Science and American Literature in the 20th and 21st Centuries : From Henry Adams to John Adams. by Maniez, Claire

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Postmodernity's musical pasts /

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American composers : dialogues on contemporary music / by Strickland, Edward, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Keith Jarrett -- Steve Reich -- La Monte Young -- Anthony Davis -- Meredith Monk -- Terry Riley -- John Zorn -- Philip Glass -- George Crumb -- John Adams -- Ingram Marshall.…”

Transatlantic piano

Table of Contents: “…Phrygian gates / John Adams (31:03) -- The invisible drummer / André Previn (22:00) -- Carnival music / George Rochberg (24:58) -- Noctuary / Richard Rodney Bennett (24:58) -- Sonata / Elliott Carter (26:09) -- Sonata / Aaron Copland (25:00)…”

American piano music of our times

Table of Contents: “…/ Conlon Nancarrow (2:47) -- The dead moth tango / William Bolcom (5:07) -- Night fantasies / Elliott Carter (21:32) -- Tango from the exiles café / Michael Sahl (3:42) -- Parchment / Julius Hemphill (5:32) -- Phrygian gates / John Adams (24:40) -- The curriculum vitae tango / Lukas Foss (2:12) -- Tango / David Jaggard (3:11).…”

The American way

Table of Contents: “…Excerpts from: Rhapsody in blue / George Gershwin -- Decoration Day / Charles Ives -- First construction (in metal) / John Cage -- A celebration of some 100 x 150 notes / Elliott Carter -- Mme Press died last week at 90 / Morton Feldman -- Appalachian spring / Aaron Copland -- Harmonium / John Adams -- Lonely house (from Street scene) / Kurt Weill -- In C / Terry Riley -- Symphonic dances (from West side story) / Leonard Bernstein.…”

Masterworks of 20th-century music : the modern repertory of the symphony orchestra / by Lee, Douglas A.

Table of Contents: “…John Adams -- Samuel Barber -- Béla Bartók -- Alban Berg -- Leonard Bernstein -- Benjamin Britten -- Aaron Copland -- John Corigliano -- Peter Maxwell Davies -- Manuel de Falla -- George Gershwin -- Alberto Ginastera -- Henryk Górecki -- Paul Hindemith -- Gustav Holst -- Charles Ives -- Zoltán Kodály -- Witold Lutosławski -- Darius Milhaud -- Carl Nielsen -- Carl Orff -- Francis Poulenc -- Sergei Prokofiev -- Maurice Ravel -- Dmitri Shostakovich -- Igor Stravinsky -- Ralph Vaughan Williams -- William Walton -- Anton Webern.…”
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Toward a new view of America : essays in honor of Arthur C. Cole /

Table of Contents: “…The strange pause in John Adam's diary.--Rayback, J. G. The presidential ambitions of Aaron Burr, 1800-1801.…”

Norton recorded anthology of western music. classic to modern.

Table of Contents: “…/ Charles Ives -- Violin sonata: Second movement / Ruth Crawford Seeger -- Appalachian spring: excerpt including Variations on "'Tis the gift to be simple" / Aaron Copland -- Afro-American symphony: Third movement / William Grant Still -- String quartet no. 2: Introduction and allegro fantastico / Elliott Carter -- Black angels, thirteen images from the dark land, for electric string quartet: Images 4 to 9 / George Crumb -- Philomel: Section I / Milton Babbitt -- Seven studies on themes of Paul Klee: No. 3: Kleiner blau Teufel ; No. 5: Arabische Stadt / Gunther Schuller -- Phrygian gates / John Adams -- Concerto grosso 1985: Fourth and fifth movements / Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.…”

The American story : conversations with master historians / by Rubenstein, David M.

Table of Contents: “…Warren Jr. on George Washington -- David McCollough on John Adams -- Jon Meacham on Thomas Jefferson -- Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton -- Walter Isaacson on Benjamin Franklin -- Cokie Roberts on founding mothers -- Doris Kearns Goodwin on Abraham Lincoln -- A. …”

The calm : inspired 20th century classics.

Table of Contents: “…Jesus : from the OST for Two days, nine lives / Paul Honey (2:37) -- Louange à l'éternité de Jésus : from Quat[u]or pour la fin du temps / Olivier Messiaen (8:00) -- Spiegel im Spiegel / Arvo Pärt (9:13) -- Louange à l'immortalitè de Jèsus : from Quat[u]or pour la fin du temps / Messiaen (7:47) -- 6 gnossiennes / Erik Satie (14:00) -- Forgiveness : movement 2 from Awakening (songs of the earth) / Joseph Curiale (3:41) -- Le fils des ètoiles : pastorale kaldéenne. 3 preludes for piano / Satie (13:00) -- Morning : from the OST for Two days, nine lives / Honey (3:07) -- Angel / James MacMillan (4:13) -- Alone-- again or at last / John Adams (4:11).…”
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The American innovator

Table of Contents: “…A la chinoise : op. 39 / Leo Ornstein (5:44) -- China gates / John Adams (4:09) -- Piano study in mixed accents / Ruth Crawford Seeger (1:26) -- Aeolian harp / Henry Cowell (2:06) -- Synchronisms : no. 6, for piano and electronic sounds / Mario Davidovsky (6:54) -- Tango seen from ground level / John Harbison (2:48) -- The white peacock : op. 7, no. 1 / Charles T. …”

