pt. 1. Music before 1830 -- "Preface" to The
... grounds and rules of musick explained / thomas Walter -- Instructions on the voice from the Turtel taube / Conrad Beissel -- "On vocal music" from the Massachusetts Gazette ; "Thoughts on music" from The New England Psalm Singer ; "Lessons" from The singing master's assistant / William Billings -- "Conclusion" to The harmony of Maine / Supply Belcher -- "General directions for the performance of sacred music" from Music of the church / Anonymous -- pt. 2. Music from 1830-1920 -- "Introduction" to Nursery songs / Thomas Hastings -- "Rules for the preservation of the voice" from The american Music Review / Lowell Mason -- Review of St. Peter by J. Fiske, The Atlantic monthly / John Knowles Paine -- A review of The Fisk Jubilee and Hampton Singers from Dwight's journal of music / Anonymous -- Review of Mass in E-flat from the Boston Evening Transcript / Amy Beach -- "'How' of creative composition" from Etude / Amy Beach -- "Concluding remarks" from Illustrations in choir accompaniment / Dudley Buck -- Review of Hora novissima from the New York Times / Horatio Parker -- "Musical possibilities in America" from Scribner's / Theodore Thomas -- "Plea for choral singing" from the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters / George Whitefield Chadwick -- pt. 3. Music since 1920 -- "Music and the plain man" from The dilemma of American music / Daniel Gregory Mason -- "Afro-American composer's point of view" from American composers on American music / William Grant Still -- "My sacred service" from Ernest Bloch : creative spirit / Ernest Bloch -- "Choral effectives" from the New York Herald Tribune / Virgil Thomson -- "What church music can be" from Ideals in church music / Leo Sowerby -- Reviews of Mass from the Washington Post by Richard L. Coe and the New York Times by Harold C. Schonberg / Leonard Bernstein -- "Notes on sacred music" from AGO Music Magazine / Ned Rorem -- Interview from The choral journal / William Schuman -- Interview from The choral journal / Vincent Persichetti -- Review of When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd from The New Yorker by Andrew Porter / Roger Sessions -- "Writing for the amateur chorus" from American choral review / Randall Thompson -- Interview from The black perspective in musics / Undine Smith Moore -- Interview from The choral journal / Kirke Mechem. Read More
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