Dvorák and His World / / ed. by Michael Beckerman.
Antonin Dvorák made his famous trip to the United States one hundred years ago, but despite an enormous amount of attention from scholars and critics since that time, he remains an elusive figure. Comprising both interpretive essays and a selection of fascinating documents that bear on Dvorák's...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Bard Music Festival ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 12 halftones 61 music exs. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Looking for Dvorak in December 1992
- PART I. ESSAYS
- Reversing the Critical Tradition: Innovation, Modernity, and Ideology in the Work and Career of Antonín Dvořák
- Dvořák and Brahms: A Chronicle, an Interpretation
- Dvořák and the New World: A Concentrated Moment
- Dvořák: The Operas
- The Master's Little Joke: Antonín Dvořák and the Mask of Nation
- PART II. DOCUMENTS AND CRITICISM
- Reviews and Criticism from Dvořák's American Years: Articles by Henry Krehbiel, James Huneker, H. L. Mencken, and James Creelman
- Letters from Dvořák's American Period: A Selection of Unpublished Correspondence Received by Dvořák in the United States
- Antonín Dvořák: A Biographical Sketch
- Dvořák in the Czech Press: Unpublished Reviews and Criticism
- A Discussion of Two Tone Poems Based on Texts by Karel Jaromir Erben: The Wood Dove and The Golden Spinning Wheel
- Index of Names and Compositions
- List of Contributors