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Orchestrating the Nation - The Nineteenth-Century American Symphonic Enterprise (Hardcover)
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Orchestrating the Nation - The Nineteenth-Century American Symphonic Enterprise (Hardcover)
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During the nineteenth century, nearly one hundred symphonies were
written by over fifty composers living in the United States. With
few exceptions, this repertoire is virtually forgotten today. In
Orchestrating the Nation: The Nineteenth-Century American Symphonic
Enterprise, author Douglas W. Shadle explores the stunning
stylistic diversity of this substantial repertoire and uncovers why
it failed to enter the musical mainstream. Throughout the century,
Americans longed for a distinct national musical identity. As the
most prestigious of all instrumental genres, the symphony proved to
be a potent vehicle in this project as composers found inspiration
for their works in a dazzling array of subjects, including Niagara
Falls, Hiawatha, and Western pioneers. With a wealth of musical
sources at his disposal, including never-before-examined
manuscripts, Shadle reveals how each component of the symphonic
enterprise-from its composition, to its performance, to its
immediate and continued reception by listeners and
critics-contributed to competing visions of American identity.
Employing an innovative transnational historical framework,
Shadle's narrative covers three continents and shows how the music
of major European figures such as Beethoven, Schumann, Wagner,
Liszt, Brahms, and Dvorak exerted significant influence over
dialogues about the future of American musical culture. Shadle
demonstrates that the perceived authority of these figures allowed
snobby conductors, capricious critics, and even orchestral
musicians themselves to thwart the efforts of American symphonists
despite widespread public support of their music. Consequently,
these works never entered the performing canons of American
orchestras. An engagingly written account of a largely unknown
repertoire, Orchestrating the Nation shows how artistic and
ideological debates from the nineteenth century continue to shape
the culture of American orchestral music today.
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