Alec Wilder / by Philip Lambert.

Includes bibliographical references (page 143) and index.

Awakenings: musical experiences through the early 1930s -- Breakthroughs: first professional successes in the 1930s and 1940s -- Evolutions: compositional maturity in the 1950s -- Loyalties: the prolific 1960s -- Celebrations: reflection and reaffirmation in the 1970s -- The music of Alec Wilder: an assessment.

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The music of Alec Wilder (1907-1980) blends several American musical traditions, such as jazz and the American popular song, with classical European forms and techniques. Stylish and accessible, Wilder's musical oeuvre ranged from sonatas, suites, concertos, operas, ballets, and art songs to woodwind quintets, brass quintets, jazz suites, and hundreds of popular songs. In this biography and critical investigation of Wilder's music, Philip Lambert chronicles Wilder's early work as a part-time student at the Eastman School of Music, his ascent through the ranks of the commercial recording industry in New York City in the 1930s and 1940s, his turn toward concert music from the 1950s onward, and his devotion late in his life to the study of American popular songs of the first half of the twentieth century.

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