| John Kirkpatrick, American Music, and the Printed Page Contributor(s): Massey, Drew (Author) |
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ISBN: 1580464041 ISBN-13: 9781580464048 Publisher: University of Rochester Press OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | History & Criticism - General - Music | Individual Composer & Musician - Music | Printed Music - General |
| Dewey: 780.92 |
| LCCN: 2013005009 |
| Series: Eastman Studies in Music |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (1.15 lbs) 238 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For over sixty years, the scholar and pianist John Kirkpatrick tirelessly promoted and championed the music of American composers. In this book, Drew Massey explores how Kirkpatrick's career as an editor of music shaped the musicand legacies of some of the great American modernists, including Aaron Copland, Ross Lee Finney, Roy Harris, Hunter Johnson, Charles Ives, Robert Palmer, and Carl Ruggles. Drawing on oral histories, interviews, and Kirkpatrick's own extensive archives, Massey carefully reconstructs Kirkpatrick's collaborations with such luminaries, displaying his editorial practice and inviting reconsideration of many of the most important debates in American modernism --for example, the self-fashioning of young composers during the 1940s, the cherished myth of Ruggles as a composer in communion with the "timeless," and Ives's status as a pioneer of modernist techniques. First winner (November 2014) of ASCAP's Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism. Drew Massey is an Assistant Professor of Music at Binghamton University. |