| Contents |
William Kearns's contribution to American music / Robert R. Fink -- Doctoral programs in music education: a personal reminiscence / Allen P. Britton -- Soliloquoy, for horn alone / Charles Eakin -- Hezekiah Cantelo, an eighteenth-centruy dance collector in British-occupied New York / Kate van Winkle Keller -- Early American psalmody and the core repertory: a perspective / Daniel C. L. Jones -- Practicality, patriotism and piety: principal motivators for Maine tunebook compilers, 1794-1830 / Linda G. Davenport -- "Children in the wood": the odyssey of an Anglo-American ballad / Susan L. Porter -- Mountain calls, for French horn and piano / Daniel Kingman -- Musical theater as a link between folk and popular traditions / Paul F. Wells and Anne Dhu McLucas -- Go tell Aunt Rhody she's Rousseau's dream / Murl J. Sickbert, Jr. -- Fanfares, for six French horns / Karl Kroeger -- The piano works of P. Antony Corri and Arthur Clifton, British-American composer / J. Bunker Clark -- Music research in Nineteenth-century theater: or, the case of a burlesquer, a baker and a pantomime maker / Deane L. Root -- A Childhood Recollection: "Lunch at the Putnam Camp" / Normand Lockwood -- The Yale song books, 1853-1978 / Walter S. Collins -- Hermann Lawrence Schreiner, music merchant and tunesmith in the nineteenth-century South / Nancy R. Ping-Robbins -- "Unknown," no. 13 in They said, for voice and piano, from The Art of Belly Canto / Gordon Myers -- Chadwick and Parker of New England: composers, allies and friends / Nicholas E. Tawa -- Early bands in an Idaho railroad town: Pocatello, 1887-1930 / Mary DuPree -- Arthur P. Schmidt: the publisher and his American composers / Wilma Reid Cipolla -- Abigail Stone, Act I, scene one / Randall Shinn -- Community theater, Caliban by the Yellow Sands, and Arthur Farwell / John Graziano -- The Musical Quarterly and American music / Karl Kroeger -- Musical emissary in America: Nadia Boulanger, Normand Lockwood, and American musical pedagogy / Kay Norton -- Nocturne / Richard Toensing -- Old world origins of the Matachines dance / Brenda M. Romero -- New world inspiration and Peggy Glanville-Hicks's opera Nausicaa / Deborah Hayes. |
| Abstract |
Celebratory essays and compositions are offered as a tribute to a man passionately involved with the multi-faceted nature of American music throughout his career as a distinguished educator, brass instrument instructor, and professional French horn player. Eighteenth-century tunebooks, social dances, nineteenth century composers and merchants, and America's international connections are among essay topics covered. |
