Music of the Gilded Age

Informationen zum Autor John Ogasapian was a Professor of Music History at University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and author of Music of the Colonial and Revolutionary Era (Greenwood, 2004). N. Lee Orr is Coordinator of Music History and Literature at Georgia State University. Klappentext America's Gilded Age was a time of great musical evolution. As the country continued to develop a musical style apart from Europe, its church and religious music and opera took on new forms. Music-as-entertainment also evolved, with marching bands at public events and the new musicals in theaters. This volume presents the composers, musicians, songwriters, instruments and musical forms that uniquely identify the Gilded Age. Chapters include: Concerts and Symphony orchestras; Grand Opera; Composers, Critics, and Conservatories; Amateurs and Music at Home; Sacred Music, Black and White; Ragtime, Vaudeville, and the American Musical Stage; Music, Politics, and the Progressive Movement; and Music Industries and Technology Zusammenfassung As the country continued to develop a musical style apart from Europe! its church and religious music and opera took on new forms. This volume presents the composers! musicians! songwriters! instruments and musical forms that uniquely identify the Gilded Age. Chapters include: Concerts and Symphony orchestras;

Produktdetails

• Autoren: John Ogasapian, John/ Orr Ogasapian, N. Lee Orr
• Verlag: Abc Clio Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Altersempfehlung: 7 bis 17 Jahre
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.05.2007
• EAN: 9780313335525
• ISBN: 978-0-313-33552-5
• Seiten: 204
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Serien: American History Through Music; American History through Music
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Musik > Musikgeschichte; Music, MUSIC / General, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), History of the Americas, American History: Culture