One Hundred Years Of Music In America

Author : W. S. B. Mathews
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330286197
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book A Hundred Years of Music in America written by W. S. B. Mathews and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Hundred Years of Music in America: An Account of Musical Effort in America During the Past Century Together With Historical and Biographical Sketches of Important Personalities The present work undertakes three things. First, To give an intelligible and fairly complete account of the persons, organizations and influences which have developed this country to its present point in musical knowledge and taste. Second, To give a good general idea of its present condition, as shown in its leading Musical Societies, its Leaders, Composers, Teachers, Educational Institutions, the enormous extension of the Music Trade, and the manufacture and sale of musical instruments of all kinds. Third, To gather from the results of these two lines of investigation a fair forecast of the future of American music, especially as it regards the likelihood of the creation here of an original school of American Music. No such exhaustive collection of material for the musical history of this country has ever been attempted before. We have availed ourselves of the labors of previous workers in the same field wherever possible, especially of those of Mr. F. O. Jones' American Musicians, Dr. F. L. Ratter's music in America, and certain articles in Mr. John W. Moore's encyclopedia. All of these together, however, were wholly insufficient for our purpose. At immense expense of trouble and patience we have collected from the persons themselves, or their immediate representatives, biographical particulars and professional careers of more than five hundred prominent musicians, composers, teachers and educators. The material thus furnished, some of it with singular reluctance, considering the quality and value of the work proposed to be served by it, we have carefully digested, and added to it whatever seemed necessary from the personal knowledge of the editor. The material so gathered has been digested and put together into the book now in the reader's hands, in a typographical form which every person can estimate for himself. Our portrait gallery is very large. We give no less than two hundred and forty portraits of musicians more or less prominent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.