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A Celebration of American music : words and music in honor of H. Wiley Hitchcock / edited by Richard Crawford, R. Allen Lott, and Carol J. Oja.

Format Book and Print
Publication InfoAnn Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1990.
Descriptionxi, 519 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorHitchcock, H. Wiley (Hugh Wiley), 1923-2007.
Other author/creatorCrawford, Richard, 1935-
Other author/creatorLott, R. Allen, 1956-
Other author/creatorOja, Carol J., 1953-
Contents H. Wiley Hitchcock and American music / Richard Crawford -- Musical offerings. Greetings in three-four time / Ross Lee Finney -- For Wiley H / William Schuman -- African-American music. An early Black concert company: the Hyers Sisters combination / Eileen Southern -- Theodore F. Seward and the Fisk Jubilee Singers / Dena J. Epstein -- On the trail of A Guest of Honor: in search of Scott Joplin's lost opera / Edward A. Berlin -- Musical offering. Three cultivated choruses on texts set by Caccini in Le Nuove Musiche / Milton Babbitt -- Musical memories. The Cowells and the written word / Sidney Cowell -- Lunch at Virgil's, tea at the Ambassador (fragment from an unpublished Stravinsky memoir) / Minna Lederman -- Thor Johnson: a personal memoir / Bill Lichtenwanger -- The truth about H. Wiley Hitchcock / Joan Morris and William Bolcom -- Musical offering. A Hitchcock fanfare / Peter Dickinson -- Isaac L. Rice: What is music? / Siegmund Levarie -- The great piano war of the 1870s / Cynthia Adams Hoover -- Music and musicians at the mountain resorts of Western Virginia, 1820-1900 / Katherine K. Preston -- Bernard Ullman: nineteenth-century American impresario / R. Allen Lott -- Jullien and his Music for the Million / John Graziano -- Musical offerings. Wiley Hitchcock: two birds / Virgil Thomson -- "Yes me" from Three wordless songs / Noah Creshevsky -- European and American crosscurrents. "Ancient music" and the Europeanizing of American psalmody, 1800-1810 / Richard Crawford -- Dvorak, Beach, and American music / Adrienne Fried Block -- Two seductresses: Saint-Saëns's Delilah and Chadwick's Judith / Steven Ledbetter -- Musical offerings. Wiley's waltz / Robert Starer -- Soliloquy for organ / Dorothy Klotzman -- After World War I. Roy Harris: the story of an Oklahoma composer who was born in a log cabin on Lincoln's birthday / Nicolas Slonimsky -- A conversation with Alfred Frankenstein about Henry Cowell's New Music / Rita H. Mead -- Virgil Thomson's Harvard years / Carol J. Oja -- A blues for the ages / Charles Hamm -- Making American music: Henry Hadley and the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra / Susan Feder -- Musical offering. A fractal for Wiley Hitchcock / Charles Dodge -- Two American originals. "The second of July": a Charles Ives draft considered as an independent work / Wayne D. Shirley -- Dissonant counterpoint revisited: the first movement of Ruth Crawford's String quartet 1931 / Judith Tick -- Musical offering. I can remember / Bruce Saylor -- Perspectives on American music. Accustomed to the interface: observations on the bibliography of American music / D. W. Krummel -- "Monumenta Americana" revisited / Vivian Perlis -- Prosodic syncopation / Victor Fell Yellin -- Popular music under a TIPEE / William P. Malm -- Musical offering. From the sixpak sonatas / Gordon Mumma -- Composers of our time. James Tenney: some historical perspectives / Peter Garland -- An orchestra is born: the story of the American composers orchestra / Francis Thorne -- The edge of imagination / Roger Reynolds -- The published writings of H. Wiley Hitchcock: a bibliography.
Abstract Compositions, memoirs, and essays that celebrate the variety and vitality of American music.
Bibliography note"The published writings of H. Wiley Hitchcock : a bibliography": pages 501-506.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 89020280
ISBN0472094009 (alk. paper) :

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