Beethoven in America

Beethoven in America

Author: Michael Broyles

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2011-10-27

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0253357047

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Examines America's early reception to Beethoven, the use of his work and image in American music, movies, stage works, and other forms of popular culture, and related topics.


America's Musical Life

America's Musical Life

Author: Richard Crawford

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 1000

ISBN-13: 9780393048100

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An illustrated history of America's musical heritage ranges from the earliest examples of Native American traditional song to the innovative sound of contemporary rock and jazz.


Beethoven in America

Beethoven in America

Author: Michael Broyles

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2011-10-27

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0253357047

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Examines America's early reception to Beethoven, the use of his work and image in American music, movies, stage works, and other forms of popular culture, and related topics.


Beethoven's Symphonies and J.S. Dwight

Beethoven's Symphonies and J.S. Dwight

Author: Ora Frishberg Saloman

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781555532161

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John Sullivan Dwight (1813-1893), the first American critic of art music and the founder of Dwight's Journal of Music, set a new standard for musical criticism in the 1840s by fostering the American reception of Ludwig van Beethoven's then unfamiliar symphonies. Drawing upon extraordinary and painstaking research, Ora Frishberg Saloman details the progressive and influential musical vision of the young Dwight, offering a dramatic and long overdue corrective to the conservative image of the critic that has prevailed for most of this century.


The Changing Image of Beethoven

The Changing Image of Beethoven

Author: Alessandra Comini

Publisher: Sunstone Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 0865346615

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In this unique study of the myth-making process across two centuries, Comini examines the contradictory imagery of Beethoven in contemporary verbal accounts, and in some 200 paintings, prints, sculptures, and monuments.


Classical Music In America

Classical Music In America

Author: Joseph Horowitz

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2005-03-15

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13: 9780393057171

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An award-winning scholar and leading authority on American symphonic culture argues that classical music in the United States is peculiarly performance-driven, and he traces a musical trajectory rising to its peak at the close of the 19th century and receding after World War I.


Czechs Won't Get Lost in the World, Let Alone in America

Czechs Won't Get Lost in the World, Let Alone in America

Author: Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2018-05-02

Total Pages: 638

ISBN-13: 1546238905

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This book features a panorama of the lives of selected personalities, whose roots had origin in the Czech lands and who, in the US, reached extraordinary success and who, with their activities, substantially influenced the growth and development of their new homeland. It is a saga of plain, as well as powerful, people whose influence and importance often exceeded the borders of the US. A great portion of included individuals may be unknown to readers since it concerns persons whose Czech origin was usually not known. The book covers the total period from the times of the discovery of New World to the end of the twentieth century. During the selection, little concern was given to nationalistic or ethnographic criteria, the only prerequisite was that the respected individuals were either born on the territory of the Czech lands or were descendants of emigrants from the Czech lands. The image on the front cover is a portrait of Augustine Herman, Lord of Bohemia Manor, the first documented Czech immigrant in the United States. The portrait comes from his famous Map of Maryland and Virginia, dated 1670. The colorful story of his life would be unbelievable if made into a movie. Pioneer, merchant, explorer, surveyor, map maker, patriot, rebel, diplomat, and finally Lord! Read more about him in the book.