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In this “History of American Music,” the second of the series, the author has told of the beginnings, the foreign influences, the changes, the methods, the personal endeavors, that have gone to the making of our present music. Many of the events here narrated occurred but yesterday or are happening to-day, and hence have little perspective for the historian. It has not always been possible to say a final word, even if that were desirable. In its stead the widely scattered facts have been brought together and arranged sequentially that they might tell their own story and point their own conclusion.
Contents
The Religious Beginnings of American Music—Early Musical Organizations—Instrumental Music and American Orchestras—Musical Societies and Institutions—Opera in America—The Folk-Music of America—National and Patriotic Music—American Tone-Masters—The Orchestral Composers of America—Other Orchestral Composers of America—Operatic, Cantata, and Vocal Composers—American Song-Composers—Organists, Choir and Chorus Leaders—The American Composers for Pianoforte—American Women in Music—Musical Criticism and Authorship—The Musical Education of the Present—Qualities and Defects of American Music—General Bibliography—Index.
“At last the widely scattered facts which must be the basis of any competent study of American Music are so brought together as to tell their own story and point their own conclusion.
“Written in a kindly spirit by an able critic, it is without question the most comprehensive and the best of the works of its class.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
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