An Introduction to America’s Music

119 SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORYSPOTLIGHT ON HISTORY Congregations and Organists L ike oratorio societies, church choirs brought aesthet ...

120 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR two violins, viola, and cello), duo sonatas for violin and piano, and solo ...

CHAPTER 5 | CLASSICAL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC 121 music “an intellectual and social enjoyment” of a high order, the report warned tha ...

122 SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORYSPOTLIGHT ON HISTORY Orchestras on Tour A mong the fi rst European orchestras to tour the United States ...

CHAPTER 5 | LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK: A NEW ORLEANS ORIGINAL 123 LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK: A NEW ORLEANS ORIGINAL In June 1857 New ...

124 SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORYSPOTLIGHT ON HISTORY Anthony Philip Heinrich: America’s Log House Composer A mong the musicians who play ...

CHAPTER 5 | LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK: A NEW ORLEANS ORIGINAL 125 and around the city. He began playing piano at three and was soo ...

126 SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORYSPOTLIGHT ON HISTORY Fry and Bristow Defend American Music W hen Gottschalk arrived in New York in 1853, ...

CHAPTER 5 | LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK: A NEW ORLEANS ORIGINAL 127 the piece’s African American lineage, with its emphasis on rhyth ...

128 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR steady beat and the four-bar phrases carry listeners comfortably ahead. And ...

CHAPTER 5 | LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK: A NEW ORLEANS ORIGINAL 129 “cast in an original mold,” he argued, he could hardly “abdicate ...

130 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR published. With the composer no longer alive to perform it, his music susta ...

CHAPTER 5 | FURTHER LISTENING 131 W hat features of The Banjo are typical of classical music, and which are atypi- cal? General ...

132 I n the early 1850s Samuel Cartwright, a Louisiana physician, wrote an essay on diseases that were said to affl ict black sl ...

CHAPTER 6 | BLACK, WHITES, AND THE MINSTREL STAGE 133 while entertaining audiences with jokes, skits, and music, minstrels also ...

134 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR O its old Suky blue skin, she is in lub wid me I went the udder arter noon ...

SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORYSPOTLIGHT ON HISTORY Ground Rules of Blackface Minstrelsy T he writing of history encourages a mode of objec ...

136 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR Sweeney began learning from slaves in Virginia, probably in the late 1820s; ...

CHAPTER 6 | BLACK, WHITES, AND THE MINSTREL STAGE 137 Dan Emmett, the Virginia Minstrels’ fi ddler, took song writer credit for ...

138 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR timing section text comments 0:00 instrumental introduction After the fi dd ...