Roger Sessions : how a "difficult" composer got that way /

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Author / Creator:Prausnitz, Frederik.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Description:xi, 348 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4735112
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ISBN:0195108922
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-333) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Roger Sessions
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Matriarch
  • Chapter 2. The Consort
  • Chapter 3. Young Roger
  • Chapter 4. Letters from Harvard
  • Chapter 5. Ernest Bloch
  • Chapter 6. Berenson
  • Chapter 7. The Musical Idea I
  • Chapter 8. Summer of 1929
  • Chapter 9. Berlin Interlude
  • Chapter 10. Home
  • Chapter 11. Sea Change
  • Chapter 12. Something More
  • Chapter 13. The Musical Idea II
  • Chapter 14. Teacher
  • Chapter 15. Family, Friends, and Montezuma
  • Chapter 16. Berkeley
  • Chapter 17. Dallapiccola
  • Chapter 18. The Musical Idea III
  • Chapter 19. Harvest
  • Appendix 1. Overview
  • Appendix 2. Musical Terms
  • Appendix 3. Ernest Bloch on Cleveland Dismissal in 1925
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • Selective Bibliography
  • Index