Our American Music : three hundred years of it

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Auteur principal : Howard John Tasker (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Our American Music : three hundred years of it / John Tasker Howard
Édition : 3ème édition, revue et corrigée.
Publié : New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Company , C 1946
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXII-841 p.-[32] p. de pl.)
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  • Part I-1620-1800: Euterpe in the Wilderness.
  • Chap. I- Early Days : New England Psalmody ; Early Church Organs ; Early Secular Music in New England ; Philadelphia, New York and the South.
  • Chap. II- Our First Composers : Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791) ; James Lyon (1735-1794) ; William Billings and His "Fuguing Pieces" (1746-1800).
  • Chap. III- The Later Eighteenth Century: New England ; Post-Revolutionary Immigrants in New York and Philadelphia.
  • Part II-1800-1860 : Euterpe Clears the Forest.
  • Chap. IV- Our First National Airs : Yankee Doodle ; Hail Columbia ; The Star-Spangled Banner ; America.
  • Chap. V- The Turn of the Century : Foreign and Native Artists ; Lowell Mason (1792-1872) and the Return of the Native Composer ; Mason's Contemporaries.
  • Chap. VI- Our Nineteenth-Century Background in Secular Music : Concert Life ; Early Song Writers ; Singing Families ; Minstrel Shows and Their Songs ; Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864) ; Rampant Virtuosi ; Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869).
  • Part III- 1860 to the Present : Euterpe Builds Her American Home.
  • Chap. IX- Songs of the Civil War : Dixie and the Battle Hymn ; Other War Songs.
  • Chap. X- The Spread of Musical Culture : Westward Expansion ; William Mason (1829-1908) ; Theodore Thomas (1835-1905) ; Other Teachers and Composers of the Period.
  • Chap. XI- The Parents of Our Contemporaries : The Grandfathers ; The Boston Group ; Edward MacDowell (1861-1908) ; Links with the Past.
  • Chap. XII- Contemporary Composers : Composer's Born in the 1870's ; From the 1880's. ; From the 1910's. ; Composers Born since 1910 ; Composers Best Know by Their Smaller Works.
  • Chap. XIII- Latter-Century and Present-Day Religious Music : Dudley Buck (1839-1909) and His Successors ; Folk Hymns and the Gospel Song.
  • Chap. XIV- Our Folk Music : The Music of the North American Indian ; Negro Folk Music ; Other Sources of Folk Songs.
  • Chap. XV- Our Lighter Musical Moments : Yesterday ; Ragtime to Jazz and Swing.
  • Twentieth-Century Composers of Popular Music.