| Edition |
3d ed., rev. and reset. |
| Description |
xxii, 841, A77 pages : portraits, facsimiles (including music) ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 693-743. |
| Contents |
EUTERPE IN THE WILDERNESS -- I.Early Days -- New England Psalmody -- Early Church Organs -- Early Secular Music in New England -- Philadelphia, New York, and the South -- II. Our First Composers -- Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791) -- James Lyon (1735-1794) -- William Billings and His "Fuguing Pieces" (1746-1800) -- III. The Latter Eighteenth Century -- New England -- Post-Revolutionary Immigrants in New York and Philadelphia -- EUTERPE CLEARS THE FOREST -- IV. Our First National Airs -- Yankee Doodle -- Hail Columbia -- The Star-Spangled Banner -- America -- V. The Turn of The Century -- Foreign and Native Artists -- Lowell Mason (1792-1872) and the Return of the Native Composer -- Mason's Contemporaries -- 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 -- VII. The Foreign Invasion of 1848 -- VIII. The Awakening of a National Conciousness -- Anton Philip Heinrich (1781-1861) -- William Henry Fry (1815 [?]-1864) -- George F. Bristow (1825-1898) -- EUTERPE BUILDS HER AMERICAN HOME -- IX. Songs of The Civil War -- Dizie and The Battle Hymn -- Other War Songs -- X. The Spread of Musical Culture -- Westward Expansion -- William Mason (1829-1908) -- Theodore Thomas (1835-1905) -- Other Teachers and Composers of the Period -- XI. The Parents of Our Contemporaries -- The Grandfathers -- The Boston Group -- Edward MacDowell (1861-1908) -- Links with the Past -- XII. Contemporary Composers -- Composers Born in the 1870's -- From the 1880's -- From the 1890's -- From the 1900's -- Composers Born since 1910 -- Composers Best Known by Their Smaller Works -- XII. Latter-Century and Present-Day Religious Music -- Dudley Buck (1839-1909) and His Successors -- Folk Hymns and the Gospel Song -- XIV. Our Folk Music -- The Music of the North American Indian -- Negro Folk Music -- Other Souces of Folk Songs -- XV. Our Lighter Musical Moments -- Yesterday -- Ragtime to Jazz and Swing -- Twentieth-Century Composers of popular Music |
| Subject |
Music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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United States. |
| Added Author |
Lyons, James, 1925-1973.
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