The great American symphony: music, the Depression, and war

Preliminaries. Attitudes

The times

Symphonism ascendant

The symphony's public role

Symphonies of the mid- to late thirties. The romantic symphony : Barber

The spiritual symphony : Hanson

The all-American symphony : Harris

The muscular symphony : Schuman

The civil symphony : Carpenter

Afterthought : Thomson and Cowell

Symphonies of the war years. Wartime attitudes

The commemorative symphony : Antheil

The aesthetic symphony : Diamond

The dramatic symphony : Bernstein

The masterly symphony : Piston

The ambivalent symphony : Barber

The theatrical symphony : Blitzstein

Symphonies of the immediate postwar years. The conservatorial symphony : Moore

The dynamic symphony : Mennin

The plain-spoken symphony : Thompson

The August symphony : Copland

The self-reliant symphony : Creston

The knotty symphony : Sessions

American symphonies after 1950. The symphony in the leanest years

The symphony after 1990.