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Summary
America's Musical Landscapeaddresses the broad range of music in the United States from early periods to today. This comprehensive yet accessible text offers an elegant and readable introduction to the fundamentals of music, assuming no prior music experience for the student. Frequent connections to other arts, particularly the visual arts, add to the book's appeal and enhance understanding of core musical concepts. The sixth edition emphasizes vernacular over classical music and recent examples over early music, while offering generous coverage of the complete American musical landscape.
Table of Contents
Listening Examples
Online Listening Examples
Preface
Introduction
Prelude: Basic Properties of Musical Sound
The Elements of Music
Rhythm
Meter
Melody
Harmony
Timbre
Form
Music Notation
Elements of an American Sound
How to Improve Your Listening Skills
Listening Example 1. trad.: "John Henry"
Terms to Review
Critical Thinking
Part 1. Music in Early North America
The Early Years: Historical and Cultural Perspective
The Beginnings of Music in America
Native Americans
European Emigrants
Puritan Society
The African Experience in Early America
Revolution, in Classical Style
Painting in Eighteenth-Century America
Chapter 1. North American Indian Music
Songs
Texture
Texts
Listening Example 2. Yeibichai Chant Song (excerpt)
Sioux Grass Dance
Listening Example 3. Sioux Grass Dance (excerpt)
Sound Instruments
Contemporary Indian Song
Professional Musicians
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Critical Thinking
Chapter 2. Early Folk Music
Spanish Traditions
Alabados
Corridos
Listening Example 4: Anonymous, "El corrido de Gregorio Cortez"
British Traditions
Folk Ballads
Listening Example 5: Anonymous, "Barbara Allen"
Early American Folk Music
Listening Example 6: Anonymous, "Shenandoah"
African Traditions
Field Hollers
Ring Shouts
Listening Example 7: Field Holler
Listening Example 8: Father's Field Call
Listening Example 9:Jesse Bradley, "Hammer, Ring" (excerpt)
Freedom Songs<4>Musical Instruments
Listening Example 10: "No More Auction Block for Me"
What of African Music Survives Today?
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Critical Thinking
Chapter 3. Religious Music in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal Periods
Music at the Spanish Missions
Psalm Tunes
Psalters
Listening Example 11. Louis Bourgeois, "Old Hundred" (excerpt)
Other Protestant Music
Listening Example 12. Joseph Brackett, Jr., "'Tis the Gift to Be Simple"
German-Speaking Protestant Sects
The Great Awakening
Early Efforts at Musical Reform
The Singing School Movement
William Billings (1746-1800)
Listening Example 13. William Billings, "Chester"
Canons
Listening Example 14. William Billings, "When Jesus Wept"
Fuging Tunes
Listening Example 15. Daniel Read, "Sherburne"
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Critical Thinking
Chapter 4. Secular Music in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal Periods
Music in Everyday Experience
Prestigious Musical Amateurs
Early American Theater
Early Bands
Listening Example 16: Anonymous, "Yankee Doodle" (excerpt)
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Critical Thinking
Part 1 Summary
Part 2. The Tumultuous Nineteenth Century
Romanticism in America: Historical and Cultural Perspective
The Emergence of Characteristically American Art
Independence
The Unknown
Love of Nature
Fusion of the Arts
The Civil War Era
Music
Chapter 5. Religious Music in the Early Nineteenth Century
The Great Revival
Shape-Note Notation
Spiritual Songs
"Amazing Grace"
Black Spirituals
Listening Example 17: James Macdermid. "There'll Be Joy, Joy, Joy" (excerpt)
Listening Example 18: Anonymous, "Amazing Grace"
Listening Example 19: Anonymous, "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" (excerpt)
Spirituals As Concert Music
Singing Conventions
Further Movements to Reform Music
Lowell Mason
Listening Example 20: Lowell Mason, "Nearer, My God, to Thee"
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Critical Thinking
Chapter 6. Popular Music of the Civil War Era
Minstrelsy
Listening Example 21: Daniel Decatur Emmett, "I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land"
James A. Bland (1854-1911)
The Heritage of Minstrelsy
Stephen Foster (1826-1864)
Listening Example 22: Stephen Foster, "I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair"
Listening Example 23: Stephen Foster, "Oh! Susanna"
Patriotic Songs
Listening Example 24: John Stafford Smith, "The Anacreontick Song"
Civil War Songs
Singing Families
Listening Example 25: Anonymous, "Get Off the Track"
Concert Bands
Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore (1829-1892)
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Critical Thinking
Chapter 7. Concert Music
Orchestral Music
Theodore Thomas (1835-1905)
Romantic Virtuosos
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)
Piano Music
Listening Example 26: Louis Moreau Gottschalk, "Le bananier"
Rise of Nationalism in Music
Second New England School
John Knowles Paine (1839-1906)
Listening Example 27: John Knowles Paine, Fuga giocosa, op. 41, no. 3
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944)
Listening Example 28: Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, Symphony in E minor (Gaelic), 2nd movement
Edward MacDowell (1860-1908)
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Critical Thinking
PART 2 Summary
PART 3. The Growth of Vernacular Traditions
Music in the Vernacular: Historical and Cultural Perspective
Vernacular Art and Literature
Vernacular Music
Chapter 8. The Rise of Popular Culture
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)
Marches
Listening Example 29. John Philip Sousa, "The Stars and Stripes Forever"
Ragtime
Scott Joplin (1868-1917)
Listening Example 30. Scott Joplin, "Maple Leaf Rag"
Influence of Ragtime
Tin Pan Alley
The Songs
Barbershop Singing
Listening Example 31. George M. Cohan, "Rose" ("A Ring to the Name of Rose")