Juan Bautista Plaza and Musical Nationalism in Venezuela
- Editor: Labonville, Marie Elizabeth
Making extensive use of primary sources, Labonville chronicles Plaza's productivity in the realms of composition, musical nationalism, music education, musicology, and journalism. In so doing... — More…
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Contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments I: Background
- 1.
- Introduction Early Twentieth-Century Art Music Culture in Caracas; The Significance of Plaza and His Colleagues
- 2. A Portrait of Plaza: The Man, the Musician
- 3. The Composer II: Plaza's Life and Works
- 4. Beginnings; First Compositions; Vocational Indecision; First Writings on Music (1898-1920)
- 5. Rome; Plans for Musical Renewal in Venezuela (1920-1923)
- 6. Paid to Compose: The Chapel Mastership (1923-1948)
- 7. The Educator,
- Part 1 (1923-1928)
- 8. The Early Secular and Nationalist Compositions (1924-1929)
- 9. The Nascent Journalist (1925-1928)
- 10. The Founding of the Orfeon Lamas, and Plaza's Creative Response (1927-1963)
- 11. Plaza and the Orquesta Sinfonica Venezuela (1930-1957)
- 12. The Mature Journalist; Writings on Nationalism in Music (1929-1948)
- 13. The Principal Nationalist Compositions with Instruments (1930-1956)
- 14. The Educator,
- Part 2 (1930-1941)
- 15. The Musicological Pioneer (1936-1964)
- 16. Plaza as the Subject of Reportage
- 17. The Later Non-Nationalist Compositions (1930-1963)
- 18. The Educator,
- Part 3 (1942-1962)
- 19. Retirement; Final Thoughts on Education and Culture (1962-1964)
- 20. Plaza in Retrospect Notes
- Bibliography
- Index