Category: History - American
The following pages represent an attempt to account for the tremendous musical development of the United States during the past thirty-five years--roughly speaking, the years since the end of World War I. We can safely characterize this development as “tremendous,” even withou...
The following pages represent an attempt to account for the tremendous musical development of the United States during the past thirty-five years--roughly speaking, the years si...
2. Part 2During the nineteenth century the United States seems to have received its real musical education. In 1825 Mozart’s librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte, at that time professor of Itali...
3. Part 3The principal problem remains, however. The business dynamism which affects so much of our music life constantly perpetuates itself, and, as can be observed in matters remote fr...
4. Part 4The achievement of a genuine “national style” in any sphere whatever depends on something deeper than evocation, nostalgic or otherwise; and if what one seeks is timeliness, mac...
5. Part 5We have repeatedly referred to the characteristic fluidity of culture in the United States, to the fact that it is in a constant state of rapid development and under the lash of...
6. Part 6More ambitious and possibly more interesting was the effort of Roy Harris to achieve a style that could be called “national” in a less external sense. His point of departure was...
7. Part 7The “great line of western tradition” provides the most fertile source of nourishment also for American music. This is now being recognized almost universally throughout the Uni...