An Introduction to America’s Music

CHAPTER 7 | THE RISE OF TIN PAN ALLEY 179 CD 1.24 Listening Guide 7.3 “After the Ball” CHARLES K. HARRIS date: 1892 performer: G ...

180 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I throughout its sixty-four-bar length, yielding to a catchier, faster-moving ...

CHAPTER 7 | POPULAR SONGS AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY 181 glamour—Tin Pan Alley’s ultimate goal remained the same as that of publ ...

182 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I pity,” were popular. In these numbers, “dishonor was always presented as the ...

183 B y the late 1800s, musical institutions in the United States—professional orchestras, music conservatories, college music d ...

184 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I Thomas found his audiences by blending idealism with prag- matism. Three rel ...

CHAPTER 8 | THE SECOND NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL 185 be supplied by Thomas himself. Thomas is said to have replied: “I would go to hell ...

186 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I Of that group gathered at the Tavern Club, Chadwick stands out today as the ...

CHAPTER 8 | THE SECOND NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL 187 tunes” and fancied that the work was set in an American farmhouse. A lively pentat ...

188 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I United States, she established a new home base in Hillsborough, New Hampshir ...

CHAPTER 8 | THE SECOND NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL 189 composer A ntonín Dvorˇák, who during a three-year stay in the United States couns ...

190 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I date: 1896 performers: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Karl Krueger, conductor ...

CHAPTER 8 | EDWARD MACDOWELL 191 Listen & Refl ect How does Beach use melody, harmony, rhythm, and orchestration to emphasi ...

192 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I Europe, the twenty-seven-year-old MacDowell and his wife moved to Boston, wh ...

CHAPTER 8 | EDWARD MACDOWELL 193 MACDOWELL AND MUSICAL NATIONALISM Not long after his return from Germany, MacDowell found himse ...

194 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I piece like “To a Wild Rose” seems indisputable; and from still another, both ...

CHAPTER 8 | EDWARD MACDOWELL 195 MacDowell’s suite contains fi ve movements—“Legend,” “Love Song,” “In War- time,” “Dirge,” and ...

196 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I deference to European thought and prejudice has imposed upon us. Masquer- ad ...

CHAPTER 8 | CHARLES IVES 197 teaching methods could also be unconventional. On the one hand, “Father knew (and fi lled me up wit ...

198 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I river, and heard the distant singing from the church across the river. The m ...