State of Music
1938 First Edition
Published on 20. April 2023
139 pages
978-1-80523-257-5 (ISBN)
Description
Composer Thomson, whose film score for Louisiana Story was awarded the Music Pulitzer Prize in 1949, writes about contemporary music and a musician's place in society before World War II.-Print ed.
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- CHAPTER ONE-OUR ISLAND HOME, or What it feels like to be a musician
- CHAPTER TWO-THE NEIGHBORS, or Chiefly about painters and painting
- CHAPTER THREE-SURVIVALS OF AN EARLIER CIVILIZATION, or Shades of poets dead and gone
- CHAPTER FOUR-LIFE AMONG THE NATIVES, or Musical habits and customs
- CHAPTER FIVE-LIFE IN THE BIG CITY, or The civil status of musicians
- CHAPTER SIX-HOW COMPOSERS EAT, or Who does what to who and who gets paid
- CHAPTER SEVEN-WHY COMPOSERS WRITE HOW, or The economic determinism of musical style
- 1. Non-Musical Jobs, or Earned Income from Non-Musical Sources.
- 2. Unearned Income from All Sources.
- [a.] Money from home
- [b.] Other people's money
- 3. Other Men's Music, or Selling the By-Products of His Musical Education.
- [a.] Execution
- [b. and c.] Organizing, publishing, and editing
- [d.] Pedagogy
- [e. and f.] Lecturing, criticism, and musical journalism
- [g.] The Appreciation-racket
- 4. The Just Rewards of His Labor.
- CHAPTER EIGHT-COMPOSERS' POLITICS, or Professional bodies versus the secular state
- CHAPTER NINE-INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM, or What can and cannot be censored
- CHAPTER TEN-HOW TO WRITE A PIECE, or Functional design in music
- THE DANCE-SONG
- MUSIC AND PHOTOGRAPHY
- MUSICAL THEATER
- CONCERT MUSIC
- CHAPTER ELEVEN-BACK TO THE WOMB, JAMES, or How modern music gets that way
- CHAPTER TWELVE-BACK TO POLITICS, or How to run an island civilization
