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The Sounds of Place
2021
Overview
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
nation's search for its own voice and about its ever-changing sense
of self. She connects each composer's 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 humanity's 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 music's role in the making of national myth and
memory.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Subject
ISBN
0252086074, 9780252086076
