LEADER 03833ctm a2200433Ia 4500001 209193 005 20240621212333.0 008 100331s2005 xx a rbm 000 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocn247981646 035 209193 043 n-us-nc 049 LHMA 040 NYP |beng |erda |cNYP |dLHM 090 MT4.A765 |bB539 2005 100 1 Hiam, Jonathan. 245 10 Music at Black Mountain College : |bthe European years, 1939-46 / |cJonathan Hiam. 264 0 |c2005. 300 x, 264 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264). 520 Between the years 1939 and 1945 the music program at Black Mountain College was dominated by the presence of European émigrés. Heinrich Jalowetz, a friend and former student of Arnold Schoenberg, arrived at the college in 1939 as a refugee of Hitler's rise to power. Jalowetz imbued the curriculum at BMC with the musical ideals of the Second Viennese School, and in 1944 he organized the Black Mountain College Summer Music Institute that attracted the largest gathering of Schoenberg's disciples in America. The institute had an immediate effect upon American composers, prompting Roger Sessions to call the event "the most important thing that has ever happened in musical education in America."Another European refugee, musicologist Edward Lowinsky, joined Jalowetz on the faculty in 1942. Under his influence, the study and cultivation of Early Music flourished. The Black Mountain College Summer of Music Institute of 1945 was devoted largely to Early Music and attracted such figures as musicologist Alfred Einstein and harpsichordist Erwin Bodky. This dissertation examines the two Black Mountain Summer Music Institutes and discusses the musical aesthetics that informed the institutes' lectures, seminars, and performances, and closes with an evaluation of the entire known repertory performed at BMC.Chapter I introduces the sources and bibliographic material for this study and provides an overview of the history of the music program at BMC. Chapter II outlines the history and philosophical foundations for BMC and examines the biographies of Jalowetz and Lowinsky, drawing upon their own writings, published and unpublished. Chapter III discusses the Black Mountain College Summer Music Institute of 1944 and its relationship to Schoenberg's Viennese Verein für musikalsches Privatauffürungen. Chapter IV examines the 1945 institute's emphasis on Early Music and influence of the political rift of 1944 within the BMC faculty on the formation of a rival institute at Kenyon College. Chapter V compiles and evaluates a list of known works performed at BMC between 1933 and 1956. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI. |e23 cm. |f(UMI no. 3200791) 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 610 20 Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) 650 0 Music |xStudy and teaching (Higher) |zNorth Carolina |zBlack Mountain. 650 0 Music |xInstruction and study |zNorth Carolina |zBlack Mountain. 650 0 Musicians |zNorth Carolina |zBlack Mountain. 650 0 Jewish refugees |zNorth Carolina |zBlack Mountain. 655 7 Academic theses. |2lcgft 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1068218571&sid=29&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib209193/3200791.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 852 0 |bstacks |hMT4.A765 |iB539 2005 852 |bwww 852 0 |bebook