The art of music, Vol. 04 (of 14) — Text and Context

I. OUR ENGLISH INHERITANCE 1

The foundation of American musical culture--State of English musical culture in the seventeenth century--The Virginia colonists--The Puritans in England and in America; New England psalmody.

II. BEGINNINGS OF MUSICAL CULTURE IN AMERICA 22

The foundations of American music--New England's musical awakening; early publications of psalm-tunes; reform of church singing--Early concerts in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, the South--The American attitude toward music--The beginnings of American music: Hopkinson; Lyon; Billings and their contemporaries.

III. EARLY CONCERT LIFE 55

Sources of information--Boston Concerts of the eighteenth century; New England outside of Boston--Concerts in New York--Concerts in Philadelphia; open-air concerts--Concert life of the South; Charleston, Baltimore, etc.; Conclusion.

PART II. ORGANIZATION

IV. EARLY MUSICAL ORGANIZATIONS 84

Origin of musical societies--The South; The St. Cecilia of Charleston; Philadelphia and New York in the eighteenth century--The Euterpean Society; the New York Choral Society; Sacred Music Society; other New York Societies--New England in the eighteenth century; the Stoughton Musical Society of Boston; other societies in Boston and elsewhere.

V. THE BEGINNINGS OF OPERA 104

Scantiness of theatrical performances in America; Charleston and Tony Aston; New York, Philadelphia and elsewhere--The Revolution and after; rivalry between New York and Philadelphia--The New Orleans opera.

VI. OPERA IN THE UNITED STATES. PART I: NEW YORK 117

The New York opera as a factor of musical culture--Manuel García and his troupe; da Ponte's dream--The vicissitudes of the Italian Opera House; Palmo's attempt at 'democratic' opera--The beginnings of 'social' opera: the Academy of Music, German opera, Maretzek to Strakosch--The early years of the Metropolitan--The Grau régime--Conried; Hammerstein; Gatti-Casazza; Opera in English--The Century Opera Company.

VII. OPERA IN THE UNITED STATES. PART II 158

San Francisco's operatic experiences--New Orleans and its opera house--Philadelphia; influence of New Orleans, New York, etc.; The Academy of Music--Chicago's early operatic history; the Chicago-Philadelphia company; Boston--Comic opera in New York and elsewhere.

VIII. INSTRUMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES 181

The New York Philharmonic Society and other New York orchestras--Orchestral organizations in Boston--The Theodore Thomas orchestra of Chicago--Orchestral music in Cincinnati--The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra--Orchestral music in the West; the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra--Chamber music ensembles--Visiting orchestras.

IX. CHORAL ORGANIZATIONS AND MUSIC FESTIVALS 206

The Handel and Haydn and other Boston societies--Choral organizations in New York, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere--Cincinnati, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Chicago and the Far West--Music festivals.

X. MUSICAL EDUCATION IN AMERICA 230

Early singing teachers and schools--Music societies in colleges--Introduction of music into the public schools--Juvenile music--Conservatories--Musical courses in colleges and universities--Community music--Present state of public school music--Municipal music.

XI. THE FOLK-ELEMENT IN AMERICAN MUSIC 277

Nationalism in music--Sources of American folk-song; classification of folk-songs--General characteristics of the negro folk-song--The negro folk-song and its makers--Other American folk-songs--The negro minstrel tunes; Stephen Foster, etc.--Patriotic and national songs.

XII. THE CLASSIC PERIOD OF AMERICAN COMPOSITION 331

Pioneers in American Composition: Fry, Emery, Gottschalk--The Boston group of 'classicists': Chadwick, Foote, Parker, and others--Other exponents of the 'Classical': William Mason, Dudley Buck, Arthur Whiting, and others--The lyricists: Ethelbert Nevin; American song-writers--Composers of church music.

XIII. ROMANTICISTS AND NEO-CLASSICISTS 360

Influences and conditions of the period--Edward MacDowell--Edgar Stillman-Kelley--Arne Oldberg; Henry Hadley; F. S. Converse--E. R. Kroeger; Rubin Goldmark; Howard Brockway; Homer N. Bartlett--Daniel Gregory Mason; David Stanley Smith; Edward Burlingame Hill--The younger men: Philip Greeley Clapp; Arthur Bergh; Joseph Henius; Carl Busch--The San Francisco Group; Miscellany--Women Composers.

XIV. NATIONALISTS, ECLECTICS AND ULTRA-MODERNS 407

The new spirit and its various manifestations--Henry F. Gilbert, Arthur Farwell, Harvey W. Loomis--Frederic Ayres, Arthur Shepherd, Noble Kreider, Benjamin Lambord--Campbell-Tipton; Arthur Nevin; C. W. Cadman; J. A. Carpenter; T. C. Whitmer--W. H. Humiston, John Powell, Blair Fairchild, Maurice Arnold--Sidney Homer; Clough-Leighter and others--Charles M. Loeffler and other Americans of foreign birth or residence.

XV. THE LIGHTER VEIN 451

Sources of American popular music--Its past and present phases--American comic opera: Reginald de Koven; Victor Herbert; John Philip Sousa; other writers of light opera--The decline of light opera and the present state of theatrical music.

CHAPTER I OUR ENGLISH INHERITANCE

The foundation of American musical culture--State of English musical culture in the seventeenth century--The Virginia colonists--The Puritans in England and in America; New England psalmody.