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Music of the highest class : elitism and populism in antebellum Boston /

"There is a fundamental duality in American musical culture between classical music and vernacular music: the classical canon of great musical works seems to be surrounded by an aura of respectability that gives it a special mystique. In this book Michael Broyles examines this duality from a so...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Broyles, Michael, 1939-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1992.
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Table des matières:
  • Ch. 1. Boston's Place in the American Musical World
  • Ch. 2. Sacred-Music Reforms in Colonial and Federal America
  • Ch. 3. Lowell Mason: Hymnodic Reformer
  • Ch. 4. Class and Concert Life in Early Nineteenth-Century Boston
  • Ch. 5. Private Music Making and Amateur Musical Organizations
  • Ch. 6. Crisis in Secular Concert Activity: Disputes and Divergences
  • Ch. 7. Samuel Eliot and the Boston Academy of Music
  • Ch. 8. Romanticism and Transcendentalism
  • Ch. 9. Developments of the 1840s: Retraction
  • Ch. 10. Bands, Opera, Virtuosi, and the Changing of the Guard
  • Ch. 11. Boston and Beyond
  • Appendix 1: Instrumental Musicians in Boston, 1796-1842
  • Appendix 2: Individual List of Instrumental Musicians in Boston, 1796-1842.