Copland on Music.

Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960., 1960. Very Good. 1st edition ; 280 p. 22 cm. ; LCCN: 60-15171 ;LC: ML63; Dewey: 780.8 ; OCLC: 376663 ; black cloth ; photographic dust jacket ; Contents: The pleasure of music -- Creativity in America -- Music as an aspect of the human spirit -- The conductor : Serge Koussevitzky -- The teacher : Nadia Boulanger -- The composer : Igor Stravinsky -- The critic : Paul Rosenfeld -- The pianist : William Kapell -- At the thought of Mozart -- Berlioz today -- Liszt as pioneer -- Fauré Centennial in America : 1945 -- From a composer's journal -- The younger generation of American composers : 1926-59 -- European festivals and premières : Zuriich 1926, Baden-Baden 1927, Paris 1928, London 1931, Berlin 1932 -- The composers of South American : 1941 -- The Reviewing stand. Music by : Darius Milhaud (1947), Benjamin Britten (1947), Stefan Wolpe (1948), Leon Kirchner (1950), William Schuman (1951) ; Book about : Virgil Thomson's Musical state (1939), Schönberg and his school (1949), The life and music of Bartók (1953) -- "Are my ears on wrong?" : a polemic -- Interpreters and new music -- The dilemma of our symphony orchestras -- Shop talk : on the notation of rhythm. ; small tear on front of dustjacket ; signature cut from bottom of front endpaper ; VG/G