List of Illustrations | |
Abbreviations | |
Preface | |
Charles Ives | |
Up to 1899 | p. 1 |
1899-1910 | p. 7 |
1911-20 | p. 10 |
1920-54 | p. 15 |
Styles | p. 18 |
Work-list | p. 21 |
Bibliography | p. 47 |
Virgil Thomson | |
Career | p. 55 |
Style | p. 62 |
Work-list | p. 64 |
Bibliography | p. 76 |
Roger Sessions | |
Life | p. 81 |
Teaching and writings | p. 84 |
Works | p. 84 |
Conclusion | p. 90 |
Work-list | p. 92 |
Bibliography | p. 95 |
Henry Cowell | |
Life | p. 101 |
Works | p. 108 |
Work-list | p. 114 |
Bibliography | p. 133 |
George Gershwin | |
Boyhood | p. 137 |
From Broadway to "Rhapsody in Blue" | p. 138 |
Years of celebrity and expansion | p. 141 |
Gershwin as a songwriter | p. 146 |
Concert works and "Porgy and Bess" | p. 152 |
Work-list | p. 159 |
Bibliography | p. 176 |
Aaron Copland | |
Life | p. 183 |
Works | p. 190 |
Style | p. 194 |
Work-list | p. 202 |
Bibliography | p. 208 |
Elliott Carter | |
Life | p. 215 |
Early works | p. 217 |
Transition | p. 220 |
Works of 1948-59 | p. 221 |
The concertos | p. 224 |
Later works | p. 227 |
Work-list | p. 235 |
Bibliography | p. 238 |
Samuel Barber | |
Career | p. 243 |
Style | p. 248 |
Work-list | p. 251 |
Bibliography | p. 258 |
John Cage | |
Chromatics | p. 263 |
Dance, percussion, prepared piano | p. 264 |
Zen, I Ching, chance | p. 267 |
Tape, theater, indeterminacy | p. 269 |
Fame and notoriety | p. 271 |
"Everything we do is music" | p. 274 |
Reunions and celebrations | p. 275 |
Work-list | p. 277 |
Bibliography | p. 283 |
Leonard Bernstein | |
Childhood and student years: 1918-43 | p. 291 |
Early career: 1944-50 | p. 292 |
Years of path-breaking activity: 1951-63 | p. 294 |
Later years: from 1963 | p. 295 |
Work-list | p. 301 |
Bibliography | p. 305 |
Index | p. 307 |
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