| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 322 pages) : illustrations, music, portraits |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
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 -- 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 |
| Summary |
The first English-language study of a critical figure in the development of Venezuelan music |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Plaza, Juan Bautista, 1898-1965.
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Plaza, Juan Bautista, 1898-1965 fast |
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Plaza, Juan Bautista. swd |
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Composers -- Venezuela -- Biography
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Music -- Venezuela -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Nationalism in music.
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MUSIC -- Individual Composer & Musician.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
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Composers
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Music
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Nationalism in music
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Musik
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Nationalismus
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Komponist
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Venezuela
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Venezuela
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006100262 |
| ISBN |
9780253116963 |
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0253116961 |
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1282078410 |
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9781282078413 |
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9786612078415 |
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6612078413 |
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