Juan Bautista Plaza and musical nationalism in Venezuela
By: Marie Elizabeth Labonville.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253348760
Subjects: Plaza, Juan Bautista, -- 1898-1965; Composers -- Venezuela -- Biography; Music -- Venezuela -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Nationalism in music
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Background. Introduction. Early twentieth-century art music culture in Caracas : the significance of Plaza and his colleagues ; A portrait of Plaza : the man, the musician, the composer; title: Plaza's life and works. Beginnings; first compositions; vocational indecision; first writings on music (1898-1920) ; Rome; plans for musical renewal in Venezuela (1920-1923) ; Paid to compose : the chapel mastership (1923-1948) ; The educator, part 1 (1923-1928) ; The early secular and nationalist compositions (1924-1929) ; The nascent journalist (1925-1928) ; The founding of the Orfeón Lamas, and Plaza's creative response (1927-1963) ; Plaza and the Orquesta Sinfónica Venezuela (1930-1957) ; The mature journalist; writings on nationalism in music (1929-1948) ; The principal nationalist compositions with instruments (1930-1956) ; The educator, part 2 (1930-1941) ; The musicological pioneer (1936-1964) ; Plaza as the subject of reportage ; The later non-nationalist compositions (1930s-1963) ; The educator, part 3 (1942-1962) ; Retirement : final thoughts on education and culture (1962-1964) ; Plaza in retrospect.