Music in the United States : a historical introduction /
This book provides a chronological look at American music from colonial times to the end of the 20th century revised and updated to reflect the latest scholarship and critical views. Readers will find a comprehensive treatment of both "serious" and "popular" music in the United S...
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Englewood Cliffs, N.J. :
Prentice-Hall,
©1988.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
| Series: | Prentice-Hall history of music series
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Table of Contents:
- Part one. The colonial and federal eras (to 1820). Sacred music in New England and other colonies. Protestant backgrounds ; Early New England psalmody ; The singing-school movement ; The first New England school of composers ; South of New England
- Secular music in the new world. British-American folk and popular song ; The rise of concerts and opera ; Marches and patriotic songs ; Other songs and opera airs ; Dance music ; Other instrumental music
- Part two. The Romantic century (1820-1920). Cultivated and vernacular traditions, and the impact of romanticism
- The cultivated tradition, 1820-1865. Church music ; Song ; Pianos and piano music ; Orchestras ; Orchestral music ; Opera
- The vernacular tradition, 1820-1920. Spiritual folk songs, revival and gospel hymnody, and black spirituals ; Blackface minstrelsy ; Dances and dance music ; Bands and band music ; Ragtime
- The cultivated tradition, 1865-1920. Institutional foundations ; The second New England school ; Edward MacDowell ; Other currents
- Charles Ives. Ives's life and creative career ; Ives's musical thought ; Ives's music
- Part three. Between World Wars (1920-1945). The 1920s. Reactions to the classic-romantic tradition ; Nadia Boulanger; Aaron Copland ; Edgard Varese ; Henry Cowell and his New Music ; Popular music and musical comedy ; City blues and jazz
- The 1920s and early 1940s. Themes of the period ; Thomson, Harris, and Blitzstein ; In the groves of academe ; Younger composers of the period ; Jazz: swing ; The musical and the pop song
- Part four. Since World War II. The post-war decades: into the 1960s. Twelve-tone composition and related methods; Elliot Carter ; Systematic serial composition; Milton Babbitt ; Electroacoustic music ; Experimental music of chance and indeterminacy; John Cage ; Music as process and action ; Jazz: the emergence of bop ; The revolution in popular music: from pop to rock
- Intersections, interactions, projections: from the 1960s to the mid-1970s. Post-bop jazz and the "third stream" ; The rock era rampant ; The musical ; The new virtuosity ; Collage, mixed media, and music theater ; The new expressionism ; Minimalism
- Our pluralistic post-modern era: since the mid-1970s. Post-minimalism ; The new accessibility ; Conservatism and nostalgia in the popular-music world ; Jazz and rock ; Timbral, tonal, temperamental, and technological outreach.