LEADER 20783cam 22004214a 4500001 ocm47893497 003 OCoLC 005 20141212163333.0 008 010828s2002 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 2001044816 020 0393974111 (pbk.) 035 (Sirsi) o47893497 035 (OCoLC)47893497 040 DLC |cDLC |dYHM |dC#P |dIBS |dERE |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 049 EREM 050 00 ML200 |b.T67 2002 082 00 780/.973 |221 245 00 To stretch our ears : |ba documentary history of America's music / |cedited by J. Heywood Alexander. 250 1st ed. 260 New York : |bW.W. Norton, |c©2002. 300 xix, 508 pages ; |c24 cm 336 text |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |2rdamedia 338 volume |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 |gPart I. |tThe first three centuries. |tFirst European contacts. |tFrench protestant psalm tunes in Florida. |tNicholas Le Challeux, from Brief Account of a Voyage in Florida (1579) ; |tJacques Le Moyne de Morgues, from Brief narrative of What Occurred in the French Colony in Florida (1562-65) ; |tThe Huguenot Psalter, psalms 128 and 130 (1547) -- |tThe Indians of Quebec. |tFather Paul Le Jeune, from report on the Indians of Quebec (1634) -- |tEarly christian music making in New England. |tSpanish Catholic missionaries. |tFray Alonso de Benavides, from Revised Memorial (1634) -- |tThe Ainsworth Psalter. |tThe Ainsworth Psalter, psalms 128 and 130 (1644) -- |tThe Bay Psalm Book. |tJohn Winthrop, journal entry (1640) ; |tThe Bay Psalm Book, first edition, "An admonition to the reader" (1640) ; |tThe Bay Psalm Book, third edition, "To the Godly reader" (1651) ; |tThe Bay Psalm Book, first and third editions, three psalms (1640, 1651) ; |tThe Bay Psalm Book, ninth edition, "The tunes of the psalms" (1698) -- |tAgitating for regular singing. |tThomas Symmes, from The Reasonableness of Regular Singing (1720) ; |tCotton Mather, from The Accomplished Singer (1721); |tCotton Mather, from letter to Thomas Hollis (1723) ; |tCotton Mather, from letter to Thomas Bradbury (1724) -- |tThe flowering of sacred music. |tThe tunebooks of John Tufts and Thomas Walter. |tThomas Walter, from The Grounds and Rules of Musick Explained (1721) -- |tA significant tunebook. |tJames Lyon, from Urania (1761) |tWilliam Billings, singing master. |tWilliam Billings, from The Singing Master's Assistant (1778) -- |tThe utopian spirit. |tJacob Gass? and Johann Peter Miller, from Chronicon Ephratense (1786) ; |tJacob Duche, from letter to the Lord Bishop of B-l (1774) -- |tThe Moravians and their music. |tBenjamin Franklin, diary entry (1756) ; |tHenry Leavitt Ellsworth, diary entry (1811) ; |tJames Henry, from Sketches of Moravian Life and Character (1859) -- |tColonial song, dance, and home music making. |tYankee Doodle rides into town. |tText of Yankee Doodle, or The Lexington march (1775?) ; |tText of The Farmer and His Son's Return from a Visit to the Camp (1786?) ; |tText of Yankee Doodle (c. 1798) -- |tPhiladelphia's birthday balls for George Washington. |tHenry Wansey, from The Journal of an Excursion (1796) ; |tJulian Ursyn Niemcewicz, travel diary entries (1798; pub. 1959) -- |tFrancis Hopkinson, composer and statesman. |tFrancis Hopkinson, from Seven Songs for the Harpsichord or Forte Piano (1788) -- |tEarly concert and theater music and music publishing. |tAlexander Reinagle. |tAnonymous, "Mr. Reinagle" (1822) -- |tAfrican music in early America. |tThe gospel labors of Richard Allen. |tRichard Allen, from The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors (c. 1793; pub. 1887) ; |tRichard Allen, ed., Two Hymns (1801) -- |tReform of New England psalmody. |tAmerican tunebook prefaces around 1800. |tSamuel Holyoke, preface to Harmonia Americana (1791) ; |tOliver Holden, preface to American Harmony (1792) ; |tWilliam Cooper, preface to The Beauties of Church Music (1804) ; |tFrom preface to The Salem Collection of Classical Sacred Musick (1805) ; |tElias Mann, preface to The Massachusetts Collection of Sacred Harmony (1807) -- |tAndrew Law, psalmodist. |tAndrew Law, from The Art of Singing (1803) -- 505 00 |gPart II. |tThe nineteenth century. |tFurthering the cause of musical reform. |tJohn Hubbard, mathematician and philosopher. |tJohn Hubbard, from An Essay on Music (1808) -- |tNathaniel D. Gould and sacred music in New England. |tNathaniel D. Gould, from An Address Delivered at New-Ipswich, N. H. (1818) ; |tNathaniel D. Gould, from Church Music in America (1853) -- |tEdification and economics: the careers of Lowell Mason and George F. Root. |tLowell Mason, music educator. |tLowell Mason, "Method of teaching," from The Pestalozzian Music Teacher (1871) -- |tGeorge F. Root, songwriter and music publisher. |tGeorge F. Root, text of The Battle-Cry of Freedom (1862) ; |tGeorge F. Root, from The Story of a Musical Life (1891) -- |tFolk and devotional music. |tThe music of camp meetings. |tLorenzo Dow, from History of Cosmopolite (1814) ; |tPeter Cartwright, from Autobiography (1856) ; |tGrace Reviving the Soul, hymn text (1809) -- |tShape-note hymnody. |tAnanias Davisson, from Kentucky Harmony (1816) -- |tThe enduring qualities of Fasola. |tWilliam Walker, from preface to The Southern Harmony (1835) ; |tB. F. White and E. J. King, preface to The Sacred Harp (1844) ; |tGeorge Pullen Jackson, from White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands (1933) -- |tJoshua Leavitt and religious revivals. |tJoshua Leavitt, from The Christian Lyre (1831) -- |tTheater and opera, 1800-1860. |tTwo prima donnas: Maria Malibran and Elizabeth Austin. |tRichard Storrs Willis?, from "Biography of Malibran" (1854) ; |tAnonymous, "Mrs. Ausin" (1830) -- |tJenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale. |tJenny Lind, letter to her parents (1850) ; |tCharles G. Rosenberg, from Jenny Lind in America (1851) ; |tTwo reviews of Jenny Lind's second Washington concert (1850) -- |tNew England traditions revisited. |tRobert J. Kemp, from Father Kemp and His Old Folks (1868) -- |tBlacks, whites, and the minstrel stage. |tNegro minstrelsy. |tRichard Storrs Willis?, from "Negro minstrelsy" (1853) ; |tAnonymous, "Negro minstrels on the western rivers, by one who has been there" (1852) -- |tJim Crow and The Coal Black Rose. |tThomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice, text of Jim Crow (c. 1830) ; |tFrancis Courtney Wemyss, from "Mr. Thomas Rice" (1848) ; |tGeorge Washington Dixon, text of The Coal Black Rose (c. 1830) -- |tDan Emmett and the Virginia minstrels. |tDaniel Decatur Emmett, text of The Fine Old Colored Gentleman (1843) -- |tPeedee or Swanee? Stephen Collins Foster. |tStephen Foster, sketches for text of Old Folks at Home (1851) ; |tStephen Foster, published text of Old Folks at Home (1851) ; |tMorrison Foster, from Biography, Songs, and Musical Compositions of Stephen C. Foster (1896) ; |tStephen Foster, letter to Edwin P. Christy (1852) ; |tNews item on Old Folks at Home (1852) ; |tAnonymous, text of Great Democratic Song (c. 1853) -- |tSheet music