| Edition |
3rd ed. |
| Description |
xxv, 302 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes discographies and index. |
| Contents |
Prelude. The elements of musical sound -- pt. 1. Preparation for an American music. North American Indian music. Contemporary Indian song ; The colonial period. Music at the Spanish missions ; Mennonite hymns ; New England psalm tunes, Strophic form, Psalters ; Early New England society ; Religious music, The Bay Psalm Book, Lining out ; Secular music ; Folk music, Ballads ; The early African American experience -- pt. 2. The first American music. Revolution. Painting in Eighteenth-Century America ; Music, Informal music, Bands ; Texture in music ; Canons ; Fuging tunes ; A broadening music experience. Prestigious musical amateurs, Amateur composers ; Public concerts ; Professional composers ; Early American theater -- pt. 3. The romantic Nineteenth Century. A romantic young republic. Romanticism in American life, Movements toward reform ; The arts in Nineteenth-Century America, Literature, Visual arts ; Music, Foreign influence, Move to reform music, Serious vs. popular music, Instrumental vs. vocal music, Choral music ; Lowell Mason and some important peers, Music education in the schools ; Of, by, and for the people. Revival movements ; Spiritual songs, Spirituals, White spirituals or folk hymns, Spanish alabados ; Secular music ; |
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The Civil War era. Visual arts ; Literature ; Music ; Minstrelsy ; Stephen Foster ; Singing families ; Civil War songs ; Romantic virtuosos. The Swedish nightingale ; Ole Bull ; Louis Moreau Gottschalk, The piano, Gottschalk's piano music ; Early concert music. Rise of nationalism in the arts ; Anthony Philip Heinrich ; A growing awareness ; William Henry Fry, George Bristow, Theodore Thomas ; American concert music comes of age. Arthur Farwell and the Wa-Wan Press ; The second New England school, John Knowles Paine, Fugue ; Edward MacDowell -- pt. 4. Growth of vernacular traditions. Evolution of an American sound. Concert bands ; Rise of ragtime, Scott Joplin ; Tin pan alley, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin ; Early jazz. Blues, Form, Melodic characteristics, Blues harmony, Improvisation, Urban blues ; New Orleans jazz ; Chicago jazz ; Jazz piano, Boogie-woogie, Stride ; Sweet jazz ; Symphonic jazz ; Big-band swing, Art of arranging ; Jazz since the forties. Bebop, Charles "Bird" Parker, John "Dizzy" Gillespie ; Jazz as concert music ; Cool jazz ; Third stream, Gunther Schuller, Anthony Davis ; Free jazz -- |
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pt. 5. Music for theater and film. Early musical theater. Variety shows, Recent revues ; Operetta, Gilbert and Sullivan, Viennese operettas, American operettas ; Evolution of the Broadway musical. Musical comedy, George M. Cohan ; Black musical theater ; Jerome Kern, Show Boat ; Golden Age of Broadway musicals (1930-55), Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein ; Expansion of the Broadway musical, Lerner and Loewe, Leonard Bernstein ; Musical theater ensemble, Stephen Sondheim ; Music for Films. History of music in films, Silent films, Early sound films, The Hollywood sound, Pop scores, Electronic music ; Current trends ; The composer's perspective ; Filmscore performance and recordings ; American opera. Opera, Solo and ensemble singing ; Opera in America, Virgil Thomson, George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, Gian-Carlo Menotti ; American opera today -- pt. 6. A wealth of vernacular musics. Country music. From country to city, Jimmie Rodgers ; Radio spreads the message ; Styles of country music, Cajun country ; Country goes western, Western swing, Honky-tonk ; Country pop, The folk revival ; Country in the Nineties ; Latin popular music. The Caribbean, A popular religion: Santeria, Bomba, Rumba, Cu-bop, Mambo, Salsa, Reggae ; Brazil, Samba and Bossa Nova ; Mexico, Conjuntos, Mariachis ; |
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Rock and roll. The generation gap ; Roots of rock and roll, Rhythm and blues, Country music meets R&B ; Birth of rock and roll, Bill Haley, Elvis Presley ; Early characteristics, End of the first era ; Surfing music ; Motown ; The British invasion, The Beatles, Post-Beatles English rock ; Back to black rock, Soul ; From rock and roll to rock, Folk rock, Acid rock ; The many moods of rock. The Rolling Stones ; Jazz rock ; Art rock ; Heavy metal ; Funk ; Disco ; Rap ; Punk ; New Wave ; A multiplicity of styles ; A promising future -- pt. 7. Music for the concert hall. Experimental music : revolution. Charles Ives, Philosophy of music, Instrumental compositions, Songs ; Henry Cowell, Early compositions, Piano experiments ; Edgard Varése ; Philosophy of music, Early compositions ; A career interrupted, New music continued ; Control vs. chance, Concrete music, Electronic synthesizer, Twelve-tone technique ; Milton Babbitt ; Random effects in the arts ; John Cage, Gamelan music, Prepared piano ; Other composers of chance music ; The new virtuosity ; Mainstream concert music : evolution. The Paris scene ; Aaron Copland, Depression and war years, Music for Dance, Later Works ; Samuel Barber ; Harlem renaissance ; William Grant Still ; Recent trends in concert music, Rhythm and timbre ; New relations among the arts. |
| Subject |
Music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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United States. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Ferris, Jean. America's musical landscape. 3rd ed. Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill, c1998 (OCoLC)651977074 |
| ISBN |
0697340627 |
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9780697340627 |
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