The White House vice presidency : the path to significance, Mondale to Biden / by Goldstein, Joel K. 1953-

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The courage of composers and the tyranny of taste : reflections on new music /

Table of Contents: “…Composers: Hans Abrahamsen (b. 1952) -- John Adams (b. 1947) -- Vykintas Baltakas (b. 1972) -- George Benjamin (b. 1960) -- Friedrich Cerha (b. 1926) -- Unsuk Chin (b. 1961) -- George Crumb (b. 1929) -- Chaya Czernowin (b. 1957) -- Paul-Heinz Dittrich (b. 1930) -- Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955) -- Lorenzo Ferrero (b. 1951) -- Michael Gielen (b. 1927) -- Detlev Glanert (b. 1960) -- Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931) -- Georg Friedrich Haas (b. 1953) -- Giya Kancheli (b. 1935) -- György Kurtag (b. 1926) -- Helmut Lachenmann (b. 1935) -- Libby Larsen (b. 1950) -- Liza Lim (b. 1966) -- Luca Lombardi (b. 1945) -- Siegfried Matthus (b. 1934) -- Robert Morris (b. 1943) -- Olga Neuwirth (b. 1968) -- Enno Poppe (b. 1969) -- Karl Aage Rasmussen (b. 1947) -- Wolfgang Rihm (b. 1952) -- Rebecca Saunders (b. 1967) -- Allen Shawn (b. 1948) -- Johannes Maria Staud (b. 1974) -- Manfred Trojahn (b. 1949) -- Jörg Widmann (b. 1973) -- Christian Wolff (b. 1934) -- Critics: Paul Griffiths (b. 1947) -- Wolfgang Schreiber (b. 1939) -- Arnold Whittall (b. 1935) -- Festival directors: Heike Hoffmann (b. 1958) -- Sir Nicholas Kenyon (b. 1951) -- Epilogue: Rainer Nonnenmann (b. 1968) and Bálint András Varga (b. 1941).…”
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The courage of composers and the tyranny of taste : reflections on new music /

Table of Contents: “…Composers: Hans Abrahamsen (b. 1952) -- John Adams (b. 1947) -- Vykintas Baltakas (b. 1972) -- George Benjamin (b. 1960) -- Friedrich Cerha (b. 1926) -- Unsuk Chin (b. 1961) -- George Crumb (b. 1929) -- Chaya Czernowin (b. 1957) -- Paul-Heinz Dittrich (b. 1930) -- Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955) -- Lorenzo Ferrero (b. 1951) -- Michael Gielen (b. 1927) -- Detlev Glanert (b. 1960) -- Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931) -- Georg Friedrich Haas (b. 1953) -- Giya Kancheli (b. 1935) -- György Kurtag (b. 1926) -- Helmut Lachenmann (b. 1935) -- Libby Larsen (b. 1950) -- Liza Lim (b. 1966) -- Luca Lombardi (b. 1945) -- Siegfried Matthus (b. 1934) -- Robert Morris (b. 1943) -- Olga Neuwirth (b. 1968) -- Enno Poppe (b. 1969) -- Karl Aage Rasmussen (b. 1947) -- Wolfgang Rihm (b. 1952) -- Rebecca Saunders (b. 1967) -- Allen Shawn (b. 1948) -- Johannes Maria Staud (b. 1974) -- Manfred Trojahn (b. 1949) -- Jörg Widmann (b. 1973) -- Christian Wolff (b. 1934) -- Critics: Paul Griffiths (b. 1947) -- Wolfgang Schreiber (b. 1939) -- Arnold Whittall (b. 1935) -- Festival directors: Heike Hoffmann (b. 1958) -- Sir Nicholas Kenyon (b. 1951) -- Epilogue: Rainer Nonnenmann (b. 1968) and Bálint András Varga (b. 1941).…”
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The G. Schirmer piano collection : 33 works by 25 Composers from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Table of Contents: “…China gates / John Adams -- Sonatina (Death of the machines) ; Toccata no. 2 / George Antheil -- Ballade, op. 46 ; Interlude I ; Interlude II / Samuel Barber -- Danza / John Alden Carpenter -- Poems of the sea / Ernest Bloch -- Troix morceaux pour piano / Lili Boulanger -- Dad plays the harmonica / Dave Brubeck -- Estudio a Rubinstein / Carlos Chavez -- II. …”

Beautifully scary : contemporary music in America /

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Landfall. Aotearoa New Zealand Arts and Letters /

Table of Contents: “…Demilune, Tim Saunders -- Online Dream Analysis, Erik Kennedy -- Fanta Boy, Jenna Heller -- Legacy, Nicola Thorstensen -- Alexandrine, John Adams -- More River Water, Zoë Meager -- Down the old quarry, water feels like velvet, Eliana Gray & Jordan Hamel -- Rat, Isabel Haarhaus -- Chrysanthemums, Sarah Scott -- A Bee Against a Window, Megan Kitching -- Barbara Eden's Screams, Gillian Roach -- High-country Hallelujah, Susan Wardell -- ART PORTFOLIO, Vita Cochran -- Shengze Haiku, Doc Drumheller -- Dioskouri, Ruth Corkill -- Our Son, Shaun Bamber -- The Check-up, Keith Nunes…”
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Anthology for Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries /