Music and musicians in early America

Book

Music and musicians in early America / Irving Lowens.

Lowens, Irving, 1916-1983 (Author).

Summary:

Aspects of the history of music in early America and the history of early American music.

Record details

ISBN: 0393097439
ISBN: 9780393097436
Physical Description: 328 pages : facsimiles, music ; 22 cm
Edition: [1st ed.].
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, ©1964.

Content descriptions

General Note:: "A check-list of writings about music in the periodicals of American transcendentalism (1835-50)": pages 311-321.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Music in the American wilderness -- The Bay Psalm Book in 17th-century New England -- John Tufts's "Introduction to the singing of Psalm-tunes" (1721-44) : the first American music textbook -- Andrew Law and the pirates -- Benjamin Carr's "Federal overture" (1794) -- "The easy instructor" (1798-1831) : a history and bibliography of the first shape-note tune-book -- John Wyeth's "Repository of sacred music, part second" (1813) : a northern precursor of southern folk-hymnody -- Daniel Read's world : the letters of an early American composer -- The musical Edsons of Shady : early American tunesmiths -- James Hewitt : professional musician -- The triumph of Anthony Philip Heinrich -- William Henry Fry : American nationalist -- Our first matinee idol : Louis Moreau Gottschalk -- The origins of the American fuging-tune -- Music and American transcendentalism (1835-50) -- American democracy and American music (1830-1914) -- The Warrington collection : a research adventure at Case Memorial Library -- The American tradition of church song -- Appendix A : The complete text of John Tufts's "Short introduction to the singing of Psalm-tunes" (1726) -- Appendix B : "The easy instructor" (1801-1831) : a check-list of editions and issues -- Appendix C : A check-list of writings about music in the periodicals of American transcendentalism (1835-50).