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Author: Joseph HorowitzPublisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
ISBN-10: 0393057178Subject: Performing Arts
ISBN-13: 9780393057171Topic: --
Format: HardcoverLanguage: English
Publication Year: 2005Condition: Good
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Musical historian Joseph Horowitz takes a look at the way classical music has been written, taught, performed, and perceived in America, and concludes that this country has always been much more hospitable to middlebrow tastes and orchestral favorites than to lesser-known composers, innovators, or native sons (and daughters). He also writes knowledgeably about the way classical music has become an elitist bastion, and how its failure to reach the "common people" has contributed to its stagnation.

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Length:606 pages
Height:9.3 in.
Width:6.5 in.
Thickness:1.5 in.
Weight:36.8 oz.

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A chronicle of the tensions and contradictions of a musical high culture borrowed and homegrown in unequal measure.
Classical Music in America is a pioneering history by an award-winning scholar and leading authority on American symphonic culture. Joseph Horowitz argues that classical music in the United States is peculiarly performance-driven, and he traces a musical trajectory rising to its peak at the close of the nineteenth century and receding after World War I. He defines the decades of ascendancy as the quest for an American compositional voice, painting vivid vignettes of America's most celebrated performers and such pathbreaking institutions as the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera. He explores a century of decline characterized by illustrious orchestras, conductors, and virtuosos, mostly foreign born, and in a final chapter he exposes a crisis of leadership and suggests new musical directions in our postmodern age.
As with his acclaimed cultural histories, Horowitz here fashions a sweeping narrative—packed with personality and incident, textured by literature, sociology, and intellectual history—that freshly illuminates the American experience. 32 pages of illustrations.

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"Opinionated, stimulating account....Unlike most lengthy texts, this one gets better as it progresses, drawing complex themes and a huge cast into a single overarching vision of a cultural attitude that has produced many fine artists and striking moments--but no institutional or intellectual support to sustain them."
Kirkus  (01/01/2005)


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Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0393057178
Title : Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall
EAN : 9780393057171
Authors : Joseph Horowitz
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date : 2005-03-30
Pages : 606
List Price (MSRP) : 39.95
Height : 1.7000 inches
Width : 6.0000 inches
Length : 9.3000 inches
Weight : 2.2500 pounds
Keywords : General AAS, History & Criticism, General, Hardcover, Printed Books
Condition : Good

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