American orchestras in the nineteenth century
By: edited by John Spitzer
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780226769769
Subjects: Orchestra; Music; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references  (pages [459]-477) and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward a history of American orchestras in the nineteenth century / Deane L. Root; title: Ubiquity and diversity; title: The ubiquity and diversity of nineteenth-century American orchestras / John Spitzer; title: Building the American symphony orchestra: the nineteenth-century roots of a twenty-first-century musical institution / Mark Clague; title: Modeling music: early organizational structures of American women's orchestras / Anna-Lise P. Santella; title: American orchestras and their unions in the nineteenth century / John Spitzer; title: The orchestra and the American city; title: Orchestras: local versus national / John Spitzer; title: Invisible instruments: theater orchestras in New York, 1850-1900 / John Graziano; title: Beethoven and beer: orchestral music in German beer gardens in nineteenth-century New York city / John Koegel and Jonas Westover; title: Performances to "permanence": orchestra building in late nineteenth-century Cincinnati / Karen Ahlquist; title: Critic and conductor in 1860s Chicago: George P. Upton, Hans Balatka, and cultural capitalism / James Deaville; title: Amateur and professional, permanent and transient: orchestras in the District of Columbia 1877-1905 / Patrick Warfield; title: Conductors, promoters, patrons; title: Marketing the American orchestra / John Spitzer; title: Bernard Ullman and the business of orchestras in mid-nineteenth-century New York / Bethany S. Goldberg; title: John Sullivan Dwight and the Harvard Musical Association Orchestra: a help or a hindrance? / Mary Wallace Davidson; title: The Leopold Damrosch Orchestra, 1877-78: background, instrumentation, programming and critical reception; title: Gender and the germanians: "art-loving ladies" in nineteenth-century concert life / Nancy Newman; title: America and Europe; title: Orchestras: American and European / John Spitzer; title: "A concentration of talent on our musical horizon": the 1853-54 American tour by Jullien's extraordinary orchestra / Katherine K. Preston; title: Ureli Corelli Hill: his European travels and the creation of the New York Philharmonic / Barbara Haws; title: Orchestral repertory; title: Orchestral repertory: highbrow and lowbrow / John Spitzer; title: Orchestral programs in Boston, 1842-55, in European perspective / William Weber; title: Theodore Thomas and the cultivation of American music / Brenda Nelson-Strauss; title: Thinking about serious music in New York, 1842-82 / Adrienne Fried Block; title: Afterword: coming of age / Ronald G. Walters.