Contemporary American Composers / Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present / Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and / Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an / Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and / Compositions

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By Rupert Hughes, M.A.

James Huneker MUSICIAN TO THE TIP OF HIS PEN

FOREWORD.

CONTENTS.

LIST OF MUSIC.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHAPTER I. A GENERAL SURVEY.

CHAPTER II. THE INNOVATORS. Edward Alexander MacDowell.

CLAIR DE LUNE.

CHAPTER III. THE ACADEMICS. John Knowles Paine.

A LOVE SONG.

I

IT WAS A LOVER AND HIS LASS.

CHAPTER IV. THE COLONISTS.

Idylle.

Spring. Words by Alfred Tennyson.

When Love is gone. (Soprano, or Tenor.)

Song from Omar KhayyAm.

HYMN OF PAN.

Peace.

Montezuma, Act III, Introduction

IDYLLE. (2)

Arabesque .

III.

CHAPTER V. THE WOMEN COMPOSERS.

PHANTOMS.

GHOSTS. Words by Munkittrick.

CHAPTER VI. THE FOREIGN COMPOSERS.

POSTLUDE.

INDEX.

Transcriber's Notes

Printer errors have been corrected.

Full-page illustrations have been moved so as not to interrupt the flow of the text; some page numbers are skipped as a result.

Midi files have been provided for all music illustrations except autographs and the handwritten manuscript score of SalammbÔ. Click on the [Listen] link to hear the music. Lyrics within the music illustrations have been transcribed and placed below the notation image.


Contemporary
American Composers


BEING A STUDY OF THE MUSIC OF THIS COUNTRY, ITS PRESENT CONDITIONS AND ITS FUTURE, WITH CRITICAL ESTIMATES AND BIOGRAPHIES OF THE PRINCIPAL LIVING COMPOSERS; AND AN ABUNDANCE OF PORTRAITS, FAC-SIMILE MUSICAL AUTOGRAPHS, AND COMPOSITIONS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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