The National Music of America - online book

The Sources & Factors that Formed America's Music.

This Illustrated Book Also Includes Some Sheet Music.

By Louis C. Elson, Pub by L. C. Page and Company Boston, Circa 1900

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IN NO DEPARTMENT of musical history has there been more of careless and unverified statement, of unquestioning acceptance of tradition, than in the chronicles of our national music. The author by no means claims to have cleared up the mists which hang over some parts of the subject; he may, however, state that where conflicting tales were told, which could neither be confirmed nor disproved, he has presented both sides of the question without prejudice. The origin of " Yankee Doodle," for example, has not been discovered, but it has been pointed out that many things which have been accepted as ascertained facts have by no means the certainty of history. A slight discursion to show the growth of the national taste in music in America, has been deemed pertinent to the subject. No apology is needed for a full presentation of the music of the Pilgrims and the Puritans, for not only have errors crept into the popular comprehension of this important topic, but this may be regarded as the chief seed whence the early music of our country sprang. Most of the musical illustrations are drawn from early (often original) editions, in the library of the author.

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Front Cover Title Page Copyright Notice PREFACE Preface. CONTENTS Contents Contents Contents LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS HENRY CAREY JOSEPH HOPKINSON John Howard Payne Introductory — The Seeds of Puritan Music — Synopsis of the Evolution of Congregational Singing— Luther and Calvin — The Music of the Roundheads........n - 0111 Page - 0112 Page - 0113 Page - 0114 Page - 0115 Page - 0116 Page - 0117 Page - 0118 Page - 0119 "St. Mary's Tune" (fac-simile) - 0120 Page - 0121 Page - 0122 Page - 0123 Page - 0124 Page - 0125 "Hey, Then, Up We Go" - 0126 Page - 0127 Page - 0128 The Beginning of American Music — Difference between Pilgrims and Puritans — A Popular Error — The Bay Psalm-book — Disputes in the Church about Singing — The " Old Way" versus the "New Way" — Subsequent Psalm and Sacred Collections — Prejudice against the Organ — Establishment of Choirs - 0129 Page - 0130 Page - 0131 Page - 0132 Page - 0133 Page - 0134 Page - 0135 Page - 0136 Page - 0137 Page - 0138 Page - 0139 Page - 0140 Page - 0141 Page - 0142 Page - 0143 Page - 0144 Page - 0145 Page - 0146 Page - 0147 Page - 0148 Page - 0149 Page - 0150 Page - 0151 Page - 0152 Page - 0153 Page - 0154 Page - 0155 Page - 0156 Page - 0157 Page - 0158 Page - 0159 Beginnings of Secular Music in New England — Early Concerts — Strange Programmes — Ecstatic Criticism — Prices of Teaching — Beginning of Native Compositions — William Billings — Oliver Holden — First Musical Typography - 0160 Page - 0161 " Ode to Columbia's Favourite Son " (facsimile) - 0162 Page - 0163 Page - 0164 Page - 0165 Page - 0166 Page - 0167 Page - 0168 Page - 0169 Page - 0170 Page - 0171 Page - 0172 Page - 0173 Page - 0174 Page - 0175 Page - 0176 " Coronation " (fac-simile) - 0177 Page - 0178 Page - 0179 European National Songs — The Voice of Freedom in Foreign Countries — " Lilliburlero " — Scottish War-songs—Koerner's "Song of the Sword" — The Music of the Reign of Terror; " Ca Ira " and "La Carmagnole" —The "Marseillaise" — The English National Anthem and Its American Uses —"My Country,'tis of Thee" - 0180 Page - 0181 Page - 0182 Page - 0183 Page - 0184 Page - 0185 Page - 0186 LlLLIBURLERO - 0187 Page - 0188 Page - 0189 Page - 0190 Page - 0191 Page - 0192 Page - 0193 Page - 0194 Page - 0195 Page - 0196 Page - 0197 "Ca Ira" - 0198 Page - 0199 Page - 0200 Page - 0201 Page - 0202 Page - 0203 La Carmagnole - 0204 Page - 0205 Page - 0206 Page - 0207 Page - 0208 Page - 0209 Page - 0210 Page - 0211 Page - 0212 Page - 0213 Page - 0214 Page - 0215 Page - 0216 Page - 0217 Page - 0218 Page - 0219 Page - 0220 Page - 0221 Page - 0222 Page - 0223 Page - 0224 Page - 0225 Page - 0226 "Yankee Doodle" — Doubtful Etymology of the Words — Difficulty in Tracing the Origin of the Melody — Derisive Use of the Tune during the Revolution — Began and Ended the Revolution— First Appearance as a National Tune in Europe - 0227 Page - 0228 Page - 0229 Page - 0230 Page - 0231 