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The American composer speaks : a historical anthology, 1770-1965 / edited by Gilbert Chase.

By:

Chase, Gilbert, 1906-1992 [edt]

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Material type: Text

DDC classification:

780.0814 20 CHA

LOC classification:

ML90 .C55

Contents:

CONTENTS : To all musical practitioners / William Billings -- Dialogue, between master and scholar / William Billings -- Dedication to His Excellency George Washington, Esquire / Francis Hopkinson -- Preface to the Dawning of music in Kentucky / Anthony Philip Heinrich -- Letter to Mr. Seaton, Mayor of Washington D.C. / Anthony Philip Heinrich -- Prefatory remarks to Leonora / William Henry Fry -- Letters to E.P. Christy / Stephen Collins Foster -- From Notes of a Pianist / Louis Moreau Gottschalk -- Preface to The Christian Harmony / William Walker -- From Shadows on a Wall / John Hill Hewitt -- Suggestion in music / Edward A. MacDowell -- An affirmation of American music / Arthur Farwell -- The American composer / Henry F.B. Gilbert -- Epilogue from Essays before a Sonata / Charles Ives -- The dilemma of American music / Daniel Gregory Mason -- New musical resources / Henry Cowell -- The composer in the machine age / George Gershwin -- Problems of American composers / Roy Harris -- Jazz music comes from New Orleans / Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton -- Composer from Brooklyn / Aaron Copland -- How composers eat / Virgil Thomson -- Freedom for music / Edgard Varese -- American musical tendencies / Harry Partch -- Stravinsky and the younger American composers / Arthur Berger -- The future in the form of jazz / Gunther Schuller -- Experimental music / John Cage -- Who cares if you listen? / Milton Babbitt -- A further step / Elliott Carter -- The younger generation / William Flanagan -- Problems and issues facing the composer today / Roger Sessions -- Opera and the American composer / Charles Hamm -- Some notes on composing / Earle Brown.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Academy of Music & Performing Arts Library General Stacks	Non-fiction	780.0814 CHA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		A03132

Bibliography: p. 307-312.

CONTENTS : To all musical practitioners / William Billings -- Dialogue, between master and scholar / William Billings -- Dedication to His Excellency George Washington, Esquire / Francis Hopkinson -- Preface to the Dawning of music in Kentucky / Anthony Philip Heinrich -- Letter to Mr. Seaton, Mayor of Washington D.C. / Anthony Philip Heinrich -- Prefatory remarks to Leonora / William Henry Fry -- Letters to E.P. Christy / Stephen Collins Foster -- From Notes of a Pianist / Louis Moreau Gottschalk -- Preface to The Christian Harmony / William Walker -- From Shadows on a Wall / John Hill Hewitt -- Suggestion in music / Edward A. MacDowell -- An affirmation of American music / Arthur Farwell -- The American composer / Henry F.B. Gilbert -- Epilogue from Essays before a Sonata / Charles Ives -- The dilemma of American music / Daniel Gregory Mason -- New musical resources / Henry Cowell -- The composer in the machine age / George Gershwin -- Problems of American composers / Roy Harris -- Jazz music comes from New Orleans / Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton -- Composer from Brooklyn / Aaron Copland -- How composers eat / Virgil Thomson -- Freedom for music / Edgard Varese --
American musical tendencies / Harry Partch -- Stravinsky and the younger American composers / Arthur Berger -- The future in the form of jazz / Gunther Schuller -- Experimental music / John Cage -- Who cares if you listen? / Milton Babbitt -- A further step / Elliott Carter -- The younger generation / William Flanagan -- Problems and issues facing the composer today / Roger Sessions -- Opera and the American composer / Charles Hamm -- Some notes on composing / Earle Brown.

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