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War and Death in the Music of George Crumb

Donald Henahan, “A George Crumb work bows, and no tone is left unturned,” The New York Times (Tuesday, November 16, 1971). [Scrapbook vol. 1, 1963–73, Box 2, pp. 103–4], George Crumb Papers, Music Division, Library of Congress, ...

Author: Abigail Shupe

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 9781000644678

Category: Music

Page: 174

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This book studies George Crumb’s The Winds of Destiny (2004) and Black Angels (1970) as artifacts of collective memory and cultural trauma. It situates these two pieces in Crumb’s output and unpacks the complex methodologies needed to understand these pieces as contributions and challenges to traditional narratives of the Civil War and the Vietnam War. The Winds of Destiny is shown to be a critical commentary on the legacy of American wars and militarism, both concepts crucial to American identity. The Winds of Destiny also acts as an ironic war memorial as a means of critiquing such concepts. Black Angels has long been associated with the Vietnam War. This book shows how this association began and how it endures through connections to iconic Vietnam War media, including films and books. Together these analyses show the legacy of trauma in American collective memory, which is in a continuous crisis. Crumb’s musical critiques point to a need to resist conventional narratives and to begin to heal trauma on a collective level. This book will be of interest to students of contemporary American music, American studies, and memory studies. It benefits readers by newly situating Crumb’s music within these three fields of study.
2022-09-02 By Abigail Shupe

George Crumb s Makrokosmos Volumes I and II

George Crumb and I , " Contemporary Keyboard , 1174 ( August 1976 ) , p . 42 . 1975 ) , p . " 99 ago Reviews , " Notes , XXXII / 2 ( December " Performing the Piano Music of George Crumb , " Contemporary Keyboard , II / 4 ( August 1976 ) ...

Author: Nell Wright Matthews

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ISBN: UCSD:31822003237526

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Page: 334

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1984 By Nell Wright Matthews

The Music 1971 1975 of George Crumb

George Crumb , along with his immediate family , moved to Media , Pennsylvania in the summer of 1964 ( by this time a second and third child -- David and Peter -- had come into the world ) . The Crumbs have maintained residence in this ...

Author: Robert Vernon Shuffett

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ISBN: STANFORD:36105042237193

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1979 By Robert Vernon Shuffett
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George Crumb

Author: David Cohen

Publisher: Greenwood

ISBN: UOM:39015055165396

Category: Music

Page: 262

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George Crumb is a composer at the forefront of post-World War II American music, and never before has one volume combined a portrait of his life with a catalogue of his extensive work. This book provides the reader and researcher with an overview of Crumb's life, career, and compositions; and an annotated guide to literature by and about the composer, including articles, books, album reviews, concert reviews, and interviews. The biographical portion, written in close consultation with the subject, has resulted in perhaps the most complete and accurate biography currently in existence--an irreplaceable resource for anyone seeking a full understanding of 20th-century music.
2002 By David Cohen

An Analysis of George Crumb s Ancient Voices of Children

PREFACE Ancient Voices of Children was written by the Pulitzer Prize winning composer , George Crumb , during the summer of 1970 on commission from the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation . It is part of an extended cycle of vocal ...

Author: Dolores Hruby

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ISBN: MSU:31293102349747

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Page: 104

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1975 By Dolores Hruby
Composers

George Crumb the Alchemy of Sound

The best place to find up - to - date information on new recordings , performances , and public appearances by the composer is the website www.georgecrumb.net/crumb.html . The present list is current through May 2005 .

Author: Steven Bruns

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ISBN: UOM:39015063333945

Category: Composers

Page: 360

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2005 By Steven Bruns
Symphonies

George Crumb s Music for a Summer Evening

Author: Joseph Ralph DeBaise

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ISBN: UCSD:31822003323797

Category: Symphonies

Page: 1032

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1983 By Joseph Ralph DeBaise
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Walt Whitman and Modern Music

Kristina F. Szutor, Musical Coherence and Poetic Meaning in George Crumb's Apparition (D.M.A. diss., University of British Columbia, 1994), p. 14. Crumb's passage is also quoted in Robert V. Shuffett, The Music, 1971-1975, of George ...

Author: Lawrence Kramer

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135672423

Category: Music

Page: 180

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Walt Whitman's poetry, especially his Civil War poetry, attracted settings by a wide variety of modern composers in both English- and German-speaking countries. The essays in this volume trace the transformation of Whitman's nineteenth-century texts into vehicles for confronting twentieth-century problems-aesthetic, social, and political. The contributors pay careful attention to music and poetry alike in examining how the Whitman settings become exemplary means of dealing with both the tragic and utopian faces of modernism. The book is accompanied by a CD recording by Joan Heller and Thomas Stumpf of complete Whitman cycles composed by Kurt Weill, George Crumb, and Lawrence Kramer, and the first recording of four Whitman songs composed in the 1920s by Marc Blitzstein.
2018-12-07 By Lawrence Kramer
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Singing Death

'Sets, Scales, and Symmetries: The Pitch–Structural Basis of George Crumb's “Makrokosmos” I and II'. Music Theory Spectrum 13.1 (1991): 1–20. Print. Bruns, Steven Michael, Ofer Ben-Amots and Michael D. Grace, eds. George Crumb & The ...

Author: Helen Dell

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781315302096

Category: Music

Page: 202

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Death is an unanswerable question for humanity, the question that always remains unanswered because it lies beyond human experience. Music represents one of the most profound ways in which humanity struggles, nevertheless, to accommodate death within the scope of the living by giving a voice to death and the dead and a voice that responds. This book engages with the question of how music expresses and responds to the profound existential disturbance that death and loss present to the living. Each chapter offers readers an encounter with music as a way of speaking or responding to human mortality. Each chapter, in its own way, addresses these questions: How are death and the dead made present to us through music? How does music, as composed, performed and heard, respond to the brute fact of death for the living, the dying and the bereaved? These questions are addressed from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives: musicology, ethnomusicology, literature, history, philosophy, film studies, psychology and psychoanalysis. Singing Death also covers a wide range of musical genres from medieval love song to twenty-first-century horror film music. The collection is accompanied by a website including some of the music associated with each of its chapters.
2017-04-21 By Helen Dell
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The Age of Chopin

George Crumb , " Dream Images ( Love - Death Music ) " George Crumb's “ Dream Images ( Love - Death Music ) ” no . 11 of his Makrokosmos , vol . 1 ( Example 7.9 ) , features a passage , which Crumb has quoted and identified on the score ...

Author: Halina Goldberg

Publisher: Indiana University Press

ISBN: 0253216281

Category: Music

Page: 368

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This multidisciplinary collection addresses Chopin's life and oeuvre in various cultural contexts of his era. Fourteen original essays by internationally-known scholars suggest new connections between his compositions and the intellectual, literary, artistic, and musical environs of Warsaw and Paris. Individual essays consider representations of Chopin in the visual arts; reception in the United States and in Poland; analytical aspects of the mazurkas and waltzes; and political, literary, and gender aspects of Chopin's music and legacy. Several senior scholars represent the fields of American, Western European, and Polish history; Slavic literature; musicology; music theory; and art history.
2004 By Halina Goldberg

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