Coming of Age of American Art Music New England's Classical Romanticists

Name: Coming of Age of American Art Music New England's Classical Romanticists
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ISBN: 9780313277979

ISBN-10: 0313277974

ISBN-13: 9780313277979

Edition: 1991

Authors: Nicholas E. Tawa

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In the years following the Civil War, a tradition of American art music arose that has now come to be neglected and almost ignored. This work studies that period of music that preceded Copland, Sessions, and Thomson by focusing on a number of its important composers, as well as the society that produced them. John Knowles Paine, George Chadwick, Edward MacDowell, Horatio Parker, Arthur Foote, and Amy Beach all achieved national and international reputations for the high quality of their compositions, which included songs, keyboard pieces, chamber works, oratorios, concertos, symphonies, and operas. But with the great changes of the 1920s, music critics and historians either flatly dismissed…

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List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 4/9/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface


Composer, Music, and Community Nourishing the Composer Artistic Frames of Reference John


Knowles Paine (1839-1906) George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931) Edward MacDowell (1860-1908


Three Composers: Parker, Foote, Beach Evaluating the Six Composers and Their Music Selected


Bibliography


Musical Examples


Index