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WNYC: Radio
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MUNI-MISC-1950-01-18-8435.6 LT5519 EQ What is American Music
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MUNI-MISC-1950-01-18-8435.6 LT5519 EQ What is American Music
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Catalog Number:
LT5519
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LT5519
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Title:
What Is American Music?
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What Is American Music?
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Series Title:
Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous
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Description:
Tanglewood roundtable discussion with examples played on piano. Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Irving Fine and Lukas Foss begin with a discussion of jazz and its assimilation. There is a lot of music that would not have been written without jazz existing first. Has influenced European music as well. Music that comes right out of jazz but doesn't sound like jazz, rhythmically. Europeans may be prone to thinking jazz begins and ends with George Gershwin. Some musicians they discuss: Bartok, Mahler, Roy Harris, Stravinsky, Debussy, David Diamond, Leon Kirchner, John Cage, Schoenberg. ~ They then proceed to many other areas: European music; 12 tone school; prepared pianos, which they define as a piano in which the hammers have been prepared with thumbtacks and the strings have been prepared with rubber or metal. They discuss opera, Marc Blitzstein and his latest work; Virgil Thompson and "The Mother of Us All"; Foss' latest opera based on Mark Twain; how much of America gets into the music.
description
Tanglewood roundtable discussion with examples played on piano. Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Irving Fine and Lukas Foss begin with a discussion of jazz and its assimilation. There is a lot of music that would not have been written without jazz existing first. Has influenced European music as well. Music that comes right out of jazz but doesn't sound like jazz, rhythmically. Europeans may be prone to thinking jazz begins and ends with George Gershwin. Some musicians they discuss: Bartok, Mahler, Roy Harris, Stravinsky, Debussy, David Diamond, Leon Kirchner, John Cage, Schoenberg. ~ They then proceed to many other areas: European music; 12 tone school; prepared pianos, which they define as a piano in which the hammers have been prepared with thumbtacks and the strings have been prepared with rubber or metal. They discuss opera, Marc Blitzstein and his latest work; Virgil Thompson and "The Mother of Us All"; Foss' latest opera based on Mark Twain; how much of America gets into the music.
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Date:
1/18/1950
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1/18/1950
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Creator:
WNYC Radio
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WNYC Radio
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Credit:
Original recordings reformatted by New York Public Radio Archives (WNYC/WQXR) with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Original recordings reformatted by New York Public Radio Archives (WNYC/WQXR) with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Subject:
Music.
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Music.
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Subject:
Opera.
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Opera.
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Subject:
Jazz.
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Jazz.
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Subject:
Music--United States.
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Music--United States.
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Type:
Sound
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Format:
lacquer transcription disc
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lacquer transcription disc
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Language:
English
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English
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