Modern American Music - From Charles Ives to the Minimalist | Otto Karolyi usato Musica Musica
In this, Otto Karolyi's fourth book, he explores the rich traditions of twentieth-century American music which have helped to forge the country's artistic identity and to establish a canon of important American works. He begins by tracing the history of popular folk songs, Negro spirituals, psalms and hymns which together created an independent music with a distinct character. But it was the free pioneering spirit and inventiveness of Charles Ives which mark him as the first great American composer of the century. At the same time, popular styles such as Gospel, blues, ragtime, jazz and Tin Pan Alley were exerting an enormous influence on the national consciousness. A new breed of composer who blended these disparate ideas followed, notably George Gershwin.
