Western Borrowings

Sources for an American Music

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61. Antonin Dvorak and the Development of National Music

74. Arthur Farwell and Music for a Democracy, 321 

Arthur Farwell, from “Pioneering for American Music” (1935), 322-33 

Antonin Dvorak, from “Real Value of Negro Melodies” (1893), 260; 

Antonin Dvorak, from “An Interesting Talk about ‘From the New World’ Symphony” (1893), 261; 

Antonin Dvorak, from “Music in America” (1895), 262 

Kara Anne Gardner. “Edward MacDowell, Antimodernism, and ‘Playing Indian’ in the Indian Suite.” The Musical Quarterly 87:3 (Fall 2004), 370-422.

Copland - Class Notes

Biography, WebPage

Alan Howard Levy. Musical Nationalism: American Composers' Search for Identity. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983, 116-25.

Paul Fritz Laubenstein. “Jazz—Debit and Credit.” Musical Quarterly 15:4 (October 1929), 606-24.

Mary Herron DuPree. “’Jazz,” the Critics, and American Art Music in the 1920s.” American Music 4:3 (Autumn 1986), 287-301.

Hugo Cole. “Popular Elements in Copland’s Music.” Tempo New Series Nr. 95 (Winter 1970-71), 4-10.

MUSIC::  Aaron Copland (1900-1990, American), Billy the Kid, Scene 1:  Street in a Frontier Town, 1938