Music musique : French & American piano composition in the Jazz Age / / Barbara Meister.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Meister, Barbara, 1932-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 163 p.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• The formation of a French style of composition
• The formation of an American style of composition
• A brief history of jazz in America
• American composers in the 1920s, part I
• American composers in the 1920s, part II
• The Harlem renaissance
• America in the 1930s
• Paris in the 1920s, part I
• Paris in the 1920s, part II
• Edgar Varese and Igor Stravinsky
• Paris in the 1930s
• Epilogue-envoi.