The History of American Classical Music: McDowell Through Minimalism

Acknowledgements vii Foreword ix Introduction xiii 1. Forerunners 1 2. Edward MacDowell and the "Second" New England School 22 3. Charles Ives 47 4. Other American Composers of the Early 20th Century 64 5. George Gershwin's New Synthesis 94 6. Copland, Thomson, Harris and Their Generation: Part I (1900-1933) 123 7. The Rise of Musical Academia (Hanson, Sessions, Piston and Their Colleagues) 147 8. Copland, Thomson, Harris and Their Generation: Part II (after 1933) 180 9. The Generation of the Forties, Fifties and Sixties 216 10. The Roots of Dissatisfaction: Foundations of the '60s Avant-Garde 256 11. John Cage and the Aleatoric Revolution 285 12. Post-modernism 304 13. Minimalism 320 14. "The Shape of Things to Come" (Where We Have Come; Where We Are Going) 341 Appendix A: A Timeline of American Music History (with Other Historical Events) 361 Appendix B: 245 Significant American Composers Listed by State (Country) of Origin 404 Appendix C: The Fundamental Repertoire of American Classical Music 413 Selected Bibliography of Readings in American Classical Music 424 Index 431