John Kirkpatrick, American music, and the printed page
By: Drew Massey
Series: Eastman studies in music; Eastman studies in music -- v. 98.
Publisher: University of Rochester Press; Boydell & Brewer Limited
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781580464048
Subjects: History; Editing; Music; History and criticism
Description: For over sixty years, the scholar and pianist John Kirkpatrick tirelessly promoted and championed the music of American composers. In this book, Drew Massey explores how Kirkpatrick's career as an editor of music shaped the music and legacies of some of the great American modernists, including Aaron Copland, Ross Lee Finney, Roy Harris, Hunter Johnson, Charles Ives, Robert Palmer, and Carl Ruggles. Drawing on oral histories, interviews, and Kirkpatrick's own extensive archives, Massey carefully reconstructs Kirkpatrick's collaborations with such luminaries, displaying his editorial practice and inviting reconsideration of many of the most important debates in American modernism -- for example, the self-fashioning of young composers during the 1940s, the cherished myth of Ruggles as a composer in communion with the "timeless," and Ives's status as a pioneer of modernist techniques [Publisher description]
Notes: "Works of John Kirkpatrick": pages 181-185.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-195) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Strange stopping places; title: Beginnings; title: Mentorship : music publishing; title: Collaboration : Ruggles's Evocations; title: Performance : Ives's Concord sonata; title: Imagination : Ruggles's Mood; title: Voice : the prose works; title: Institution : the Charles Ives Society; title: Conclusion. Kirkpatrick, compared