| Description |
xv, 447 pages : frontispiece, portraits ; 23 cm |
| Note |
At head of title: John Tasker Howard with the assistance of Arthur Mendel. |
| Bibliography |
"A selected list of books relating to contemporary American music": pages 349-350. "Recorded works by American composers": pages 351-371. |
| Contents |
From Yesterday to Today -- Bridges To The Past -- Safe and Sound -- Henry Kimball Hadley -- Deems Taylor -- John Alden Carpenter -- Daniel Gregory Mason -- David Stanley Smith -- Charles Wakefield Cadman -- Sons of Harvard -- Ernest Schelling -- Richard Hageman -- From West of the Alleghenies -- Women Composers -- Howard Hanson -- Leo Sowerby -- Albert Stoessel -- Douglas Moore -- Seth Bingham -- Abram Chasins -- Samuel Barlow -- Werner Janssen -- Bernard Rogers -- Horace Johnson -- Harold Morris -- Randall Thompson -- Composer Performers -- Unfamiliar Idioms -- Pioneer Free-Thinkers -- Roy Harris -- Aaron Copland -- Louis Gruenberg -- Emerson Whithorne -- Walter Piston -- Quincy Porter -- Richard Donovan -- Richard Hammond -- Lazare Saminsky -- Frederick Jacobi -- Roger Sessions -- Pjilip James -- John Duke -- Harl McDonald -- Arthur Shepherd -- Some Other Middle-Westerners -- Nicolai Berezowsky -- Otto Luening -- Ernst Bacon -- Exotics by Birth or Choice -- Marion Bauer -- Newcomers -- Juilliard Alumni -- The Eastman Group -- From the Curtis Institute -- From other Schools and Teachers -- Dante Fiorillo -- Experimenters -- Scientific Innovators -- Unicorn and Lion -- Atonalists -- "New Music" -- From France -- The Clever Ones -- Folk-Song and Racial Expressions -- From Indian Sources -- The Anglo-Saxon Heritage -- Negro Composers -- Broadway and Its Echoes -- Jazz -- "Swing" and its Performers -- Broadway Composers -- Jazz in the Concert Hall -- Further Echoes of Broadway -- Today and Tommorow -- Philanthropic Foundations -- Composers' Organizations -- Music during the Depression -- The Federal Music Project -- Other Institutions in the 1930's -- Radio and Sound Films -- ASCAP and Payment for Performing Rights -- Grand Rights -- The NAACC -- Performance by Major Orchestras -- Recent Recruits |
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Musicians -- United States.
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Musicians. |
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United States. |
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Music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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Music -- History and criticism.
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Composers -- United States.
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Composers. |
| Added Author |
Mendel, Arthur, 1905-1979.
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| Added Title |
American music in the twentieth century |
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