Orchestrating the Nation
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-935864-9 (ISBN)
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 Dvorák 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.
Douglas W. Shadle is an expert on the culture of classical music in the United States. He holds a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is currently Assistant Professor of Musicology at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music.
Acknowledgments ; About the Companion Website ; Introduction ; 1: The Launch of the Enterprise ; 2: Anthony Philip Heinrich, Hapless Wanderer ; 3: William Henry Fry, Operatic Translator ; 4: George Frederick Bristow, American Stalwart ; 5: The Rivalry of Nations ; 6: The End of an Era ; Interlude: The Country Divided ; 7: Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Pan-American Republican ; 8: John Knowles Paine, Universal Classicist ; 9: The Rivalry of Generations ; 10: Ellsworth Phelps, Brooklyn Patriot ; 11: The Winds of Change ; 12: Antonin Dvorak, Bohemian Prophet ; Epilogue ; Works Cited
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.1.2016 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 236 x 160 mm |
Gewicht | 635 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-935864-8 / 0199358648 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-935864-9 / 9780199358649 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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