Oscar Sonneck and American music / edited for the Sonneck Society by William Lichtenwanger ; with a foreword by Irving Lowens.

Author/creator Sonneck, O. G.
Other author Lichtenwanger, William, 1915-2000.
Other author Sonneck Society.
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1983.
Descriptionxxii, 277 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Sonneck, O. G. (Oscar George), 1873-1928.
Music--United States. --History and criticism.

SeriesMusic in American life
Music in American life. ^A223005
Contents Foreword / Irving Lowens -- Part 1. Writings by Sonneck. Prize don'ts for the public -- A plea for home products -- European fallacies and American music -- The bibliography of American music -- The music division of the Library of Congress: methods, policies, and resources -- German influence on the musical life of America -- The musical life of America from the standpoint of musical topography -- A contemporary account of music in Charleston, S. C., of the year 1783 -- Sonneck person-to-person: three informal communications. Suggestions on research into music in early America ; Reader's report on a music book manuscript ; Letter to Carl Engel -- Pacific avenue: or, in search of a birthplace -- The American composer and the American music publisher -- The communistic cell: a symphonic hypoblast, op. 100 by "Bill Jones" -- An American school of composition: do we want and need it? -- The future of musicology in America -- Part 2. Writings about Sonneck -- O. G. Sonneck: October 6, 1873 - October 30, 1928 / Herbert Putnam -- A postscript / Carl Engel -- Oscar G. Sonneck / Carl Engel -- Oscar George Theodore Sonneck (1873-1928) / Otto Kinkeldey -- The significance of Oscar Sonneck: a centennnial tribute / Gilbert Chase -- After 100(!) years: the editorial side of Sonneck; a lecture / H. Wiley Hitchcock -- Oscar George Theodore Sonneck: his writings and musical compositions, with a list of portraits and of writings about him; a bibliography / Irving Lowens.
Abstract A gathering of those writings on American music by Oscar Sonneck first published in scattered and sometimes obscure sources, followed by comments on his life and work by Herbert Putnam, Carl Engel, Otto Kinkeldey, Gilbert Chase, and H. Wiley Hitchcock. With a bibliography of his writings and musical compositions, and of writings about him, by Irving Lowens.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 235-264) and index.
LCCN 82013670
ISBN0252010213 (alk. paper)

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