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قراءة كتاب Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
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Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| PAGE | |
| Edward MacDowell | Frontispiece |
| Edgar Stillman Kelley | 57 |
| Harvey Worthington Loomis | 77 |
| Ethelbert Nevin | 92 |
| John Philip Sousa | 112 |
| Henry Schoenefeld | 128 |
| John Knowles Paine | 145 |
| Horatio W. Parker | 174 |
| Frank van der Stucken | 188 |
| George Whitefield Chadwick | 210 |
| Arthur Foote | 221 |
| Henry K. Hadley | 241 |
| Adolph M. Foerster | 248 |
| Charles Crozat Converse | 256 |
| Louis Adolphe Coerne | 262 |
| Henry Holden Huss | 291 |
| Harry Rowe Shelley | 304 |
| Frederick Field Bullard | 351 |
| Homer A. Norris | 357 |
| Frederic Grant Gleason | 367 |
| William H. Sherwood | 383 |
| A.J. Goodrich | 388 |
| Wilson G. Smith | 395 |
| Mrs. H.H.A. Beach | 426 |
| Margaret Ruthven Lang | 432 |
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN
COMPOSERS.
CHAPTER I.
A GENERAL SURVEY.
Coddling is no longer the chief need of the American composer. While he still wants encouragement in his good tendencies,—much more encouragement than he gets, too,—he is now strong enough to profit by the discouragement of his evil tendencies.
In other words, the American composer is ready for criticism.
The first and most vital flaw of which his work will be accused is the lack of nationalism. This I should like to combat after the sophistic fashion of Zeno,—showing, first, why we lack that desideratum, a strictly national school; secondly, that a strictly national school is not desirable; and thirdly, that we most assuredly have a national school.
In building a national individuality, as