Evening star., 1935-01-20
PUBLIC LIBRARY
MUSIC IN AMERICA,

| Il ucl6uI, WIN musical events
III following closely upon one
Il another, the music division
presents a short reading list
( upon the history and development Of
music in America. A selected list Of
composers and works on American
songs appeared in these columns last
week.
| History Of American Music.
The History of American Music, by
L. C. Elson. 1925. VV83 .EL776.
"The author has told Of the be-
ginnings, the foreign influences, the
changes, methods and personal en-
deavors that have gone into the max
ing of our present music"
Music in America, by Arthur Farwen
and w. D. Darby. 1915. WI.
M386. VA (The Art Of Music, va.
Many phases of the musical de-
velopment of America are brought
together in this informal history.
Our American Music, Three Hundred
Years Of 1t, by ]. T. Howard. 1881.
VV83.H83.
"An account of the music that has
been written in America; not his
tory of musical activities, except, Of
course, where we must have some
idea of the conditions that have pro-
duced the composers Of each era"
A Hundred Years of Music in Amer
ica, by w. S. B. Mathews. 1893.
VV83 .M423h.
A history Of American music In the
nineteenth century.
The American Idiom.
American Composers on American
Music, Symposium, ed. BY Henry
Cowell. 1888. VV83.C829.
A notable contribution to the rather
scanty literature on modern American
music and its composers.
So This Is Jazz, by H. o. osgood.
1926. VV83 .OS3s.
This book is not q technical
treatise, but a story for the reader
who would like to know little some
thing more about what he has been
enjoying-or detesting-for the last
decade
An Hour With American Music, by
Paul Rosenfeld. 1929. VV83.R72.
A brief survey Of musical accom-
plishment in America, with notes con-
cerning some outstanding composers.
America and Her Music, by Lamar
Stringfield. 1881. VV83.St84.
An outline for the study of Ameri-
can folk music designed for the use
of music clubs.
Jazz, by Paul whiteman and M. M.
Mcbride. 1926. VV83.W58.
For hundreds of years savage tribes
in far places rolled out rhythms on
harsh drums of home-tanned hides,
rhythms that stimulated to war or
soothed to peace as the need Of the
moment dictated. The vitality Of the
worlds youngest nation has absorbed,
added to, and carried on that rhythm.
first in ragtime and blues, now in
jazz"
! Music in American Life.
Music in Industry, by K. S. Clark.
1929. VV83 C54m.
ut is most desirable that every
one obtain a fairly clear picture Of
the service which music is rendering
in industry at the present time, and
of its influence and its future pos
\ sibilities.'
Music on the Air. by H. g. Kinscella.
1884. VV.K627.
There is a constantly increasing
quantity Of real music which can be
heard over the radio today, and as
the greater number of listeners have
never had an opportunity such as
this before, it is important that their
musical intelligence should be sharp
ened and their power Of appreciation
increased"
The book Music on the Air. by
Hazel Gertrude Kinscella, Is real
contribution in this direction."-Wal-
ter DanroSch.
Tune in America, by D. q. Mason.
1881. VV83.M38.
A plea for American music for
American listeners, and more active
participation in musical performance
by the general public.
Music in American Life, Present and
Future, by A. D. Zanzig. 1882.
VV83Zl2.
Here in the arts Is new, end
lessly rich continent which exists
| within the minds and hearts Of the
people and may be realized through
such adventuring as is proposed in
%l,se fc nj
enrichment for every one, and in
creasing leisure for it."
Concert and Orchestra.
My Musical Life, by Walter Damrosch.
1926. VW1OD187m.
No single person has done more
to popularize good music in America
than Walter Damrosch, who here tells
his own story.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra, by
M. A. D. w. Howe. 1914. Wv.
844B. .H8.
THE task has been to construct
from a considerable body Of record
the story of the orchestra"
Serge Koussevitsky, by Arthur Lourie.
1891. VWlO.K85L.
A full-length portrait Of the leader
of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Arturo Toscanini, by Tobia Nicotra.
1929. VW10 T638n.E.
Although Toscanini still belongs to
Italy, his periodical visits to this coun-
try and his leadership Of the New
York Philharmonic Orchestra make
his name inseparable from the his
tory of the development OF the or.
chestra in America.
The American Orchestra and Theo-
dore Thomas, by c. E. Russell.
1927. VV83 R9l.
Tendencies and developments i'm
perceptible when Theodore Thomas
died, and for years afterward. seem
apparent now. In view OF this evo-
luton, the time has seemed hitting to
attemnt a survey of his work and