Author:
Tawa, Nicholas E.
Imprint:Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.
Descriptionxi, 237 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:Preliminaries. Attitudes -- The times -- Symphonism ascendant -- The symphony's public role -- Symphonies of the mid- to late thirties. The romantic symphony : Barber -- The spiritual symphony : Hanson -- The all-American symphony : Harris -- The muscular symphony : Schuman -- The civil symphony : Carpenter -- Afterthought : Thomson and Cowell -- Symphonies of the war years. Wartime attitudes -- The commemorative symphony : Antheil -- The aesthetic symphony : Diamond -- The dramatic symphony : Bernstein -- The masterly symphony : Piston -- The ambivalent symphony : Barber -- The theatrical symphony : Blitzstein -- Symphonies of the immediate postwar years. The conservatorial symphony : Moore -- The dynamic symphony : Mennin -- The plain-spoken symphony : Thompson -- The August symphony : Copland -- The self-reliant symphony : Creston -- The knotty symphony : Sessions -- American symphonies after 1950. The symphony in the leanest years -- The symphony after 1990.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-231) and index.
