Music Melting Round A History of Music in the United States

by Borroff, Edith

• ISBN13: 9780810846746
• ISBN10: 0810846748
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781461716808
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-18
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
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Summary

Now in Paperback! Music Melting Round: A History of Music in the United States provides a colorful introduction for students and nonspecialists alike to the scope of musical styles and venues in America from colonial to contemporary times. Covering all aspects of music, including classical, ragtime, blues, jazz, popular, minstrel shows, and music on radio and television and in film, the text also contains a variety of photographs and illustrations, three time lines presenting highlights in American history, the arts, and music, an appendix of basic musical concepts, a glossary, and two indexes. Cloth edition 1-880157-17-9 previously published in 1995 by Ardsley House.

Author Biography

Borroff, Edith (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is a prominent musicologist and composer. She has taught at several universities and was professor of music at the State University of New York (Binghamton) for almost twenty years

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xxi
Early Music in America (to 1783)	p. 1
Spanish Conquests	p. 3
British Conquests	p. 5
The Settlers	p. 8
City Music	p. 8
Country Music	p. 9
Music Education	p. 10
Music in the Home	p. 12
Professional Musicians	p. 12
Military Music	p. 14
The Singing Schools	p. 14
Early Composers	p. 17
The Slaves	p. 18
Music of the Slaves	p. 18
Franklin and Jefferson	p. 20
African Culture	p. 21
African Instruments	p. 22
African Song	p. 25
Music During the Revolutionary War	p. 26
Notes	p. 29
Bibliography	p. 29
An Energetic New Nation (1783 to 1840)	p. 31
Music on the Frontier	p. 36
Frontier Instruments	p. 36
Vocal Music	p. 38
The Romantic Tradition	p. 40
Music in Town	p. 40
Musicales	p. 41
Social Dances	p. 42
Church Services	p. 42
Concerts	p. 43
Musical Theater	p. 43
English Operas	p. 44
American Composers	p. 44
Alexander Reinagle	p. 45
Benjamin Carr	p. 45
James Hewitt	p. 46
Anthony Philip Heinrich	p. 46
The Teaching of Music	p. 47
William Robyn	p. 47
Lowell Mason	p. 48
Bands	p. 49
Military Bands	p. 50
Frank Johnson	p. 52
Notes	p. 54
Bibliography	p. 54
A Nation Struggling for Maturity (1840 to 1880)	p. 55
Music on the Frontier	p. 60
Cowboy Songs	p. 60
Canal, Railroad, and Mining Songs	p. 61
Fiddle Tunes	p. 62
Songs of the Territories	p. 62
Urban Music	p. 63
Elocution	p. 67
Ballads and Story Songs	p. 68
Duet Singing	p. 68
Group Concerts	p. 68
The Minstrel Show	p. 70
Form	p. 72
Stephen Foster	p. 73
Later Developments	p. 75
Music of the African-Americans	p. 77
The Cakewalk	p. 79
Shouts	p. 80
Spirituals	p. 80
Music of the Native Americans	p. 81
Women and Music	p. 83
Augusta Browne	p. 85
Caroline Norton	p. 85
Suzan Parkhurst	p. 85
Teresa Carreno	p. 86
Notes	p. 86
Biblography	p. 87
A Nation Coming of Age (1880 to 1923)	p. 89
International Music	p. 94
Louis-Moreau Gottschalk	p. 96
John Knowles Paine	p. 97
George Whitefield Chadwick	p. 97
Edward Macdowell	p. 98
Horatio Parker	p. 99
Amy Marcy Cheney	p. 99
Other Composers	p. 100
Apprenticeship Composers	p. 101
John Philip Sousa	p. 101
Alfred G. Robyn	p. 102
Charles Ives	p. 103
R. Nathaniel Dett	p. 104
Marie Bergersen	p. 104
Concert Life	p. 105
The Orchestra	p. 105
The Piano	p. 106
The Operatic Voice	p. 108
European Influences	p. 109
Women	p. 109
Opera	p. 110
"Indian Operas"	p. 113
Band Music	p. 114
Patrick Gilmore	p. 114
Gilmore's Successors	p. 115
The National Centennial	p. 116
Notes	p. 117
Bibliography	p. 117
Other Venues (1880 to 1923)	p. 119
The Living Room	p. 122
The Theater	p. 123
Songs	p. 126
Songs of the Late Nineteenth Century	p. 127
Harry Von Tilzer	p. 130
Songs of the Early Twentieth Century	p. 132
Shows	p. 133
Gus Edwards	p. 133
George M. Cohan	p. 134
The Follies and Scandals	p. 134
Victor Herbert	p. 135
Ragtime	p. 135
W. C. Handy	p. 136
Scott Joplin	p. 137
The Dance Craze	p. 138
Ragtime Bands	p. 140
Vocal Art	p. 141
The Blues	p. 142
Scat Singing	p. 143
Jazz	p. 144
Religious Music	p. 146
Lowell Mason	p. 147
Apprenticeship Hymn Composers	p. 148
Other Composers of Religious Music	p. 149
Spirituals	p. 150
Henry T. Burleigh	p. 151
The End of an Era	p. 152
Notes	p. 153
Bibliography	p. 154
The Business and Dissemination of Music	p. 155
Instrument Manufacture	p. 156
The Piano	p. 156
String Instruments	p. 159
