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Source readings in American choral music

David P. DeVenney
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE (page xi)
  • A CHRONOLOGY OF AMERICAN CHORAL MUSIC (page 1)
  • PART I: MUSIC BEFORE 1830 (page 11)
    • Introduction (page 13)
    • Thomas Walter, "Preface" to The Grounds and Rules of Musick Explained (page 15)
    • Conrad Beissel, Instructions on the Voice from the Turtel Taube (page 20)
    • William Billings, "On Vocal Music" from the Massachusetts Gazette (page 23)
    • Supply Belcher, "Conclusion" to The Harmony of Maine (page 34)
    • Anonymous, "General Directions for the Performance of Sacred Music" from Music of the Church (page 36)
  • Part II: Music From 1830-1920 (page 45)
    • Introduction (page 47)
    • Thomas Hastings, "Introduction" to Nursery Songs (page 49)
    • Lowell Mason, "Rules for the Preservation of the Voice" from The American Music Review (page 52)
    • John Knowles Paine, a review of St. Peter by J. Fiske, The Atlantic Monthly (page 55)
    • Anonymous, a review of The Fisk Jubilee and Hampton Singers from Dwight's Journal of Music (page 64)
    • Amy Beach, a review of Mass in E-flat from the Boston Evening Transcript (page 74)
    • Amy Beach, "The 'How' of Creative Composition" from Etude (page 77)
    • Dudley Buck, "Concluding Remarks" from Illustrations in Choir Accompaniment (page 80)
    • Horatio Parker, a review of Hora novissima from the New York Times (page 84)
    • Theodore Thomas, "Musical Possibilities in America" from Scribner's (page 87)
    • George Whitefield Chadwick, "A Plea for Choral Singing" from the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (page 94)
  • PART III: MUSIC SINCE 1920 (page 101)
    • Introduction (page 103)
    • Daniel Gregory Mason, "Music and the Plain Man" from The Dilemma of American Music (page 105)
    • William Grant Still, "An Afro-American Composer's Point of View" from American Composers on American Music (page 112)
    • Ernest Bloch, "My Sacred Service" from Ernest Bloch: Creative Spirit (page 114)
    • Virgil Thomson, "Choral Effectives" from the New York Herald Tribune (page 122)
    • Leo Sowerby, "What Church Music Can Be" from Ideals in Church Music (page 126)
    • Leonard Bernstein, reviews of Mass from the Washington Post by Richard L. Coe, and the New York Times by Harold C. Schonberg (page 132)
    • Ned Rorem, "Notes on Sacred Music" from AGO Music Magazine (page 138)
    • William Schuman, an interview from The Choral Journal (page 144)
    • Vincent Persichetti, an interview from The Choral Journal (page 171)
    • Roger Sessions, a review of When Lilacs Last In the Dooryard Bloom'd from The New Yorker by Andrew Porter (page 182)
    • Randall Thompson, "Writing for the Amateur Chorus" from American Choral Review (page 192)
    • Undine Smith Moore, an interview from The Black Perspective in Music (page 205)
    • Kirke Mechem, an interview from The Choral Journal (page 216)
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR FURTHER STUDY (page 225)
  • INDEX (page 243)
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Published: c1995
Publisher: College Music Society
ISBN(s)
  • 9780965064712 (paper)
  • 9780965064705 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Music & Musicology
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