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The American Symphony Orchestra: Contents

The American Symphony Orchestra

Contents

Contents

INTRODUCTION

Tastes Can Be Accounted For

1

History of Music as Performance

2

Social Evolution of the American Symphony Orchestra

GROWTH OF THE CONCERT SYSTEM

BACKGROUND OF THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN THE UNITED STATES

SOME FORERUNNERS OF THE AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

3

Profiles of Major American Orchestras

THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY SOCIETY (1842)

THE NEW YORK SYMPHONY SOCIETY (1878)

THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (L88L)

THE CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (1891)

THE CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (1895)

THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA (1900),

THE MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (1903)

THE ST. LOUIS SYMPHONY SOCIETY (1907)

THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (1911)

THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA (1918)

THE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA (1919)

THE PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

THE DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

THE BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

THE ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

THE INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

WASHINGTON, D. C.: THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

4

Life Spans of Composers in the Repertoire

THE SIX MOST PRE-EMINENT COMPOSERS

Ludwig Van Beethoven • Johannes Brahms • Richard Wagner • Peter Ilich Tchaikowsky • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Johann Sebastian Bach

COMPOSERS WITH LOW AND STABLE TRENDS

Franz Joseph Haydn • George Frederick Handel • Karl Maria Von Weber • Christoph Willibald Gluck

COMPOSERS IN THE ASCENDING PHASE

Richard Strauss • Jan Sibelius • César Franck • Igor Stravinsky • Claude Debussy • Anton Bruckner • Sergei Rachmaninoff • Dmitri Shostakovitch • Gustav Mahler • Sergei Prokofieff • Arnold Schoenberg • Aaron Copland • Ralph Vaughan Williams • Paul Hindemith • Darius Milhaud • Bela Bartok • William Schuman • William Walton • Charles Ives

COMPOSERS IN THE DESCENDING PHASE

Robert Schumann • Franz Schubert • Hector Berlioz • Franz Liszt • Felix Mendelssohn • Anton Rubinstein

COMPOSERS WITH FULL LIFE CYCLES

Antonin Dvorak • Camille Saint-Saens • Edvard Grieg • Bedrich Smetana • Edward Alexander MacDowell • Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakoff • Edward Elgar • Vincent d’Indy • Alexander Glazounoff • Alexander Scriabin • Ottorino Respighi • Ernest Bloch • Manuel De Falla • Roy Harris

THE FORGOTTEN NAMES

5

National Sources of the Orchestral Repertoire

AUSTRO-GERMANY

FRANCE

RUSSIA-SOVIET UNION

ITALY

GREAT BRITAIN

LATIN AMERICA

UNITED STATES

6

The Orchestra, Concert Folkways, and Social Life

THE FUNCTION OF THE ORCHESTRA IN COMMUNITY AND NATION

SEATING PLANS

THE CONDUCTOR

MANAGEMENT AND UNION

The Musicians’ Union

THE AUDIENCE AND ITS FOLKWAYS

THE PROGRAM

THE CONCERT SERIES

THE STANDARD REPERTOIRE

7

Musical Taste and How It Is Formed

Notes

Index

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