| Description |
360 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Bard Music Festival series
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Bard Music Festival series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Chávez's musical world. Chávez, modern music, and the New York scene / Christina Taylor Gibson ; The Pan/American modernisms of Carlos Chávez and Henry Cowell / Stephanie N. Stallings ; "The hearbeat of an intense life" : Mexican music and Carlos Chávez's Orquesta Sinfónica de México, 1928-1948 / Ricardo Miranda ; Carlos Chávez's symphonies / Julián Orbón ; translated, introduced, and annotated by Leonora Saavedra ; Carlos Chávez and Silvestre Revueltas: retracing an ignored dialogue / Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus ; Aaron Copland, Carlos Chávez, and Silvestre Revueltas / Howard Pollack -- Part II. Biographical and analytical perspectives. Chávez and the autonomy of the musical work: the piano music / Luisa Vilar-Payá ; Carlos Chávez and the myth of the Aztec renaissance / Leonora Saavedra ; Non-repetition and personal style in the Inventions and Solis / Amy Bauer ; Music and the marketplace: on the backstory of Carlos Chávez's Violin concerto / David Brodbeck -- Part III. Chávez's greater world. Carlos Chávez and the Mexican "vogue," 1925-1940 / Helen Delpar ; Carlos Chávez and Paul Strand / James Krippner ; Masters Carlos Chávez and Miguel Covarrubias: A puppet show / Antonio Saborit ; translated by Rebecca Levi ; The literary affinities and poetic friendships of Carlos Chávez / Susana González Aktories ; translated by Rebecca Levi ; The composer as intellectual: Carlos Chávez and El Colegio Nacional / Ana R. Alonso-Minutti ; Portraits of Carlos Chávez: testimonies of collaboration / Anna Indych-López ; The modernist invention of Mexico: Carlos Chávez, the Mexican revolution, and the cultural politics of music / Leon Botstein. |
| Language |
In English; 3 papers orginally in Spanish, translated here in English. |
| Subject |
Chávez, Carlos, 1899-1978.
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Chávez, Carlos, 1899-1978. |
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Composers -- Mexico -- Biography.
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Composers. |
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Mexico. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Saavedra, Leonora, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780691169477 (cloth) |
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0691169470 (cloth) |
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9780691169484 (paper) |
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0691169489 (paper) |
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