Virgil Thomson

1.4k citations
17 papers · 433 indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 5
Topics
Musicology and Musical Analysis (6 papers)Music History and Culture (4 papers)Theater, Performance, and Music History (2 papers)

In The Last Decade

Virgil Thomson

7 papers receiving 231 citations

Hit Papers

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians19812026199620111981100200300400

Peers

Virgil Thomson
Comparison fields: 5 of 74
  • Music 225
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 66
  • History 64
  • Classics 55
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 47
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Fields of papers citing papers by Virgil Thomson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Virgil Thomson

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All Works

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Music chronicles, 1940-1954
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From the steeples and the mountains
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What is American music? . What is orchestration?
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Paul Sperry sings romantic American songs
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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musiciansbreakdown →
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"American Music Since 1910 [...] with an introduction by Nicolas Nabokov. Seria "Twentieth-Century Composers", pod red. A. Kallin i N. Nabokova, t. 1", Virgil Thomson, New York - Chicago - San Francisco 1971 : [recenzja] / Elżbieta Szczepańska-Gołas.
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A Virgil Thomson Reader
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Invitation to music
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About Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson is a scholar working on Music, Museology and Visual Arts and Performing Arts, having authored 17 papers that have together received 433 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Musicology and Musical Analysis (6 papers), Music History and Culture (4 papers) and Theater, Performance, and Music History (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Music (225 citations), Classics (55 citations) and History (64 citations). Frequent co-authors include Stanley Sadie, Susan T. Sommer, Michael Tilson Thomas, William Morris, Gertrude Stein, John Kirkpatrick, Gilbert Chase, Henry Cowell, Leonard Bernstein and Paul Bowles. Their work appears in journals such as Notes, Music Educators Journal and American Music.

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