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Before the settlers. Primitive music: the American Indian. General characteristics ; Songs ; Instruments ; Performance -- Perpetuation of Indian music ; Modern use of Indian themes -- Music in the colonies. The Spaniards in Mexico ; The first English settlements ; The Puritans and Separatists in England ; The Separatists or Pilgrims land in 1620. Their psalm book ; Origins of the psalms ; Sources of Puritan music -- The Puritans migrate in 1630 ; "The Bay Psalm Book" ; General picture of Puritan musical life ; Manner of singing the psalms ; Early music in the other colonies ; The first music book ; America: a vast melting-pot ; The Pietists in Pennsylvania ; Music in the south ; The first organ in New England ; Typical instruments of the day ; New impulses in church music ; Early poets ; Early instruction books: Tufts and Walter ; The first concert in Boston ; The Ephrata cloister ; Musical life in other cities ; The Moravians at Bethlehem ; American hymnody. The New Hymn -- William Tuckey in New York ; Secular music ; In retrospect -- First Native Composers. Francis Hopkinson. His versatility ; His first songs ; "The temple of Minerva" ; Songs dedicated to Washington ; Music for the church ; His importance historically -- James Lyon. Commencement odes ; "Urania" ; Plan for capturing Nova Scotia ; Life as minister and composer -- William Billings. Tanner - musician ; "The New England psalm singer" and its fuging tunes ; His enthusiasm for music ; His answer to critics ; "Chester" in the Revolutionary War ; Itinerant singing master ; His significance -- Importance of our first composers -- The years of the Revolution. General picture of the colonies ; Music of the Revolution. Influences of popular song ; "Yankee doodle" -- Music at the close of the Revolution ; First flourishing of the arts ; Theatrical activity ; Shape notes. Little and Smith ; Andrew Law -- The great revival ; Lesser Native composers ; Benjamin Franklin's interest in music -- The turn of the century, to the 1830s. Arrival of the foreign musicians. Alexander Reinagle ; Benjamin Carr ; James Hewitt ; Raynor Taylor ; The Van Hagens ; William Selby ; Gottlieb Graupner -- "Hail Columbia" ; The expanding nation ; War of 1812: "The Star Spangled Banner" ; America's intellectual awakening ; New York's first grand opera ; Concerts and song writers. Charles Edward Horn ; Henry Russel ; John Hill Hewitt -- Continuing growth in the nineteenth century to 1860. The first educator: Lowell Mason ; "America" ; New era for the music trades ; New hymns ; The first permanent orchestra: the Philharmonic Singing Society of New York ; The singing families ; The minstrel shows. Daniel Decatur Emmett -- Stephen Foster. His gift of melody ; Early influences ; His first songs ; "Old folks at home" ; Relations with minstrel performers ; Last years ; His two hundred songs ; Posthumous tributes -- The New England renaissance ; The expanding west ; George W. Peabody creates the first foundation to encourage the arts ; Philadelphia's academy of music ; The foreign invasion of 1848 ; The traveling virtuosi. Ole Bull ; Jenny Lind ; Louis Moreau Gottschalk -- New York's concert life. Louis Antoine Jullien ; Academy of music ; Chamber music concerts -- German domination of American music ; Dwight's "Journal of music" ; American composers demand recognition. Anthony Philip Heinrich ; William Henry Fry ; George Frederick Bristow -- From the Civil War through the 1880s. Civil War songs. "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" ; "Dixie" ; Other war songs -- America begins to mature ; The first music schools ; Patrick S. Gilmore's peace jubilees ; Theodore Thomas, symphonic pioneer. William Mason ; Chamber music with Thomas ; Thomas, the conductor -- Sydney Lanier: poet and musician ; The Philadelphia centennial exposition ; The Cincinnati May festival ; Leopold Damrosch: