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Author Massey, Drew (Drew Michael), author.

Title John Kirkpatrick, American music, and the printed page / Drew Massey.

Publication Info. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press ; Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer Limited, 2013.
©2013

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 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML427.K57 M38    Available  ---
Description xii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989
Eastman studies in music ; v. 98.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-195) and index.
Contents Introduction : strange stopping places -- Beginnings -- Mentorship : music publishing -- Collaboration : Ruggles's Evocations -- Performance : Ives's Concord sonata -- Imagination : Ruggles's Mood -- Voice : the prose works -- Institution : the Charles Ives Society -- Conclusion : Kirkpatrick, compared -- Works of John Kirkpatrick.
Summary 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 music and 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 [Publisher description]
Subject Kirkpatrick, John, 1905-1991.
Kirkpatrick, John, 1905-1991.
Music -- Editing -- History -- 20th century.
Music -- Editing.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Music.
United States.
ISBN 9781580464048 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
1580464041 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
Standard No. 40022503574