Vistas of American Music : Essays and Compositions in Honor of William K. Kearns

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Pub. Date: 1999-02-01
Publisher(s): Harmonie Park Pr
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Author Biography

Allen P. Britton is the founding editor of the Journal of Research in Music Education and American Music. He has served as Professor, Associate Dean for graduate studies, and Dean of the School of Music of the University of Michigan Wilma Reid Cipolla is Librarian emerita at the University of Buffalo J. Bunker Clark is Professor emeritus of music history at the University of Kansas Walter Collins was Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the University of Colorado Mary DuPree is Professor of Music at the University of Idaho Hampton School of Music Linda Davenport has taught at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado, and at Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey, Illinois Charles Eakin is a bassist and composer who taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder Robert R. Fink is Professor of Music and Dean emeritus at the University of Colorado College of Music at Boulder John Graziano is Professor of Music at the City College and Graduate Center, City University of New York Deborah Hayes is Professor of Music and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder Daniel C. L. Jones teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder Kate Van Winkle Keller is Executive Director of The Sonneck Society for American Music Dan Kingman is Professor emeritus at the University of California, Sacramento Karl Kroeger is Professor emeritus at the University of Colorado at Boulder Anne Dhu McLucas is Dean and Professor of Music at the University of Oregon Gordon Myers is Professor emeritus at Trenton State College Kay Norton is Associate Professor of Music History at the Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri-Kansas City Nancy Ping-Robbins is currently performing as one-half of a piano duo, the Chekker Ensemble Susan L. Porter was Professor of Music History at the Lima campus of The Ohio State University Brenda M. Romero is on the Musicology faculty at the University of Colorado in Boulder Deane L. Root is Curator of the Center for American Music at the University of Pittsburgh's Stephen Foster Memorial and a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Randall Schinn is now at Arizona State University in Tempe Murl Sickburt is Music and General Reference Librarian at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas Nicholas Tawa is Professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts at Boston Richard Toensing is Professor of composition and Chair of the compositional theory faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder Paul F. Wells is Director of the Center for Popular Music and Associate Professor of Music at Middle Tennessee State University Larry Worster The Metropolitan State College of Denver

Table of Contents

Illustrationsp. ix
Forewordp. xiii
Editor's Notep. xv
William Kearns's Contribution to American Musicp. 1
Doctoral Programs in Music Education: A Personal Reminiscencep. 5
Solioquoy, for Horn Alonep. 17
Hezekiah Cantelo an Eighteenth-Century Dance Collector in British-Occupied New Yorkp. 19
Early American Psalmody and the Core Repertory: A Perspectivep. 39
Practicality, Patriotism, and Piety: Principal Motivators for Maine Tunebook Compilers, 1794-1830p. 63
"Children in the Wood": The Odyssey of an Anglo-American Balladp. 77
Mountain Calls, for French horn and pianop. 97
Musical Theater as a Link between Folk and Popular Traditionsp. 99
Go Tell Aunt Rhody She's Rousseau's Dreamp. 125
Fanfares, for Six French Hornsp. 151
The Piano Works of P. Antony Corri and Arthur Clifton, British-American Composerp. 157
Music Research in Nineteenth-Century Theater: or, The Case of a Burlesquer, a Baker, and a Pantomine Makerp. 179
A Childhood Recollection: "Lunch at the Putnam Camp"p. 195
The Yale Song Books, 1853-1978p. 197
Hermann Lawrence Schreiner, Music Merchant and Tunesmith in the Nineteenth-Century Southp. 221
"Unknown," No. 13 in They Said ..., for voice and piano, from The Art of Belly Cantop. 237
Chadwick and Parker of New England: Composers, Allies, and Friendsp. 239
Early Bands in an Idaho Railroad Town: Pocatello, 1887-1930p. 251
Arthur P. Schmidt: The Publisher and His American Composersp. 267
Abigail Stone, Act I, Scene Onep. 283
Community Theater, Caliban by the Yellow Sands, and Arthur Farwellp. 293
The Musical Quarterly and American Musicp. 309
Musical Emissary in America: Nadia Boulanger, Normand Lockwood, and American Musical Pedagogyp. 321
Nocturnep. 335
Old World Origins of the Matachines Dancep. 339
New World Inspiration and Peggy Glanville-Hicks's Opera Nausicaap. 357
Indexp. 369
List of Contributorsp. 377
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