and the music business. |tPatriotic songs. |tAlexander Reinagle, text of America, Commerce, and Freedom (1794?) ; |tThomas Paine, text of Adams and Liberty (1798) ; |tFrancis Scott Key, text of Defence of Fort M'Henry (1814) ; |tText of A New Song (1793) ; |tSamuel Francis Smith, text of America (1831) -- |tThe brothers chickering. |tNews item on the new piano factory (1854) -- |tS. Brainard's Sons: the model music house of America. |tKarl Merz, "Half a century: S. Brainard's Sons' golden anniversary" (1886) -- |tParlor songs and social reform. |tJohn Hill Hewitt: writer, publisher, and composer. |tJohn Hill Hewitt, from Shadows on the Wall (1877) ; |tJohn Hill Hewitt, three poems (1838) -- |tThe Hutchinson family. |tHutchinson family singers, journal entries (1843-1844) ; |tJohn Wallace Hutchinson, from Story of the Hutchinsons (1896) -- |tShouting the jubilee of temperance. |tArba Lankton, from Incidents in the Life of Arba Lankton (1891); |tArba Lankton, texts of two songs (1889) -- |tBands and orchestras, 1800 to the 1870s. |tThe Dodworth band. |tAllen Dodworth, from Dodworth's Brass Band School (1853) ; |tReview of Dodworth's band concert (1849) -- |tPatrick S. Gilmore and his magnificent vision. |tPatrick S. Gilmore, from History of the National Peace Jubilee (1871) -- |tFrom church to concert hall. |tA new vision of concert life: Boston's Handel and Haydn society. |tConcert advertisement (1815) ; |tConcert review in the Boston Patriot (1816) ; |tConcert review in the Columbian Centinel (1816) ; |tFrom preface to The Boston Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music (1822)-- |tHenry Erben and his splendid organ. |t"Trinity organ" (1846) -- |tJohn Sullivan Dwight and his Journal of Music. |tJohn Sullivan Dwight, from a statement on American music (1854) ; |tJohn Sullivan Dwight, "Native musical talent" (1854) -- |tLouis Jullien and New York's musical congress. |t"The musical congress: great gathering at the crystal palace" (1854) ; |tGeorge Templeton Strong, diary entry (1854) -- |tTheodore Thomas, traveling virtuoso. |tNews item on the march from sea to sea (1883) ; |tTheodore Thomas, from "The methods of a great conductor" (1883) ; |tTheodore Thomas, from "Musical possibilities in America" (1881) -- |tFrom log house to opera house. |tAnthony Philip Heinrich, the Beethoven of America. |tAnthony Philip Heinrich, preface to The Dawning of Music in Kentucky (1820) ; |tAnonymous, "Musical diary. A. P. Heinrich" (1823) -- |tNotable American opera. |tWilliam Henry Fry, from prefatory remarks to Leonora (1845) ; |tFrancis Courtney Wemyss, from Theatrical Biography (1848) ; |tAnnouncements and review of George Frederick Bristow's Rip Van Winkle (1855) -- |tThe American perspective: Fry and Bristow again. |tWilliam Henry Fry, open letter to Richard Storrs Willis (1853) ; |tGeorge Frederick Bristow, open letter to Richard Storrs Willis (1854) -- |tSouth versus north: slavery and the Civil War. |tThe music of slavery. |tFrederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) ; |tWilliam Wells Brown, from My Southern Home (1880) -- |tLet my people go. |tThe Contrabands' freedom hymn (1861) ; |tNews item on the Contrabands' freedom hymn (1862) ; |tSong of the Negro Boatmen (1862) ; |tJulia Ward Howe, text of Battle Hymn of the Republic (1862) -- |tVoices of Abolition. |tTwo songs from The Anti-Slavery Harp (1854) ; |tLucy McKim, open letter to John Sullivan Dwight (1862) ; |tWilliam Francis Allen, from Slave