1948)
260
2
Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra with Harp and Piano (1948)
262
1
12 Poems of Emily Dickinson (1950)
263
1
Variations on a Shaker Melody (1956)
264
1
Piano Fantasy I & II (1957)
265
3
Orchestral Variations (1957)
268
2
Dance Panels (1959, rev. 1962)
270
1
Something Wild (1961)
271
3
Connotations (1962)
274
2
Emblems (1964)
276
1
Music for a Great City (1964)
277
1
Inscape (1967)
278
1
Three Latin American Sketches (1959-1972)
279
1
Midday Thoughts (1944, finished 1982)
280
1
Proclamation (1973-1982, arranged 1985)
281
2
VII PERSONAL
283
78
From a Composer's Notebook (1929)
285
5
From a Composer's Journal (1960)
290
5
The Teacher and the Pupil (1960)
295
1
Journal from Venezuela Visit (1954)
296
3
Latin American Tour Journal (1963)
299
7
Letters (1923-1944)
306
39
Conversation with Edward T. Cone (1967)
345
16
Bibliography
361
2
Index
363