The Coming of Age of American Art Music: New England's Classical Romanticists

by Nicholas E. Tawa

In the years following the Civil War, a tradition of American art music arose that has now come to be neglected and almost ignored. This work studies that period of music that preceded Copland, Sessions, and Thomson by focusing on a number of its important composers, as well as the society that produced them. John Knowles Paine, George Chadwick, Edward MacDowell, Horatio Parker, Arthur Foote, and Amy Beach all achieved national and international...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313277974
• ISBN13: 9780313277979
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.