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currentmusicology-5096	Watkins, Holly	The Pastoral After Environmentalism: Nature and Culture in Stephen Albert’s Symphony: RiverRun	2007	18	.pdf	application/pdf	7240	425	58	In addition to expanding the range of interpretive possibilities, a further advantage of Gifford's approach is that, unlike Marx, he does not draw strict boundaries between popular and high art, a stance that seems important in the case of neo-romantic music which enjoys a broad appeal. Yet the postmodern philosophy of history that Rochberg promulgated-a philosophy which discards the notion of linear evolution in favor of an al­ leged timelessness of musical styles-was a vital factor in the emergence of a genre of music that I will call the neo-romantic pastoraP Combining the romantic and environmentalist impulses of the early 1970s, neo-romantic pastorals, penned by such composers as Stephen Albert, Libby Larsen, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, unabashedly adopt (and adapt) the conventional pastoral topoi of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.	cache/currentmusicology-5096.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-5096.txt