Band Instruments	p. 160
Percussion Instruments	p. 160
Apprenticeship Instruments	p. 161
The Organ	p. 162
Chicago	p. 163
Music Publishing	p. 166
Education in Music	p. 167
The Apprenticeship System	p. 169
Children's Music	p. 170
Mason's Influence	p. 171
Vocal Music	p. 171
School Bands	p. 173
Music Appreciation	p. 174
Colleges	p. 175
Oscar Sonneck	p. 176
Musicology	p. 176
Notes	p. 177
Bibliography	p. 178
Boom, Depression, and War (1923 to 1961)	p. 179
The Literature of the Period	p. 184
The European Tradition in Music	p. 186
University Composers	p. 186
Walter Piston	p. 187
Roger Sessions	p. 187
Aaron Copland	p. 187
William Schuman	p. 189
Samuel Barber	p. 189
The German Hegemony	p. 190
Europeans in the United States	p. 191
Edgar Varese	p. 191
Arnold Schonberg	p. 191
Paul Hindemith	p. 192
Bela Bartok	p. 192
Darius Milhaud	p. 192
Igor Stravinsky	p. 192
The Germanic Position	p. 192
The Iconoclasts	p. 193
Henry Cowell	p. 193
Harry Partch	p. 194
John Cage	p. 194
The Iconoclastic Position	p. 196
The End of Apprenticeship in the Concert Tradition	p. 196
David Guion	p. 196
Irwin Fischer	p. 197
Radie Britain	p. 198
Abram Chasins	p. 198
William Grant Still	p. 200
Ruth Crawford	p. 200
The Two Camps	p. 201
Concert Life	p. 202
Band Concerts	p. 203
Pops Concerts	p. 204
Opera	p. 206
Notes	p. 209
Bibliography	p. 209
Other Venues (1923 to 1961)	p. 211
The Musical	p. 214
Jerome Kern	p. 216
Irving Berlin	p. 217
Cole Porter	p. 218
George Gershwin	p. 219
Richard Rodgers	p. 222
Character Songs	p. 223
Influences from the Past	p. 223
America as World Leader	p. 224
Early Jazz and Blues	p. 225
The Roaring Twenties	p. 226
Blues Songs	p. 227
Basic Jazz	p. 229
Jazz Techniques	p. 229
Jazz and Popular Music	p. 230
European Attitudes	p. 233
Swing and the Big Bands	p. 233
Post-World War II Jazz	p. 239
Charlie Parker	p. 241
Bebop	p. 243
Coleman Hawkins	p. 244
Radio	p. 245
The Depression Years	p. 246
Radio Music	p. 248
Sound Effects	p. 248
The Movies	p. 250
Silent Movies	p. 250
Sound Tracks	p. 252
Film Scores	p. 252
Max Steiner	p. 253
Erich Wolfgang Korngold	p. 254
Dimitri Tiomkin	p. 256
Melodramas and Musicals	p. 257
Notes	p. 259
Bibliography	p. 259
The Electronic Age	p. 261
The Player Piano	p. 262
Exotic Instruments and Early Instruments	p. 262
Recordings	p. 265
Disc Recordings	p. 265
Tapes and Compact Disks	p. 265
Television	p. 266
Synthesizers and Computers	p. 267
Synthesizers	p. 267
Computers	p. 268
Music and the Computer	p. 272
Synthesizing Instruments	p. 273
Notes	p. 274
Bibliography	p. 274
Reaching into the Future (1961 to 1993)	p. 275
The University Tradition	p. 281
Postwar Arts	p. 281
Postwar Music	p. 282
Ross Lee Finney	p. 283
Elliott Carter	p. 284
Milton Babbitt	p. 286
George Crumb	p. 286
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich	p. 288
Tania Leon	p. 289
Avante-Garde Thinking	p. 289
The New Music	p. 290
Music of Other Cultures and of the Past	p. 290
Popular Music of the Past	p. 292
Composition Techniques	p. 293
Concepts of Time, Space, and Sound	p. 293
A New Consolidation	p. 294
Opera	p. 295
Robert Ward	p. 295
Carlisle Floyd	p. 296
T. J. Anderson	p. 297
Terry Riley	p. 298
Philip Glass	p. 298
John Adams	p. 299
Virgil Thomson	p. 300
Women Composers	p. 300
Into the Nineties	p. 300
Notes	p. 302
Bibliography	p. 302
Other Venues (1961 to 1993)	p. 303
Developments in Jazz	p. 304
Ellington, Armstrong, and Gillespie	p. 304
The Marsalis Brothers	p. 306
Rock	p. 307
Chuck Berry	p. 307
Elvis Presley	p. 309
Discotheques	p. 310
Early Rock Groups	p. 310
Synthesis	p. 311
Bob Dylan	p. 311
Michael Jackson	p. 313
The 1990s	p. 314
Television	p. 314
Theme Music	p. 314
Melodramas and Variety Shows	p. 315
Liberace and Lawrence Welk	p. 315
Carol Burnett	p. 316
The End of Variety Shows	p. 317
Musical Theater	p. 318
Operatic Traditions	p. 318
Stephen Sondheim	p. 319
The British Invasion	p. 320
The Movies	p. 320
Musicals	p. 322
Film Scores	p. 322
Alex North	p. 324
Elmer Bernstein	p. 325
Henry Mancini	p. 325
Burt Bacharach	p. 327
John Williams	p. 327
The Maturing of Film Scores	p. 328
A Mixture of Traditions	p. 329
Conlon Nancarrow	p. 331
Leonard Bernstein	p. 331
Dave Brubeck	p. 332
Gunther Schuller	p. 333
Wendy Carlos	p. 334
Notes	p. 335
Bibliography	p. 336
A Musical Nation	p. 337
The Nineteenth Century	p. 339
The Twentieth Century	p. 341
Religious Music	p. 342
Instrument Sales	p. 343
Notes	p. 344
Bibliography	p. 344
Basic Musical Concepts	p. 345
Time	p. 345
Sound	p. 347
Fabric	p. 348
Glossary	p. 351
Index	p. 367
Index of Titles	p. 379
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