Songs of the United States (1867) -- |tRallying 'round the flag: songs of the Civil War. |tS. Brainard's Sons, from Our War Songs North and South (1887) ; |tEthel Lynn Beers, text of All Quiet along the Potomac To-night (1863) ; |tJames Ryder Randall, text of Maryland, My Maryland (1861); |tAnonymous, text of Our Maryland (c. 1862)-- |tMusic afloat. |tRaphael Semmes, from Memoirs of Service Afloat during the War between the States (1869) -- |tAfter the war. |tJames M. Trotter and the music of black Americans. |tJames M. Trotter, from Music and Some Highly Musical People (1881) -- |tSpirituals after the War: improvising troubles into art forms. |tR. Nathaniel Dett, from Religious Folk-Songs of the Negro (1927) -- |tA New Orleans original. |tLouis Moreau Gottschalk, our quintessential Romantic. |tWilliam Mason, from Memories of a Musical Life (1901) ; |tLouis Moreau Gottschalk, "Notes of a Pianist, III" (1865) -- |tTwo Boston Composers. |tArthur Foote and the Boston group. |tArthur Foote, from An Autobiogrpahy (c. 1930; pub. 1946) ; |tArthur Foote, "A Bostonian remembers" (1937) -- |tAmy Beach and the gender issue. |tRupert Hughes, from "The Women Composers" (1896) ; |tArthur Elson, from Woman's Work in Music (1903) -- |tClassic German Romanticism. |tEdward MacDowell. |tEdward MacDowell, from "Suggestion in music" (1890s; pub. 1912) -- |tMusical nationalism. |tAntonin Dvorak and the development of national music. |tAntonin Dvorak, from "Real value of Negro melodies" (1893) ; |tAntonin Dvorak, from "An interesting Talk about 'From the New World' symphony" (1893) ; |tAntonin Dvorak, from "Music in America" (1895) -- |tAmy Beach replies to Antonin Dvorak. |tAmy Beach, from letter to the editor of The Boston Herald (1893) -- |tPatronage by notable American Women. |tFrom "The national conservatory of music of America" (1890) ; |tOlin Downes, from "Servant of Music" (1953) -- |tNative American music and music in Hawaii. |tFrank Mitchell (Olta'i Tsoh), Navaho Blessingway singer. |tFrank Mitchell, from Navaho Blessingway Singer (1960s; pub. 1978) -- |tSinging for power and Wakan'tanka. |tBlack Elk, from Black Elk Speaks -- |t"Speech to cleanse the village of sickness" (1938) ; |tLeft handed, from Son of Old Man Hat -- |tSongs from the northwest coast and the far north. |tHaida and Eskimo song texts (pub. 1934) -- |tHawaii. |tAdelbert von Chamisso, from "Remarks and opinions of the naturalist of the expedition" (1821) ; |tWilliam Ellis, from Narrative of a Tour through Hawaii (1823) -- |tMusic and religion. |tThe Shakers. |tBenson J. Lossing, from "The Shakers" (1857) ; |tShaker song texts (pub: 1940) -- |tThe Mormons: long live Brother Brigham Young. |tRichard F. Burton, from The City of the Saints (1862)-- |tIra D. Sankey and the power of the gospel. |tTwo gospel song texts (1875); |tIra D. Sankey, from My Life and the Story of the Gospel Hymns (1907) -- |tSousa, the phonograph, and Tin Pan Alley. |tJohn Philip Sousa. |tJohn Philip Sousa, from Marching Along (1928) -- |tThe business of music. |tEdward B. Marks, from They All Sang (1934) ; |tThomas Alva Edison, from The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison, (1920-25; pub. 1948) -- |tThe American cowboy. |tCowboy songs. |tNathan Howard Thorp, from "Banjo in the cow camps" (pub. 1945) ; |tNathan Howard Thorp, The Old Chisholm Trail (pub. 1942) ; |tJohn A. Lomax, "Collector's note" and Whoopee Ti Yi Yo (1910) -- 505 00 |gPart III. |tThe twentieth century. |tMusic