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LEADER: 04179cam a22005051i 4500
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008 750612t19651964nyuag bk 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aML200$b.M44 1965
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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aMellers, Wilfrid,$d1914-2008.
245 10 $aMusic in a new found land :$bthemes and developments in the history of American music /$cWilfrid Mellers.
250 $a[1st American ed.].
260 $aNew York :$bA.A. Knopf,$c1965 [©1964]
300 $axv, 543 pages :$billustrations, music ;$c22 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 450-451), discography (p. 452-519) and index.
505 0 $aPart one : The pioneer and the wilderness -- A pre-history of American music : the primitives, the retreat to Europe, and the conservative tradition -- Realism and transcendentalism : Charles Ives as American hero -- Men and mountains : Carl Ruggles as American mystic, Roy Harris as religious primitive -- Skyscraper and prairie : Aaron Copland and the American isolation -- The pioneer's energy and the artist's order : Elliott Carter -- The American frenzy and the unity of serialism : Wallingford Riegger and Roger Sessions -- The retreat from the West : science and magic : Charles Griffes, Henry Cowell, and Edgard Varèse -- From noise to silence : Henry Partch, John Cage, and Morton Feldman -- Innocence and nostalgia : Samuel Barber and Virgil Thomson -- Today and tomorrow : Lukas Foss and the younger generation -- Part two : The world of art and the world of commerce : the folk-song of the asphalt jungle -- Introductory : music and entertainment in nineteenth-century America : Stephen Foster, Louis-Moreau Gottschalk, and John Philip Sousa -- Orgy and alienation : country blues, barrelhouse piano, and piano rag -- Heterophony and improvisation : the New Orleans jazz band and King Oliver ; Bessie Smith and the urban blues -- From heterophony to polyphony ; From polyphony to the antiphony of the big band ; Improvisation and composition in the works of Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, and Count Basie -- Jazz polyphony and jazz harmony : Duke Ellington as composer -- From art back to jazz : modern jazz and the composing improviser : Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker, Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane -- From jazz back to art : modern jazz and the improvising composer : Miles Davis and Gil Evans, Gerry Mulligan and John Lewis -- From jazz to pop ; The decline of the big band : pianists, cabaret singers, and the "musical" -- From pop to art : opera, the musical, and George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess -- From art to pop : Marc Blitzstein's Regina and Leonard Bernstein's West side story ; The rebirth of wonder -- Appendix I : Jottings of Charles Ives -- Appendix II : A piano transcription by Jelly Roll Morton -- Appndix III : A note on musical comedy, cinema, and TV.
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650 0 $aMusic$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aMusic$zUnited States$vDiscography.
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655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
655 7 $aDiscographies.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423883
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aMellers, Wilfrid, 1914-2008.$tMusic in a new found land.$b1st American ed.$dNew York : A.A. Knopf, 1965, ©1964$w(OCoLC)619410448
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