Contents
History of Music as Performance
Social Evolution of the American Symphony Orchestra
BACKGROUND OF THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN THE UNITED STATES
SOME FORERUNNERS OF THE AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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
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
National Sources of the Orchestral Repertoire
The Orchestra, Concert Folkways, and Social Life
THE FUNCTION OF THE ORCHESTRA IN COMMUNITY AND NATION