for America. |tArthur Farwell and music for a democracy. |tArthur Farwell, from "Pioneering for American music" (1935) ; |tArthur Farwell, from "The new gospel of music" (1914) -- |tHenry Gilbert: promoting American music. |tHenry Gilbert, from "The American composer" (1915)-- |tTo stretch our ears: the music of Charles Ives. |tCharles Ives. |tWinthrop P. Tryon, from "A composer in Wall Street" (1924) ; |tCharles Ives, from Memos (1932; pub. 1972) ; |tHenry Bellamann, from "Charles Ives: the man and his music" (1933) ; |tHenry Cowell, from American Composers on American Music (1933) ; |tCharles Ives, from "Some 'quarter-tone' impressions" (c. 1920; pub. 1962) ; |tCharles Ives, from Essays before a Sonata (1920) ; |tCharles Ives, from "Music and its future" (1933) ; |tAaron Copland, from Music and Imagination (1952) -- |t"Come on and hear": The early twentieth century. |tW. C. Handy: Memphis, Mr. Crump, and the blues. |tW. C. Handy, from Father of the Blues: An Autobiography (1941) -- |tRagtime: Joplin, Berlin, and J. R. Europe. |tMonroe H. Rosenfeld, "The king of ragtime composers is Scott Joplin" (1903) ; |tScott Joplin, from School of Ragtime (1908) ; |tFrom "Great composers get little; popular writers well paid" (1911) ; |t"Ragtime by U. S. army band gets everyone 'Over there'" (1918) -- |tReminiscing with Sissle and Blake. |tAnonymous ("Ibee"), "Shuffle along" (1921) -- |tThe jazz age: America and Europe. |tLouis Armstrong remembers New Orleans. |tLouis Armstrong, from A Self-Portrait (1966) -- |tGeorge Gershwin: stretching the boundaries. |tGeorge Gershwin, from "The relation of jazz to American Music" (1933) ; |tGeorge Gershwin, "Rhapsody in catfish row" (1935) -- |tDarius Milhaud: A European composer looks at jazz. |tDarius Milhaud, from Notes without Music (1953) -- |tClassical music through the Depression and beyond. |tEuropean composers in America. |tErnst Krenek, from "The transplanted composer" (1938) ; |tArnold Schoenberg, lecture (1934) ; |tRobert Craft, Igor Stravinsky and The Star-Spangled Banner (1960) -- |tVirgil Thomson: the lure of France. |tVirgil Thomson, Letter to Victor Yellin (1949) ; |tVirgil Thomson, from Virgil Thomson (1966) -- |tAaron Copland and the American artist. |tAaron Copland, from "The composer and his critic" (1932) ; |tAaron Copland, "Creativity in America" (1952) -- |tRoy Harris and the American composer. |tRoy Harris, from "Problems of American composers" (1933) -- |tEdgard Varese, "Statements by Edgard Varese" (pub. 1976) ; |tEdgard Varese, "Freedom for Music" (1939) -- |tEvenings on the roof. |tPeter Yates, from Evenings on the Roof: Fourth Report (1946) -- |tThe American Communist party. |tProletarian music. |tCharles Seeger, "On proletarian music" (1934) -- |tAmerican folk song and its collectors. |tCecil Sharp and English folk song in America. |tCecil Sharp, from English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians (1917) -- |tAlan Lomax: the map sings. |tAlan Lomax, from introduction to The Folk Songs of North America (1960) -- |tJazz goes national. |tJelly Roll Morton: the diamond king. |tMabel Morton, on her husband, Jelly Roll Morton (1949) -- |tThe business of music. |tASCAP: protection of performing rights. |tNews article, "Trust for control of music business" (1914) ; |tNews article, "Radio's battle of music (1940) ; |tNews article, "Peace on the air" (1941) -- |tWilliam Grant Still, African-American composer. |tWilliam Grant Still, from "Can music