Composers voices from Ives to Ellington an oral history of American music / [electronic resource] :
Vivian Perlis and Libby Van Cleve.
- Yale University Press, c2005.
- 1 online resource (xxv, 477 p.) : ill.
- An oral history of American music .
- Oral history of American music. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-443) and index.
Introducing the century : 1 January 1900 : Charles Ives -- On ragtime and Eubie Blake -- From the early modernists. Leo Ornstein ; Edgard Varèse ; Carl Ruggles ; Dane Rudhyar ; Charles Seeger ; Henry Cowell -- On the jazz age and George Gershwin -- With a French accent : Nadia Boulanger -- From the Boulangerie. Virgil Thomson ; Aaron Copland ; Roy Harris -- Exploring the world of Duke Ellington.