Making Music for Modern Dance
Collaboration in the Formative Years of a New American Art
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 3 November 2011
- ISBN 9780199743216
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 157x239x27 mm
- Weight 658 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 29 photographs 0
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Short description:
Making Music for Modern Dance is a fascinating collection of source readings that offer first-hand accounts of musical collaboration for early modern dance in America.
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Making Music for Modern Dance traces the collaborative approaches, working procedures, and aesthetic views of the artists who forged a new and distinctly American art form during the first half of the 20th century. The book offers riveting first-hand accounts from innovative artists in the throes of their creative careers and provides a cross-section of the challenges faced by modern choreographers and composers in America. These articles are complemented by excerpts from astute observers of the music and dance scene as well as by retrospective evaluations of past collaborative practices. Beginning with the careers of pioneers Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, and Ted Shawn, and continuing through the avant-garde work of John Cage for Merce Cunningham, the book offers insights into the development of modern dance in relation to its music. Editor Katherine Teck's introductions and afterword offer historical context and tie the artists' essays in with collaborative practices in our own time. The substantive notes suggest further materials of interest to students, practicing dance artists and musicians, dance and music history scholars, and to all who appreciate dance.
Wow! A book with such glorious content and organization that I would enthusiastically use it in my own courses, and recommend it to students and all readers in modern dance history, music for dance, collaborative and interdisciplinary arts, and American music history. How wonderful to have all these primary sources (many rare or previously unavailable) under one cover, each one placed in a clear context. A fantastic contribution illuminating an often neglected subject.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Threads of America's Heritage in Music and Dance
Part One: Musical Collaboration for a New Era in Dance
Overview: The Question of Using Old Music for New Dance
1. Émile Jaques-Dalcroze. How to Revive Dancing Music and the Dancer
2. Isadora Duncan. Dancing to Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
3. Baird Hastings. Music for Isadora Duncan's Dance
4. Helen Caldwell. The Dance Poems of Michio Ito: The White Peacock, to Music by Griffes
5. Denishawn program. America and the Dance Music Visualization
6. Norman Cazden. On Dancing to Bach: Humphrey-Weidman Programs
7. Ted Shawn. American Music and Composers: What Dancers Need
Part Two: Creative Procedures and Ingredients
Overview: Some Challenges of Collaboration, and Composers Debate What Works
8. Louis Horst. Music and Dance: The New Generation's Change in Methods
9. Henry Gilfond. Louis Horst
10. Gertrude Lippincott. A Quiet Genius Himself: A Dance Teacher's Tribute to Louis Horst
11. Wallingford Riegger. Synthesizing Music and the Dance
12. Ernestine Stodelle. Sensing the Dancer's Impulse: A Dancer Talks about the Art of Composer-Accompanists
13. Vivian Fine. My Scores for Modern Dance: Tragedy and Comedy
14. Doris Humphrey. The Race of Life: My Side of the Story The Relationship of Music and Dance
15. Lehman Engel. Under Way: Composing for Martha Graham Details of Contemporary Collaboration
16. Henry Cowell. Relating Music and Concert Dance: An Idea for Elastic Form
17. Norman Lloyd. Sound-Companion for Dance: Henry Cowell's Talent
18. Norman Lloyd. Composing for the Dance: A Retrospective Overview of Procedures; Personal Experiences; and Advice to Collaborators
Part Three: Towards New "American" Styles
Overview: Defining "American" Music; Common Musical Concerns of Ballet and Modern Dance
19. Verna Arvey. The Cosmopolitan Scene of the 1920s and '30s: Avant-Garde Experiments; Symphonic Ballet Scores; Jazz
20. Virgil Thomson. The Theatrical Thirties
21. Katherine Teck: Virgil Thomson's Later Reflections
22. Dance Observer. Editorial: Dance and American Composers Drawing Upon Folk Music and War-Time Patriotism
23. Woody Guthrie. People Dancing
24. Nora Guthrie. Sophie Maslow and Woody
25. Agnes de Mille. Music for Martha
26. Aaron Copland. The Commission for Appalachian Spring
27. Gail Levin. Aaron Copland's America
28. Richard Philp. Appalachian Spring: An Appreciation 54 Years Later Building on the Horton Experience
29. Larry Warren and Others. Lester Horton: Of Money, Music, and Motivation
30. Katherine Teck. Kenneth Klauss: Musician for California Dancers
31. Katherine Teck. Carmen de Lavallade: Dancing to Many Musical Styles
32. Alvin Ailey. Instructions: How to Play the Drums
33. Jennifer Dunning. Alvin Ailey's Revelations
34. Alvin Ailey with A. Peter Bailey. How Revelations Came to Be
Part Four: Instruments, Technology, and the Avant-Garde
Overview: Expanding Timbre Possibilities with Percussion, Vocalization, Electronic Instruments, and the Sounds Around Us
35. Franziska Boas. Percussion Music and Its Relation to the Modern Dance
36. Henry Cowell. East Indian Tala Music
37. Lehman Engel. Choric Sound for the Dance
38. John Cage. Goal: New Music, New Dance
39. Otto Luening. Electronic Music for Doris Humphrey's Theatre Piece No. 2
40. Alwin Nikolais. My Total Theater Concept
41. John Cage. Experimental Music
42. John Cage. Communication
43. Carolyn Brown. Dancing with the Avant-Garde
Part Five: Well-Springs of Creative Collaboration
Overview: Diverse Methods and Aesthetic Ideas
44. Leonard Bernstein. "Fun" in Music and the Dance
45. Paul Taylor. Why I Make Dances
46. Carlos Surinach. My Intention to Serve Spanish Ballet Serves American Modern Dancers Instead
47. Lou Harrison. Meditations on Melodies, Modes, Emotion, and Creation
48. Lucia Dlugoszewski. New Music for the Dance: Choices Open to Collaborators at Mid-Century
Part Six: Master Artists Speak to Future Generations
Overview: Postwar Trends, and Music in the Training of Dancers
49. Erick Hawkins. My Love Affair With Music
50. Bessie Schönberg. Finding Your Own Voice
51. Paul Draper. Music and Dancing
52. José Limón. Dancers Are Musicians Are Dancers
Afterword: Creativity in One's Own Time
Appendix: Checklist of Composers
Notes, Commentary, and Recommended Resources
Bibliographic Essay
Index
