| Contents |
Tastes can be accounted for -- History of music as performance -- Social evolution of the American Symphony Orchestra. Growth of the concert system ; Background of the symphony orchestra in the United States ; Some forerunners of the American Symphony Orchestra -- Profiles of major American orchestras. The New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society (1842) ; The New York Symphony Society (1878) ; The Boston Symphony Orchestra (1881) ; The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1891) ; The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (1895) ; The Philadelphia Orchestra (1900) ; The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (1903) ; The St. Louis Symphony Society (1907) ; The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (1911) ; The Cleveland Orchestra (1918) ; The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (1919) ; The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra ; The Detroit Symphony Orchestra ; The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra ; The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra ; The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra ; Washington, D. C.: The National Symphony Orchestra -- Life spans of composers in the repertoire. The six most pre-eminent composers. Ludwig Van Beethoven ; Johannes Brahms ; Richard Wagner ; Peter Ilich Tchaikowsky ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Johann Sebastian Bach -- Composers with low and stable trends. Franz Joseph Haydn ; George Frederick Handel ; Karl Maria Von Weber ; Christoph Willibald Gluck -- Composers in the ascending phase. Richard Strauss ; Jan Sibelius ; Cesar Franck ; Igor Stravinsky ; Claude Debussy ; Anton Bruckner ; Sergei Rachmaninoff ; Dmitri Shostakovich ; Gustav Mahler ; Sergei Prokofieff ; Arnold Schoenberg ; Aaron Copland ; Ralph Vaughan Williams ; Paul Hindemith ; Darius Milhaud ; Bela Bartok ; William Schuman ; William Walton ; Charles Ives -- Composers in the descending phase. Robert Schumann ; Franz Schubert ; Hector Berlioz ; Franz Liszt ; Felix Mendelssohn ; Anton Rubinstein -- Composers with full life cycles. Antonin Dvorak ; Camille Saint-Saens ; Edvard Grieg ; Bedrich Smetana ; Edward Alexander MacDowell ; Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakoff ; Edward Elgar ; Vincent d'Indy ; Alexander Glazounoff ; Alexander Scriabin ; Ottorino Respighi ; Ernest Bloch ; Manuel De Falla ; Roy Harris -- Forgotten names -- National sources of the orchestral repertoire. Austro-Germany ; France ; Russia-Soviet Union ; Italy ; Great Britain ; Latin America ; United States -- The orchestra, concert folkways, and social life. The function of the orchestra in community and nation ; Seating plans ; The conductor ; Management and union. The musicians' union ; The audience and its folkways ; The program ; The concert series ; The standard repertoire -- Musical taste and how its formed. |
| Abstract |
This book provides a history of what has been termed the monumental orchestra in America. It traces the growth of the symphony orchestra to its roots in European traditions, recounts the crises which it has overcome, and describes the musical repertoires with which it has regaled its audiences during the past century. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-420) and index. |
| LCCN | 51013728 |
