Music and imagination

by Aaron Copland

Paper Book, 1952

Status

Available

Call number

780.1 C791m

DDC/MDS

780.1 C791m

Genres

Publication

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1952.

Description

The six talks were intended as a free improvisation on the general theme of the role imagination plays in the art of music. The first half of the book treats of the musical mind at work in its different capacities as listener, interpreter, or creator. The second half discusses more specifically recent manifestations of the imaginative mind in the music of Europe and the Americas. The lectures were followed in each instance by short concerts. - Preface.

Subjects

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Imagination
Music History and criticism

Language

English

Original publication date

1952

Physical description

ix, 116 p.; 22 cm

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