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Music and Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome

  • Editor: Brody, Martin

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Contents

  • Introduction
  • The Rome Prize from Leo Sowerby to David Diamond
  • A History of the Rome Prize in Music Composition, 1947-2006
  • The Classicist Origins of the Rome Prize in Music Composition, 1890-1920
  • "Picked Young Men," Facilitating Women, and Emerging Composers: Establishing an American Prix de Rome
  • Forging an International Alliance: Leo Sowerby, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, and the Impact of a Rome Prize
  • Class of '54: Friendship and Ideology at the American Academy in Rome
  • What They Said: American Composers on Rome
  • The New Music Scene in Rome and the American Presence since World War II: Excerpts from a Roundtable, Moderated by Richard Trythall
  • For the Academy
  • Two Visits in 1981
  • Music Resources at the American Academy in Rome
  • Appendix: Composers at the American Academy in Rome, 1921-40
  • Selected Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index