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9780252086076 Academic Inspection Copy

The Sounds of Place

Music and the American Cultural Landscape
  • ISBN-13: 9780252086076
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Denise Von Glahn
  • Price: AUD $64.99
  • Stock: 2 in stock
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  • Local release date: 01/03/2022
  • Format: Paperback (235.00mm X 152.00mm) 384 pages Weight: 600g
  • Categories: Music [AV]
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Composers like Charles Ives, Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich created works that indelibly commemorated American places. Denise Von Glahn analyzes the soundscapes of fourteen figures whose "place pieces" tell us much about the nations search for its own voice and about its ever-changing sense of self. She connects each composers feelings about the United States and their reasons for creating a piece to the music, while analyzing their compositional techniques, tunes, and styles. Approaching the compositions in chronological order, Von Glahn reveals how works that celebrated the wilderness gave way to music engaged with humanitys influence--benign and otherwise--on the landscape, before environmentalism inspired a return to nature themes in the late twentieth century. Wide-ranging and astute, The Sounds of Place explores high art musics role in the making of national myth and memory.

Denise Von Glahn is the Curtis Mayes Orpheus Professor of Musicology at Florida State University, where she is also coordinator of the Musicology Area. She is the author of Libby Larsen: Composing an American Life and Music and the Skillful Listener: American Women Compose the Natural World.

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