The American composer speaks : a historical anthology, 1770-1965.
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[Baton Rouge] :
Louisiana State University Press,
©1966.
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Table of 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.