| Description |
xx, 327 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Detroit monographs in musicology/Studies in music ; no. 53
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Detroit monographs in musicology/Studies in music ; no. 53.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
People and events before the twentieth century. Introduction / Carolyn Livingston ; Traditional music of the Indians of Rhode Island and related tribes / Rodney J. Caron ; Charles Theodore Pachelbel and his tenure as organist at Newport's Trinity Church / Raymond Perry ; William Billings : his time in Rhode Island / Gregory E. Arsenault ; Newport Gardner : the first African American music educator / Daniel S. Reynolds ; Andrew Law : American tunesmith / Antonio Grelle ; Oliver Shaw : a musician for his time / Judith Deniston Falconer ; Scottish music in Rhode Island from the Highland Clearances to the present / Fiona J. McIntosh ; Eben Tourjée : early national leader in music education / James Manning ; The American Band of Providence, 1837 to the present / Aaron Weitekamp ; David Wallis Reeves : father of American band music / Robin Murphy ; The Lusitana Portuguese American Band : a cultural influence in Rhode Island / Donna Garcia Valente ; The life and times of Sissieretta Jones / Helen L. Glynn ; George M. Cohan : Rhode Island's Yankee Doodle Dandy / Carolyn Livingston -- People and events since 1900. Introduction / Dawn Elizabeth Smith ; Elodie Farnum : a gifted prodigy / Lisa Quigley Giorgianni ; Stephen E. Farnum : innovator in music testing / Michael J. Boday ; Bobby Hackett : dixieland swing cornetist / Mark D. Baker ; Elizabeth Crook : five decades in music education / Robert G. Fraleigh ; Aurora Spadea Curran : pioneer in Suzuki talent education / Laurette M. Vitello ; Abraham A. Schwadron : music education visionary / James N. DeFrancesco, Donald J. Smith, and Carolyn Livingston ; Providence's music mansion : the Mary Kimball Hail legacy / Patricia Lill Maher ; Theatre-by-the-sea : a Rhode Island treasure / Kristen Nester ; Rhode Island's WPA music project and its orchestra / Tsukasa Cherkaoui ; The Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, 1954-2007 / Leslie Ricci Lee ; The Newport Jazz Festival : its early years and its impact on jazz / Ming-lung Dawn Chung ; The Newport Music Festival / Andrew Maddock ; Music in the Westerly Public Schools since 1970 / Dawn Elizabeth Smith. |
| Subject |
Music -- Rhode Island -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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Rhode Island. |
| Added Author |
Livingston, Carolyn, 1936-
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Smith, Dawn Elizabeth.
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| ISBN |
0899901433 alkaline paper |
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9780899901435 alkaline paper |
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