Front cover image for America's musical landscape

America's musical landscape

Jean Ferris
Print Book, English, ©1993
Brown & Benchmark, Madison, Wis., ©1993
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxi, 324 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
9780697125163, 9780697169464, 0697125165, 0697169464
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The elements of musical sound
Preparation for an American music. North American Indian music
European precursors of American music
At the time of the settlers
The eighteenth century. The age of classicism
Pioneer American composers
The broadening music experience
The young republic. Romanticism in America
The move to reform music
Of, by, and for the people
The Civil War era. Songs of the North and South
The romantic virtuosos
Seeds of nationalism
American music comes of age. American concert music matures
The growth of vernacular traditions
Reactions to German romanticism
Musical theater. Precursors of the Broadway musical
The Broadway musical
Twentieth-century American opera
Revolution and evolution. Toward the future
A new world of musical sound
The American mainstream
Jazz. The birth of a new vernacular
Big bands and bebop
Jazz as concert music
Other vernacular musics. Country music
Rock and roll
The many moods of rock
Some new sounds of music