Carlos Chavez and His World (eBook)

Leonora Saavedra (Herausgeber)

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2015
384 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7420-0 (ISBN)

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Leonora Saavedra is associate professor of music at the University of California, Riverside.

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Carlos Chavez (1899-1978) is the central figure in Mexican music of the twentieth century and among the most eminent of all Latin American modernist composers. An enfant terrible in his own country, Chavez was an integral part of the emerging music scene in the United States in the 1920s. His highly individual style-diatonic, dissonant, contrapuntal-addressed both modernity and Mexico's indigenous past. Chavez was also a governmental arts administrator, founder of major Mexican cultural institutions, and conductor and founder of the Orquesta Sinfonica de Mexico. Carlos Chavez and His World brings together an international roster of leading scholars to delve into not only Chavez's music but also the history, art, and politics surrounding his life and work.Contributors explore Chavez's vast body of compositions, including his piano music, symphonies, violin concerto, late compositions, and Indianist music. They look at his connections with such artistic greats as Aaron Copland, Miguel Covarrubias, Henry Cowell, Silvestre Revueltas, and Paul Strand. The essays examine New York's modernist scene, Mexican symphonic music, portraits of Chavez by major Mexican artists of the period, including Diego Rivera and Rufino Tamayo, and Chavez's impact on El Colegio Nacional. A quantum leap in understanding Carlos Chavez and his milieu, this collection will stimulate further work in Latin American music and culture.The contributors are Ana R. Alonso-Minutti, Amy Bauer, Leon Botstein, David Brodbeck, Helen Delpar, Christina Taylor Gibson, Susana Gonzalez Aktories, Anna Indych-Lopez, Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus, James Krippner, Rebecca Levi, Ricardo Miranda, Julian Orbon, Howard Pollack, Leonora Saavedra, Antonio Saborit, Stephanie Stallings, and Luisa Vilar Paya.Bard Music Festival 2015:Carlos Chavez and His WorldBard CollegeAugust 7-9 and August 14-16, 2015

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.8.2015
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Zusatzinfo: 8 halftones. 34 musical examples.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Aaron Copland • Alejo Carpentier • Alfonso Reyes • Andean music • Anita Brenner • Armando (artist) • Arthur Judson • Arthur Nikisch • Art Music • At the Center • Bassoon • Caballos de vapor • caracoles • Career • Caricature • Carlos Pellicer • Cinquillo • Clairvoyance • Clarinet • Colin McPhee • Composer • Concert • Conducting • contemporary classical music • Corrido • Cuatro (instrument) • danza • Darwinism • David Alfaro Siqueiros • Diego Rivera • Early Music • Eclogue • editorial • Eduardo Mata • Edward L. Doheny • Efrem Zimbalist • El Colegio Nacional (Mexico) • el laberinto • Erik Satie • Ethnomusicology • Example (musician) • Excision (musician) • Exoticism • Felix Mendelssohn • Film score • Folk music • Foreword • for example • Francisco I. Madero • Franz Liszt • Gavriil Popov (composer) • Giulio Gatti-Casazza • Guillaume Apollinaire • Heitor Villa-Lobos • Hemiola • Henry Cowell • Igor Stravinsky • indigenismo • In Mexico • Internalization • International Composers' Guild • jarabe • Jean Cocteau • Jelly Roll Morton • Johannes Brahms • John Alden Carpenter • John Dos Passos • Jorge Cuesta • Latin America • Latin American culture • Lecture • Leonard Bernstein • Leon Trotsky • Leo Ornstein • lyricism • Manuel Gamio • Manuel Puig • Marc Blitzstein • Mariano Azuela • Marius de Zayas • Martha Graham • Melodic (magazine) • Melodic motion • MESTIZO • Mexican Art • Mexican Revolution • mexicans • Mexico City • Miguel Covarrubias • Miguel (singer) • modernism • Modernism (music) • Modernity • moneda • Musical America • musical composition • musical language • Music Director • Music Is • Music of Brazil • Music of Mexico • musicology • music theory • narrative • nation state • Neoclassicism • New York Philharmonic • nicolas slonimsky • Oboe • Octavio Paz • Olin Downes • orchestra • Orchestration • Orozco • Oxford University Press • Palacio de Bellas Artes • Pan-Americanism • Panegyric • Paul Strand • Pentatonic scale • Percussion instrument • Phrase (music) • Piano Variations (Copland) • Poetry • Polemic • political union • polyrhythm • Polytonality • Popular Art • popular music • Primitivism • Publication • rebozo • Ricardo Castro • Roger Sessions • Romanticism • Roy Harris • Rufino Tamayo • Salomon Jadassohn • salvador novo • Second Spanish Republic • Silvestre Revueltas • Tamayo • Teponaztli • Texas secession movements • The New York Times • The Other Hand • The Spanish Tragedy • Timbre • Tres (instrument) • Tribute To • Trichord • Trombone • tutti • University of Illinois Press • University of Texas Press • Victor Hugo • virgil thomson • What is a Nation? • Whittaker Chambers • William Spratling • Writing • xavier villaurrutia • Xochipilli
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7420-3 / 1400874203
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7420-0 / 9781400874200