rivalry with Thomas ; Mapleson stimulates opera in New York ; John Knowles Paine: first teacher-composer ; Other composers. William Wallace Gilchrist ; Frederick Grant Gleason ; Dudley Buck -- Events of the 1880s. Boston Symphony Orchestra ; New York's Metropolitan opera house ; Touring opera company and a national conservatory -- The last years of the nineteenth century. The Boston group. George Whitefield Chadwick ; Arthur William Foote ; Horatio William Parker ; Mrs. H. H. A. Beach -- Dvorak's residence in America ; Edward MacDowell. Early training ; Recognition abroad ; Return to America ; Teaching at Columbia ; Last years ; Estimates of his music ; His views on nationalism ; Piano pieces; orchestral music -- Nationalism and impressionism abroad ; Other events of the decade ; Spanish-American War songs -- The first decade of the twentieth century. State of music in 1900 ; A new era for American music ; Orchestras and conductors. Philadelphia Orchestra ; Boston Symphony ; New York Philharmonic ; Minneapolis Symphony ; Stock in Chicago ; Cincinnati calls Stokowski ; Russian Symphony Orchestra -- |
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Golden years of opera. The Metropolitan in New York ; Hammerstein's Manhattan opera house ; Gatti-Casazza comes to the Metropolitan ; Grand opera in Chicago ; Boston opera company -- Great virtuosi ; First phonograph records ; The appearance of ragtime. Backgrounds of ragtime ; Ragtime's pioneers ; Ragtime gives way to blues -- Inventions and events. Wireless ; Flying machines ; Ford's Model T ; Baseball -- Growth of music festivals ; Music education. New York's institute of musical art ; Music educator's national conference ; Music division of the Library of Congress -- Revision of copyright law ; Rumblings of a revolution in music ; Recognition of the American composer. Arthur Farwell ; Henry F. B. Gilbert ; Edgar Stillman Kelley ; Charles Martin Loeffler ; Henry Kimball Hadley ; Daniel Gregory Mason ; Edward Burlingame Hill -- The Second decade and World War I. Stravinsky and the ballet in Paris ; Symphony orchestra. Stokowski moves to Philadelphia ; Detroit and Baltimore ; Cleveland and Los Angeles ; New Symphony Orchestra in New York -- Early jazz. Origins ; Dixieland jazz ; Sources of Jazz -- Modern tendencies continue ; Crumbling of old values ; America in the War. Songs of World War I ; After the armistice -- Encouragement and financial aid. Julliard and Eastman bequests -- Postwar art and music in Europe ; Composers at home. The Dvorak influence ; Rubin Goldmark ; The use of Indian music and American folk songs ; Charles Wakefield Cadman ; Arthur Nevin ; Charles S. Skilton ; Percy Grainger ; John Powell ; Two nationalists: John Alden Carpenter and Ernest Bloch ; Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Eclectic -- The twenties. Years of transition. Jazz ; Radio ; Noisemakers in Europe -- New music schools. Eastman school of music ; The first graduate schools in music: Julliard and Curtis -- Continued interest in opera. Opera in Chicago ; Metropolitan in New York ; San Francisco opera company ; Summer opera in Cincinnati -- Orchestral mergers in New York ; Great orchestral music. Koussevitzky, Stokowski, Toscanini -- Electrical recording ; George Gershwin symbolizes the growth of jazz. Early career ; Whiteman and Gershwin ; "Rhapsody in blue" ; Later works -- League of composers ; American composers study in Paris ; Aaron Copland ; Howard Hanson ; The Guggenheim memorial foundation ; America's audiences grow. Organized audience plans ; Aid for the talented young performer -- Growth of the concert band. The Marine band ; John Philip Sousa ; Edwin Franko Goldman -- Experimental composers. Henry Cowell ; George Antheil ; Carl Ruggles ; Edgard Varese ; Carlos Salzedo -- Experimental instruments ; The first sound picture ; Eclecticism the norm for American composers. Ernest Schelling ; Frederick S. Converse ; David