The American musical landscape [electronic resource] : the business of musicianship from Billings to Gershwin /

Crawford, Richard, 1935-

The American musical landscape the business of musicianship from Billings to Gershwin / [electronic resource] : Richard Crawford. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000, c1993. - xix, 381 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

Updated edition with a new preface. E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/

Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-358) and index.

Cosmopolitan and provincial : American musical historiography -- Professions and patronage I : teaching and composing -- Professions and patronage II : performing -- William Billings (1746-1800) and American psalmody : a study of musical dissemination -- George Frederick Root (1820-1895) and American vocal music -- Duke Ellington (1899-1974) and his orchestra -- George Gershwin's "I got rhythm" (1930).



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