MUH 3633 - Music in the United States 9/15/2018 Chapter Five “A Language of Feeling” : Cultivating Musical Tastes in Antebellum America DAY 12 (5 Feb 18)
Bands in the US (pre-Civil War) (Still) Based in military music Harmoniemusik w/ additions…. Keyed brass, e.g., ophecleide Valves – c. 1840, e.g., cornet Saxhorns (invented by Adolphe Sax, 1840s) Brass bands Add Percussion – Janissary Instruments
Ex. Ophicleide demonstration Ophecleide & Saxhorns Ex.The Ophicleide Ex. Ophicleide demonstration Ex. Baritone Saxhorn Ex. Alto Saxhorn
MUH 3633 - Music in the United States 9/15/2018 Exs. Band Music from the Civil War Era (LoC) & Dodworth Saxhorn Band Civil War Bands Ex. Helene Schottisch (LG 5.1, p. 117) DAY 12 (5 Feb 18)
Oratorio Societies Boston Handel and Haydn Society (1815) Amateur Choral Singers Classical ART Music Concert as Edification "At 200, Handel And Haydn Society's Music Remains Unchanged“ Civic Choral Groups - Bach Festival (Winter Park) - Bach Festival (Bethlehem) - Others (Wikipedia list)
John Sullivan Dwight Boston Minister, Transcendentalist, etc. 1st (important) Music Critic Interest in Beethoven 1841 – LvB’s Sym 1 Journal (1852-1881) Music as a social tool - Classical music at top - egalitarian participation - “Republicanism”
Classical Music in NYC Philharmonic Society of New York (1842) - “the advancement of instrumental music” - European immigrant and trained musicians William Henry Fry (1813-1864) - composer, critic, & promoter of US music - 1st (?) US symphony: Santa Claus Symphony (1853) - Grand operas, including Leonora (1845) George Bristow (1825-1898) - composer, performer & advocate of US music - symphonic: Symphony No. 2 (1854), etc. A.P. Heinrich (1781-1861)
Louis Moreau Gottschalk MUH 3633 - Music in the United States Louis Moreau Gottschalk 9/15/2018 Child prodigy in NOLA Age 13 to Paris - rejected by Conservatoire - private study Debut Salle Pleyel (age 16) - praised by Chopin (!) - “Creole” compositions “exotic” Bamboula, danse des negres, Op. 2 (cf., next slide) Gottschalk - The Banjo, Fantaisie Grotesque, Op.15 (LG 5.2 - p. 127) b. 1829, New Orleans; d. 1869, Rio de Janeiro DAY 12 (5 Feb 18)
“The Bamboula” by E.W. Kremble for The Century Magazine (1886)