make a career?" (1948) -- |tEllington, Basie, and the swing band. |tCount Basie. |tCount Basie, from Good Morning Blues (1985) -- |tDuke Ellington. |tDuke Ellington, from Music is My Mistress (1973) -- |tThe American musical. |tThe Broadway melody. |tReviews in Variety (1929) -- |tNationalism, optimism, and Oklahoma!. |tLewis Nichols, review of Oklahoma! (1943) -- |tClassical music in the postwar years. |tElliot Carter. |tAllen Edwards, from Flawed Words and Stubborn Sounds: A Conversation with Elliot Carter (1971) -- |tMilton Babbitt and the American avant-garde. |tMilton Babbitt, "Who cares if you listen?" (1958) -- |tJohn Cage: the perpetual process of artistic discovery. |tJohn Cage, "The future of music: credo" (1937; pub. 1961) ; |tJohn Cage, from "Cosmopolitan" (1952) ; |tJohn Cage, from Silence (1961) ; |tSteven Montague, "John Cage at seventy: an interview" (1985) -- |tRock and roll. |tAn underground look at rock. |tChester Anderson, "Notes for the new geology" (1967) -- |tRock criticism: Lester Bangs and Greil Marcus. |tLester Bangs, from "A final chat with Lester Bangs," interview by Jim DeRogatis (c. 1982; pub. 1999) ; |tGreil Marcus, from "Do politics rock?" interview by Billy Bob Hargus (1997) -- |tBluegrass and gospel. |tBluegrass: Bill Monroe and the blue grass boys. |tAlan Lomax, "Bluegrass background: folk music with overdrive" (1959) ; |tRalph Rinzler, from "A visit to Rosine and other observations" (1993) -- |tMahalia Jackson and gospel songs of hope. |tMahalia Jackson, from Movin On Up (1966) -- |tJazz, Bernstein, and third stream. |tInnovators in Jazz: Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. |tMichael Levin and John S. Wilson, from "The Chili parlor interview" (1949) ; |tJohn Coltrane, "Coltrane on Coltrane" -- |tLeonard Bernstein: the measure of the man. |tLeonard Bernstein, "The mountain disappears" (1954) ; |tLeonard Bernstein, from "Speaking of music" (1957) ; |tRobert Chesterman, from "Leonard Bernstein in conversation" (1976) -- |tGunther Schuller and the third stream. |tGunther Schuller, "'Third stream' redefined" (1961) ; |tGunther Schuller, from "Third stream revisited" (1981) -- |tPerformance art, minimalism, and the new romanticism. |tPauline Oliveros and performance art. |tPauline Oliveros, from "And don't call them 'lady' composers" (1970) -- |tMinimalism and beyond. |tSteve Reich, from interview by William Duckworth (1995) ; |tPhilip Glass, from interview by William Duckworth (1995) ; |tJohn Adams, from interview by Reinder Pols (1991) -- |tThe late twentieth century. |tThe music business. |tRobert Osmun, interview by J. Heywood Alexander (1996) ; |tWalter Holtkamp, Jr., Interview by J. Heywood Alexander (1994) -- |tWynton Marsalis, spokesperson for jazz. |tWynton Marsalis, two interviews by Ted Panken (1993-94; pub. 1997) ; |tWynton Marsalis, from Sweet Swing Blues on the Road (1994) -- |tSupporting new music. |tJohn Duffy, interview by J. Heywood Alexander (1998) ; |tLibby Larsen, interview by J. Heywood Alexander (1998). 520 This text provides a collection of source readings that covers a variety of areas of American music history. Texts have been reliably transcribed from the original sources and presented with introductions, explanations and footnotes. 650 0 Music |zUnited States |xHistory and criticism. |=^A15730 650 0 Music |zUnited States |vSources. |=^A31182 700 1 Alexander, J. Heywood. |=^A155717 994 X0 |bERE 590 Little-348525--305131054951. 596 3 5 998 885316