Author: Charles Wakefield CadmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Shanewis
Author: Charles Wakefield CadmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Frontier Figures
Author: Beth E. LevyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520952022
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses questions of regionalism, race, and representation as well as changing relationships to the natural world to highlight the intersections between classical music and the diverse worlds of Indians, pioneers, and cowboys. Levy draws from an array of genres to show how different brands of western Americana were absorbed into American culture by way of sheet music, radio, lecture recitals, the concert hall, and film. Frontier Figures is a comprehensive illumination of what the West meant and still means to composers living and writing long after the close of the frontier.
Imagining Native America in Music
Author: Michael V PisaniPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300130732
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
This book offers a comprehensive look at musical representations of native America from the pre colonial past through the American West and up to the present. The discussion covers a wide range of topics, from the ballets of Lully in the court of Louis XIV to popular ballads of the nineteenth century; from eighteenth-century British-American theater to the musical theater of Irving Berlin; from chamber music by Dvoˆrák to film music for Apaches in Hollywood Westerns. Michael Pisani demonstrates how European colonists and their descendants were fascinated by the idea of race and ethnicity in music, and he examines how music contributed to the complex process of cultural mediation. Pisani reveals how certain themes and metaphors changed over the centuries and shows how much of this “Indian music,” which was and continues to be largely imagined, alternately idealized and vilified the peoples of native America.
The Sun Bride
Author: Charles Sanford SkiltonPublisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0895794373
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Based on a legend of the Pueblo Indians from the four-corners area of the United States, the libretto by Lilian White Spencer relates the story of the brave Bluefeather, who falls in love with the Bonita clan's Sun Bride. The plot also serves as a frame for the depiction of Indian ceremonies and games, which have their foundation on Skilton's research into Pueblo music and lore. The opera is presented in piano-vocal score, since it was most often performed in this way. The edition includes two plates, which juxtapose the piano-vocal score with the orchestral score.
The Musical Monitor
Author: Modern music and musicians
Author: Ignace Jan PaderewskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Modern Music and Musicians
Author: The Legends of the Iroquois : Told by the "Cornplanter"
Author: William Walker CanfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iroquois Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
What We Hear in Music
Author: Anne Shaw FaulknerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Legends of the Iroquois
Author: William W. CanfieldPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
It is not the purpose of this volume to deal to any considerable extent with the history of the Indians, but simply to present some of the legends of the Iroquois. To the reader or student, however, is due a brief statement as to the authority from which the folk-lore contained herein has been drawn, that there may remain no question as to its reliability. Contents: About Indian Legends The Authority The Confederation of the Iroquois Birth of the Arbutus A Legend of the River Legends of the Corn The First Winter The Great Mosquito The Story of Oniata The Mirror in the Water The Buzzard's Covering Origin of the Violet The Turtle Clan The Healing Waters The Sacrifice of Aliquipiso Why the Animals do not Talk The Message Bearers The Wise Sachem's Gift The Flying Head The Ash Tree The Hunter Hiawatha The Peacemaker An Unwelcome Visitor Bits of Folk-Lore The Happy Hunting-Grounds The Sacred Stone of the Oneidas