George Rochberg, American composer : personal trauma and artistic creativity / Amy Lynn Wlodarski.
By: Wlodarski, Amy Lynn [author]
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BookSeries: Eastman studies in music: v. 154Publisher: New York : University of Rochester, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: xxii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781580469470 (hardback).Subject(s): Rochberg, George | Composers -- United States -- Biography | Music -- Physiological aspectsDDC classification: 780.92 ROC | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 780.92 ROC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00214251 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Based on private diaries, correspondence, and unpublished writings, George Rochberg, American Composer, reveals the impact of personal trauma on the creative and intellectual work of a leading postmodern composer.
George Rochberg, American Composer, is the first comprehensive study devoted to tracing and putting into a rich cultural context the career of George Rochberg, widely acknowledged as one of the most prominent musical postmodernists. Drawing from unpublished materials including diaries, letters, sketches, and personal papers, the book traces the impact of two specific personal traumas--Rochberg's service as an infantryman in World War II and the premature death of his son--on his work as a leading composer, college educator, and public intellectual.
The book significantly expands our understanding of Rochberg's creative work by reconstructing and examining the earliest seeds of his aesthetic thinking--which took root while he served in Patton's Third Army--and following their development through his mature compositional period into the final stages of his long career. It argues that Rochberg's military service was a transformative life experience for the young humanist, one that crucially shaped his worldview and influenced his artistic creativity for the next sixty years. As such it reveals personal trauma and aesthetic recovery to be the basis of Rochberg's postwar ideas about humanism, musical quotation, and neotonality.
This book is available as an Open Access eBook under the Creative Commons license: CC-BY-NC.
Support for this publication was provided by the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester.
Bibliography: (pages [213] - 224) and indexes.
Second Lieutant Aaron G. Rochberg: 1938-48 -- The long road to Ars Combinatoria: 1943-63 -- Entropic suffering and Ars Combinatoria: 1962-70 -- Jewish secularism as Ars Combinatoria: 1954-87 -- A moral education for the future: 1948-2005 -- Afterword: on trauma, moral injuries, an aesthetic recoveries.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List, of Illustrations (p. ix)
- Acknowledgments (p. xi)
- List of Abbreviations (p. xiii)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- 1 Second Lieutenant Aaron G. Rochberg: 1938-48 (p. 8)
- 2 The Long Road to Ars Combinatorial 1943-63 (p. 43)
- 3 Entropic Suffering and Ars Combinatorial 1962-70 (p. 68)
- 4 Jewish Secularism as Ars Combinatorial 1954-87 (p. 100)
- 5 A Moral Education for the Future: 1948-2005 (p. 120)
- Afterword: On Trauma, Moral Injuries, and Aesthetic Recoveries (p. 148)
- Notes (p. 163)
- Bibliography (p. 213)
- Index of George Rochberg's Musical Compositions (p. 225)
- Subject Index (p. 227)