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Mainstream Music of Early Twentieth Century America - The Composers, Their Times, and Their Works (Hardcover, New)
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Mainstream Music of Early Twentieth Century America - The Composers, Their Times, and Their Works (Hardcover, New)
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Chronologically following Nicholas Tawa's The Coming of Age of
American Art Music, this new study stands on its own in examining
the music of the most prominent American composers active in the
first three decades of the twentieth century. Among them are Edgar
Stillman Kelley, Frederick Shepherd Converse, Daniel Gregory Mason,
Edgar Burlingame Hill, Mabel Daniels, Henry Hadley, Deems Taylor,
Charles Wakefield Cadman, Henry Gilbert, Arthur Farwell, John
Powell, Arthur Shepherd, Scott Joplin, Charles Tomlinson Griffes,
Marion Bauer, and John Alden Carpenter. Unjustly neglected by a
later generation of critics interested in the avant-garde, this
music deserves a hearing today and, in fact, increasingly is the
subject of new recordings. Professor Tawa puts his exemplary
research and analytical skills to work to determine what these
composers accomplished, not what latter-day critics felt they
should have accomplished. The attitudes, styles, and compositions
are analyzed in cultural context. The period of 1900-1930 witnessed
an intense debate on what constituted an American identity in
music. Was it Anglo-Celtic, Amerindian, African-American, jazz, or
the individual unconsciously expressing the American society he or
she lived in? The changing world of music, the clash of beliefs and
values, and the attempts at a musical reconciliation between old
and new approaches to composition figure prominently in the
discussion. Tawa concludes that if the present-day listener does
not reject romantic music out of hand, he or she will find delight
in much of this large body of skillful, meaningful compositions.
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