Gershwin

Name: Gershwin
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521559539
Price: 4500 KES
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ISBN: 9780521559539

by David Schiff

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Music Handbooks

ISBN-10 0521559537

ISBN-13 9780521559539

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 25th, 1997

Print length 136 Pages

Weight 188 grams

Dimensions 21.70 x 14.10 x 0.90 cms

Product Classification: Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups Composers and songwriters Musical instruments Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles

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David Schiff considers Rhapsody in Blue as musical work, historical event and cultural document. He traces the history of the Rhapsody's composition, performance and reception, placing it within the context of American popular song and jazz.

The Rhapsody in Blue (1924) established Gershwin's reputation as a serious composer and has since become one of the most popular of all American concert works. In this richly informative guide David Schiff considers the piece as musical work, historical event and cultural document. He traces the history of the Rhapsody's composition, performance and reception, placing it within the context of American popular song and jazz and the development of modernism. He also provides a full account of the different published and recorded versions of the work and explores the many stylistic sources of Gershwin's music. The book also contains an extended discussion of Paul Whitman's Experiment in Modern Music, considers the influence of the Rhapsody on other works (e.g. the music of Duke Ellington) and examines the traditions and institutions of Jewish cultural populism.

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