Contemporary American Composers

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Author

Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956

Title

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions

Credits

Produced by David Newman, Jeffrey Johnson, Suzanne Lybarger, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

ML: Music: Literature of music

Subject

Music -- United States -- History and criticism

Category

Text

eBook-No.

23800

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23800

Release Date

December 10, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Contemporary American Composers
2. 2.By Rupert Hughes, M.A. — ILLUSTRATED — TO
3. 3.James Huneker — MUSICIAN TO THE TIP OF HIS PEN
4. 4.FOREWORD.
5. 5.CONTENTS.
6. 6.LIST OF MUSIC.
7. 7.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. — CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN COMPOSERS.
8. 8.CHAPTER I. — A GENERAL SURVEY.
9. 9.CHAPTER II. — THE INNOVATORS. — Edward Alexander MacDowell.
10. 10.CLAIR DE LUNE. — Edgar Stillman Kelley. — Harvey Worthington Loomis. — Ethelbert Nevin. — John Philip Sousa. — Henry Schoenefeld. — Maurice Arnold. — N. Clifford Page.
11. 11.CHAPTER III. — THE ACADEMICS. — John Knowles Paine. — Dudley Buck. — Horatio W. Parker. — Frank van der Stucken. — W.W. Gilchrist.
12. 12.A LOVE SONG. — G.W. Chadwick. — To Mrs. G.H. Stoddard. — TWO FOLK SONGS.
13. 13.I — Arthur Foote.
14. 14.IT WAS A LOVER AND HIS LASS. — S.G. Pratt. — Henry K. Hadley. — Adolph M. Foerster. — Charles Crozat Converse. — L.A. Coerne.
15. 15.CHAPTER IV. — THE COLONISTS. — The New York Colony.
16. 16.Idylle.
17. 17.Spring. — Words by Alfred Tennyson.
18. 18.When Love is gone. — (Soprano, or Tenor.)
19. 19.Song from Omar Khayyám. — The Boston Colony.
20. 20.HYMN OF PAN.
21. 21.Peace. — The Chicago Colony.
22. 22.Montezuma, Act III, Introduction
23. 23.IDYLLE. — The Cleveland Colony.
24. 24.Arabesque . — The St. Louis Colony.
25. 25.III.
26. 26.CHAPTER V. — THE WOMEN COMPOSERS.
27. 27.PHANTOMS.
28. 28.GHOSTS. — Words by Munkittrick.
29. 29.CHAPTER VI. — THE FOREIGN COMPOSERS.
30. 30.POSTLUDE.
31. 31.INDEX.

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