New Worlds of Dvorak Searching in America for the Composer's Inner Life

Name: New Worlds of Dvorak Searching in America for the Composer's Inner Life
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ISBN: 9780393047066

ISBN-10: 0393047067

ISBN-13: 9780393047066

Edition: 2003 (Unabridged)

Authors: Michael B. Beckerman

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In this reinterpretation of Dvorak's personality and work, Michael Beckerman explores the composer's life and music, focusing on the composer's three-year stay in the United States. Using Dvorak as a model he argues that our biographical images of composers influence how we approach their music.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.61" wide x 9.61" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Selective Chronology



Introduction



A Composer Goes to America



Dvorak and Hiawatha



Hiawatha and the Largo



The "Local Color of Indian Character" and the Scherzo



A Nose for Hiawatha



Dvorak's Hiawatha Opera



Dvorak Among the Journalists



Two Who Made the "New World"



The Real Value of Yellow Journalism



Dvorak, Krehbiel, and the "New World"



American Influences, American Landscapes



Burleigh and Dvorak: From the Plantation to the Symphony



A Spillville Pastoral



Inner and Outer Visions of America: Dvorak's Suite and Biblical Songs



Some American Snapshots



The Hidden Dvorak



The Master Is Not Well



A Cello Concerto, a Death--and Secrets



Between a Ring and a Hard Place: Dvorak's Homeric Wagner


Postscript



"Negro Music,"



Notes


Bibliography


Index


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