Perlis, Vivian.

Composers voices from Ives to Ellington an oral history of American music / [electronic resource] : Vivian Perlis and Libby Van Cleve. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005. - 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 Varese ; 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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Composers--United States--Interviews.
Jazz musicians--United States--20th century--Interviews.


Electronic books.

ML390 / .P37 2005

780/.9/04