Our American music ; three hundred years of it / John Tasker Howard.
| Author/creator | Howard, John Tasker |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 3d ed., rev. and reset. |
| Publication Info | New York : Thomas Y. Crowell company, [1947, ©1946] |
| Description | xxii, 841 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, music ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part I. 1620-1800: Euterpe in the wilderness. Early days. New England psalmody ; Early church organs ; Early secular music in New England ; Philadelphia, New York, and the South -- Our first composers. Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791) ; James Lyon (1735-1794) ; William Billings and his "Fuging pieces" (1746-1800) -- The latter eighteenth century. New England ; Post-revolutionary immigrants in New York and Philadelphia -- Part II. 1800-1860: Euterpe clears the forest. Our first national airs. Yankee Doodle ; Hail Columbia ; The Star-Spangled Banner ; America -- The turn of the century. Foreign and native artists ; Lowell Mason (1792-1872) and the return of the native composer ; Mason's contemporaries -- 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 (1829-1869) -- Foreign invasion fo 1848 -- The awakening of a national consciousness. Anton Philip Heinrich (1781-1861) ; William Henry Fry (1815?-1864) ; George F. Bristow (1825-1898) -- Part III. 1860 to the present. Songs of the civil war. Dixie and The Battle Hymn ; Other war songs -- The spread of musical culture. Westward expansion ; William Mason (1829-1908) ; Theodore Thomas (1835-1905) ; Other teachers and composers of the period -- The parents of our contemporaries. The grandfathers ; The Boston group ; Edward MacDowell (1861-1908) ; Links with the past -- Contemporary composers. Composers born in the 1870s ; From the 1880s ; From the 1890s ; From the 1900s ; Composers born since 1910 ; Composers best known by their smaller works -- Latter-century and present-day religious music. Dudley Buck (1839-1909) and his successors ; Folk hymns and the gospel song -- Our folk music. The music of the North American Indian ; Negro folk music ; Other sources of folk songs -- Our lighter musical moments. Yesterday ; Ragtime to jazz and swing ; Twentieth-century composers of popular music. |
| Abstract | The survey of 300 years of music in America traces the development of music, in folk song, national air, the concert stage and musical composition, to the present day. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 693-743) and index. |
| LCCN | 46005438 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML200.H8 O8 1948 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |