1. Friendly Alert
Test # 1: WEDNESDAY, 18 October 2017 (one week from today)
During regular class time
Covers chapters 1 – 7 (See Review Sheets for Details)

2. Chapter Seven
“After the Ball” : Band Music, Gospel Hymns, and Popular songs after the Civil War

3. “Tin Pan Alley” Music Publishing Industry in NYC (28th St)
MUH 2019 (FALL 2014)
“Tin Pan Alley”
5/26/2018
Music Publishing Industry in NYC (28th St)
Music as commodity - for home use - sold everywhere
Public performances - Theatres - Music Halls
Vaudeville - Touring Shows - Orpheum (Keith-Albee) - T.O.B.A.
“Song Pluggers”
DAY 18 (11 Oct 17)

4. Sheet Music 1st “mega-hit” Charles K. Harris (1892)
J Aldrich Libby sang in A Trip to Chinatown
Verse (tells the story)
Chorus (repeats exactly)
Examples (LG.7.3) - Charles K. Harris - After the Ball – YouTube (c. 1920s) - After The Ball - Morris & Bolcom - After The Ball - Gaskin (1893)

5. Tin Pan Alley Songs
“The Bowery” by Gaunt & Hoyt - A Trip to Chinatown (1891)
“Sweet Rosie O'Grady” by Maude Nugent - vaudeville performer (1896)
“On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away” by Paul Dresser (1897) – 2nd highest selling 19th C
“A Bird in a Gilded Cage” by Lamb & Von Tilzer (1900) – 2 million copies sold (1900)
“My Gal Sal” by Paul Dresser (1905)

6. TEST # 1 Materials END Here
Nothing after this slide will be used on Test # 1 (16 OCT 17)

7. “To Stretch Our Ears” : Classical Music Comes of Age
Chapter Eight
“To Stretch Our Ears” : Classical Music Comes of Age

8. Theodore Thomas (1835-1905) German Immigrant Violinist in NYC
Theodore Thomas Orchestra - Summer concerts (1864) - touring in US
To Chicago Symphony (1891) - “I would go to hell if they gave me a permanent orchestra”
“…to make good music popular” - belief in the importance of the orchestra - civic pride (orchestra = cultural emblem) - financial support (beyond ticket sales)

9. Second New England School
MUH Music in the United States
Second New England School
5/26/2018
Group of Boston – New York composers
Post-Civil War era ( )
Classical / Art Music
European trained (either there or here)
Established modern US art music infrastructure
“Second” NE School – came after the “First” group of NE Psalmody composers (Billings, et al.)
DAY 18 (11 Oct 17)

10. George Whitfield Chadwick (1854-1931)
John Knowles Paine ( )
Musical family (organists in Maine)
Study in Europe (Berlin)
Harvard – 1st Professor of Music in US
Board of New England Conservatory
Widely influential – many colleagues
George Whitfield Chadwick ( )
Self-taught and “special” NEC student
Study in Leipzig and Munich
Director of New England Cons. ( )
Influential teacher – H. Parker, W.G. Still, A. Whiting, F. Converse, F. Price, et al.

11. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
5/26/2018
Arthur Foote ( )
Trained entirely in US (NEC & Harvard) - earned 1st M.A. in Music in US
Organist & founding member of AGO
Teacher & author of theory books
Chamber Music
Horatio Parker ( )
Student of Chadwick in Boston
Study in Munich w/ Rheinberger
Hora novissima, etc., - make rep in 1890s
Theory Professor and Dean of SoM at Yale U
Teacher of Charles Ives
DAY 18 (11 Oct 17)