1. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
12/13/2019
Chapter Five
“A Language of Feeling” : Cultivating Musical Tastes in Antebellum America
DAY 13 (27 Sep 19)

2. Music for the Masses vs. ?? “Classical” / “Art” / “Cultivated” Music
Elitist vs. Egalitarian
Who makes/uses/listens each and why?
Reflected in markets for music
- publishing (for home or other use)
- teaching
- performing (professionals & pro. ensembles)
- promotion

3. b. 1756, Portsmouth, England d. 1809, Baltimore
Alexander Reinagle
English Immigrant Musician
New York (1786) to Philadelphia
Composer, publisher, performer, teacher, promoter, salesman, etc.
1st U.S. sheet music (Levy Sheet Music Collection)
Music Director – Chestnut St. Theatre
Stage Works & Concert Pieces
Sonata No. 1, 1st mvt (1794) - classical form & style - no sheet music (why not?)
“America, Commerce, and Freedom” (see next slide)
b. 1756, Portsmouth, England d. 1809, Baltimore

4. from… The Sailor’s Landlady (1794?)
America, Commerce and Freedom (Chamber Ensemble)

5. Categories & Audiences
Notation (either….)
- prescriptive (strict) = “classical” / composer
- descriptive (open) = “popular” / performer
Three Spheres (textbook)
- “classical” / “art” – transcendent experience
- “popular” – accessible to broadest audience
- “traditional” / “folk” – connection to community/ancestors/origins

6. Opera in U.S.
Earliest Opera in U.S. (pre-1825) in English (or English translation)
1825 – Maria Garcia [Malibran] in US - Rossini, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (in Italian)
Opera popular in all forms - staged in original language - in Burlesques (plots made comic) - in sheet music
Opera singers as superstars

7. Maria Garcia and sheet music from Rossini’s Otello
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Maria Garcia and sheet music from Rossini’s Otello
Ex. "Vorrei che il tuo pensiero"
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8. Opera in New Orleans (& elsewhere)
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Opera in New Orleans (& elsewhere)
Opera before 1800!
French traditions (Creole)
Théâtre d’Orléans (1819)
Numerous American premieres of European works (52 in first five years!)
Toured Northeast U.S. *****
San Francisco opera
1856 – Maguire’s Opera House
1860 – Maguire-Lyster Co.
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9. Jenny Lind (& PT Barnum)
U.S. tour – widely promoted by Barnum $500,000 - profit
“The Swedish Nightingale” ( ) $ 350,000 in fees

10. Jenny Lind Vanity Mirror
Jenny Lind - marketing
Jenny Lind Vanity Mirror
Jenny Lind Paper Dolls
PT Barnum poster
"Meet Jenny Lind..."
The Jenny Lind Exhibit

11. Bands in the US (pre-Civil War)
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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
DAY 13 (27 Sep 19)

12. Ex. Ophicleide demonstration
Ophicleide & Saxhorns
Ex.The Ophicleide
Ex. Ophicleide demonstration
Ex. Baritone Saxhorn Ex. Alto Saxhorn

13. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
12/13/2019
Exs. Band Music from the Civil War Era (LoC) & Dodworth Saxhorn Band (Rehearsal)
Civil War Bands
Ex. Helene Schottisch (LG 5.1, p. 102)
DAY 13 (27 Sep 19)