Stanley Smith ; Arthur Shepherd -- Trends in a closing era -- The thirties. The financial crash ; Orchestras. New conductors ; New orchestras: Indianapolis, Washington ; Boston Symphony's fiftieth anniversary -- Radio ; American operas. Deems Taylor ; Louis Gruenberg ; Hanson's "Merry Mount" ; Thomson's "Four Saints in Three Acts" ; Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" ; Marc Blitzstein ; Gian-Carlo Menotti ; Opera for the American schools ; Walter Damrosch -- Rumblings in Europe ; Growing importance of recorded music ; The listener's music courses created by Olga Samaroff Stokowski ; Federal music project of the WPA ; American composers in the 1930s ; Nationalists. Roy Harris ; Douglas Moore ; William Grant Still -- Eclectics. Roger Sessions ; Virgil Thomson ; Randall Thompson ; Herbert Elwell ; Mary Howe and Marion Bauer -- Traditionalists. Walter Piston: twentieth century classicist ; Samuel Barber: neoromanticist ; Leo Sowerby ; Bernard Rogers ; Quincy Porter -- Musicians from abroad ; New music festivals ; Development of swing. Benny Goodman -- America's newest medium: ballet ; War clouds -- American folk music. Increased interest in folk music ; Types of American folk music. Negro music ; Anglo-American folk music ; Appalachian mountain balladry ; Cowboy songs ; Lumberjack songs ; Creole songs ; Other folk songs ; Folk hymns and gospel songs -- The forties. War years. Songs of World War II -- The era of great ballets in America. Ballet theatre ; New York City center ballet ; Jerome Robbins ; Agnes de Mille ; Martha Graham ; Significant ballets -- Opera. Menotti operas ; Opera at the city center ; Opera at central city ; Lemonade opera ; Other American operas -- Music for sound films ; Broadway reflects America's cultural growth ; Backgrounds of America's musical comedy. Victor Herbert ; Reginald De Koven ; George M. Cohan ; Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg -- Modern Broadway musicals. Irving Berlin ; Jerome Kern ; Cole Porter ; Richard Rodgers ; Frederick Lowe ; Various Broadway composers -- Our composers interpret and express America ; Traditionalists. David Diamond ; Paul Nordoff ; Arthur V. Berger -- Eastman Graduates. Gardner Read ; Burrill Phillips ; Robert Palmer ; William Bergsma ; Ulysses Kay -- Eclectics. William Schuman ; Paul Creston ; Normon Dello Joio ; Paul Bowles ; Philip James ; Bernard Wagenaar ; Ray Green -- Nationalists. Morton Gould ; Don Gillis ; Ernst Bacon ; Elie Siegmeister ; Robert McBride ; Dai-Keong Lee ; Ferde Grofe -- A minority group of experimentalists. John J. Becker ; Henry Brant ; Alexei Haieff -- American orchestras during the war years ; Radio gives way to television ; Rebirth of the recording industry ; Berkshire music center ; Renaissance of choral music ; The contribution of the foundations -- Music at the half-century. Music education. Colleges and universities ; Public schools ; Private teachers ; High schools for the arts -- Experimental composers. Charles Edward Ives ; John Cage -- Electronic music. Otto Luening -- Twelve-tone music. Wallingford Riegger ; Ben Weber -- The younger traditionalists. Vincent Persichetti ; Peter Mennin ; Robert Ward ; Harold Shapero -- Eclectics. Howard Swanson ; Lukas Foss ; Harrison Kerr ; Roger Goeb ; Alan Hovhaness -- Orchestras in the 1950s ; Commissions and prizes ; Opera companies in the 1950s. In New York ; In Chicago ; In other cities ; Opera workshops -- American operas. Vittorio Giannini ; Schuman's "The Mighty Casey" ; Weill's "The Three-Penny Opera" ; Menotti's "The Saint of Bleeker Street" and a ballet ; Leonard Bernstein ; Hugo Weisgall -- Radio and television ; Records ; The American composer protects his interests ; America: a world music center. |
| General note | "Recordings of American music," pages 413-432. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-411) and index. |
| Other title | Music in America. |
| LCCN | 57007493 |
