Offering a fresh perspective on the making of the American nation, Forging America: New Lands and High Culture shows how the various new portions of the country--the Northeastern wilderness, the West, and later the South and Midwest--were assimilated into the national and intellectual consciousness of the young nation. Specifically, author David P. DeVenney examines the ways in which the arts helped achieve this assimilation, primarily through music and painting, but also through literature and architecture. The search for American-ness in the arts, for what it meant to be an...
Offering a fresh perspective on the making of the American nation, Forging America: New Lands and High Culture shows how the various new por...
Lowell Mason, Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Charles Ives, Edward MacDowell, and Arthur Foote are but some of the American composers featured in this guide.
Lowell Mason, Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Charles Ives, Edward MacDowell, and Arthur Foote are but some of the American composers featured in this guid...
Composed by the youthful John Knowles Paine between 1860 and 1866, the Mass in D, Op. 10 was the first large-scale American work performed before a sophisticated musical audience in a European capital. The premiere, with soli, 200-member chorus and orchestra, was conducted by the composer in Berlin's Singakademie on February 16th, 1867 to much acclaim. This newly engraved and thoroughly researched vocal score here has been prepared by David P. DeVenney from the manuscript and the 1866 first edition vocal score issued under the composer's supervision in New York.
Composed by the youthful John Knowles Paine between 1860 and 1866, the Mass in D, Op. 10 was the first large-scale American work performed before a so...
The first movement from DeVenneys outstanding new edition of this American choral masterpiece, this choral score features a complete piano reduction - reduced to cue-note size. This reformatting allows for printing on a more convenient format for choruses, at a more reasonable price.
The first movement from DeVenneys outstanding new edition of this American choral masterpiece, this choral score features a complete piano reduction -...
