As a final word we must recall Henry Clay Work's 'Marching through Georgia,' which is perhaps the best of the tunes written expressly as war songs. It is a stirring melody with all the qualities of a national anthem, though unfortunately its partisan inspiration and associations will not allow it to be such. There is nothing to record in the way of patriotic songs since the stormy days of the Civil War. Peaceful times have turned composers' attention elsewhere, and progress in the higher forms of art music has gone on apace. Accordingly, it now becomes our duty to record the achievements of American musicians in the field of conscious creative endeavor.
C. S.
FOOTNOTES:
[60] 'Nationalism in Music,' in 'The International,' Dec., 1913.
[61] H. E. Krehbiel, 'Afro-American Folksongs,' 1914.
[62] H. E. Krehbiel, op. cit.
[63] Richard Wallaschek: 'Primitive Music,' London, 1893.
[64] 'Slave Songs of the United States,' New York, 1867.
[65] 'Ten Years in South Africa.'
[66] H. E. Krehbiel, op. cit.