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Hyland reveals both the man and his creations, revealing how Gershwin became the first composer to apply popular music to classical forms, how his work reflected the turmoil of America in the Jazz Age, and how, despite his fame, he never achieved the happiness and contentment a genius of his stature deserved.

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Having retired from a career in government, Hyland has taken to writing about American popular music and here traces the life, personality, and work of composer Gershwin (1898-1937) from his birth in New York City to the impact his music continues to exert. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland,

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Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) was a British composer, editor, author and outdoorsman/agrarian. This work serves as an awareness tool, introducing Finzi as a miniaturist, a pastoral composer and a minor Edwardian musician.

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The name of Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) commonly brings to mind the intriguing group of French composers referred to in the 1920s as iconoclasts, and known as Les Six (with Poulenc, Auric, Durey, Milhaud, and Honegger).

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Ligeti's writings, writings about Ligeti, and reviews and analyses of his works, mainly after his 1956 flight from Hungary to the West, are listed and annotated.

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From local Kapellmeister to international icon, Joseph Haydn achieved success by developing a musical language aimed at both the connoisseurs and amateurs of the emerging musical public. This work examines Haydn's works in relation to the aesthetic and cultural crosscurrents of his time.

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This section is subdivided by genre--operas, ballets, instrumental music, vocal music, electronic music, music for the cinema, stage, and broadcast;

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Howard Hanson details the career and works of a composer called by several critics the most important figure in American music in the second quarter of the 20th century.

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Irwin Bazelon, one of the most original figures in American music in the second half of the 20th century, devoted his life to the art of composition.

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Brings together several Leos Janacek scholars to look closely at a range of issues surrounding his life and work. This book features essays accompanied by translated writings by the composer himself. It includes essays on Naturalism, opera direction, and Tristan and Isolde and four impressionistic chronicles of the 'speech melodies' of daily life.

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Fritz Sammern-Frankenegg explores the expression of Bach's messages in the film work of Ingmar Bergman while the unlikely coupling of Bach and English author Aldous Huxley is reviewed by Sister Ann Edward Bennis.

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This volume includes a biography, a list of works and performances, a discography, and an annotated bibliography and will be of interest to students of music, dancers and choreographers, history buffs, and music lovers alike.

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A bio-bibliography of the British composer, John McCabe, which includes a complete list of his works and performances as well as articles and features by and about him containing annotations, often in the form of quotations from the material.

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Karel Husa is a Czechoslovakian-American composer and educator who has made important contributions to modern musical literature. This volume provides a complete guide to his compositions and to recordings of his work, together with a full bibliography.

Following a brief biography is a list of Husa's compositions, arranged by genre.

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Exploring the personal and cultural experiences that have shaped the creative output of the Australian composer Larry Sitsky, this study explores his many influences and includes bibliographic references to all his work.

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The biographical section of this volume sketches Bassett's life and career and provides an evaluative description of the progression of his musical compositions. The book also features a classified list of works, divided into 11 categories of performance, followed by a discography.

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Meirion Hughes combines a new translation of the first edition with an introduction that places the work in its cultural and political context -- .

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This book examines Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis as distinctively global symbols of threatening and nonthreatening black masculinity. It centers them in debates over U.S. cultural exceptionalism, noting how they have been part of the definition of jazz as a jingoistic and exclusively American form of popular culture.

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Gustav Mahler's music has provoked extreme responses from the public and from experts. This volume examines the broader political, social, and literary changes reflected in Mahler's music. It examines the composer's Jewish identity, and considers contemporary theories of memory, and the theatricality of Mahler's art and fin-de-siecle politics.

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This work includes a biography, discography, complete list of works and performances, and an annotated bibliography.

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An influential twentieth-century Spanish composer, Manuel de Falla continues to generate interest as well as controversy.