Page - 0232 Page - 0233 Page - 0234 Page - 0235 "Yanky Doodle" - 0236 Page - 0237 Page - 0238 Page - 0239 Page - 0240 Page - 0241 Page - 0242 Page - 0243 Page - 0244 Page - 0245 Colonel Pickering's March to Lexington - 0246 Page - 0247 Page - 0248 Page - 0249 Page - 0250 Page - 0251 Page - 0252 Page - 0253 Page - 0254 " Hail Columbia " — Originally an Instrumental Composition — " The President's March " — Doubts about the Composer - 0255 Page - 0256 Page - 0257 Page - 0258 Page - 0259 Page - 0260 Page - 0261 Page - 0262 Page - 0263 Page - 0264 Page - 0265 "Hail Columbia" (fac-simile) - 0266 Page - 0267 " The Star-spangled Banner " — Its English Origin — Originally a Drinking-song — Doubts Regarding Composer — Its English Uses—A Masonic Ode — Its First American Setting—"Adams and Liberty"—Robert Treat Paine —Its Great Setting by Francis Scott Key — A Doubtful Story Regarding Its First Union with the Music - 0268 Page - 0269 Page - 0270 Page - 0271 "To Anacreon in Heaven" - 0272 Page - 0273 Page - 0274 "Masonic Ode" (fac-simile). - 0275 Page - 0276 Page - 0277 Page - 0278 " Rise Columbia " (fac-simile) - 0279 Page - 0280 Page - 0281 Page - 0282 "Adams and Liberty" (fac-simile) - 0283 Page - 0284 Page - 0285 Page - 0286 Page - 0287 Page - 0288 Page - 0289 Page - 0290 Page - 0291 Page - 0292 Page - 0293 Page - 0294 Page - 0295 Page - 0296 Page - 0297 Page - 0298 Page - 0299 Page - 0300 Page - 0301 Page - 0302 Page - 0303 Page - 0304 Page - 0305 Page - 0306 Sea-songs — Charles Dibdin, the Sailor - poet — Sailor Music of America — " The Constitution and Guerrilre" or "Hull's Victory" — A Song of Samoa—"Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" — Naval Songs of the Civil War - 0307 Page - 0308 Page - 0309 Page - 0310 Page - 0311 Page - 0312 Page - 0313 Page - 0314 Page - 0315 Page - 0316 Page - 0317 Page - 0318 Page - 0319 Page - 0320 Page - 0321 Page - 0322 Page - 0323 "Constitution and Guerriere" - 0324 Page - 0325 Page - 0326 Page - 0327 Page - 0328 Page - 0329 Page - 0330 Page - 0331 Page - 0332 " The Alabama " - 0333 Page - 0334 Page - 0335 Page - 0336 Page - 0337 Page - 0338 Page - 0339 Page - 0340 Songs of the Civil War — Additions to " The Star-spangled Banner" — The Confederate Flag — " Dixie," and Its Northern Origin — Plagiarisms of War Music—War-song Composers of the North—Prize Offered for a National Hymn — "John Brown's Body"—Julia Ward Howe's Verses — Power of Home-music during the War — Prohibition of Tunes - 0341 Page - 0342 Page - 0343 Page - 0344 Page - 0345 Page - 0346 Page - 0347 Page - 0348 Page - 0349 Page - 0350 "Say, Brothers, Will You Meet Us" - 0351 Page - 0352 Page - 0353 Page - 0354 Page - 0355 Page - 0356 Page - 0357 Page - 0358 Page - 0359 Page - 0360 Folk-songs — These Also a Branch of National Music — Character of Nations as Reflected in Their Folk-songs — Characteristics of American Folk-songs — Southern Plantation Music — John Howard Paine and " Home, Sweet Home" — Stephen C. Foster —"Old Folks at Home" — Other American Melodies — Music of American Indians - 0361 Page - 0362 Page - 0363 Page - 0364 Page - 0365 Page - 0366 Page - 0367 Page - 0368 Page - 0369 Page - 0370 Page - 0371 Progress of Choral Music — Lowell Mason — The Handel and Haydn Society—Other American Choral Societies — The Beginnings of Orchestral Music — Gottlieb Graupner — The Academy of Music — The Harvard Musical Association and Its Work — The Germania Orchestra — The Philharmonic Orchestra - 0372 Page - 0373 Page - 0374 Page - 0375 Page - 0376 Page - 0377 Page - 0378 Page - 0379 Page - 0380 Page - 0381 Page - 0382 Page - 0383 Page - 0384 Page - 0385 Page - 0386 Page - 0387 Page - 0388 Page - 0389 Page - 0390 Page - 0391 Page - 0392 Page - 0393 Page - 0394 Page - 0395 Music in New York — The Boston Symphony Orchestra— Other Great American Orchestras — The Chicago Orchestra — The Great Peace Jubilee — Keller's "American Hymn" — Musical Conditions of the Present — The American National Hymn of the Future — Conclusion - 0396 Page - 0397 Page - 0398 Page - 0399 Page - 0400 Page - 0401 Page - 0402 Page - 0403 Page - 0404 Page - 0405 Page - 0406 Page - 0407 Page - 0408 Page - 0409 Page - 0410 Page - 0411 Page - 0412 Page - 0413 Page - 0414 INDEX. - 0415 INDEX. - 0416 INDEX. - 0417 INDEX. - 0418 INDEX. - 0419 INDEX. - 0420 INDEX. - 0421 INDEX. - 0422 INDEX. - 0423 INDEX. - 0424 INDEX. - 0425 INDEX. - 0426

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