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Music of the United States before 1900

	music of the united states (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The original inhabitants of the United States included hundreds of Native American tribes, as well as native Hawaiians and Inuits, who played the first music in the area, eventually augmented by immigrants from England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain and France.
		Cajun and Louisiana Creole music, rural Appalachian jug bands and country blues-hillbilly music were recorded, each finding some success and mixing with jazz and blues in the process, resulting in an influx of new, popular styles like close harmony.
		Doo wop, a complex type of vocal music, also became popular during the 1950s, and left its mark on 1960s soul and R&B. Its polished sound and romantic ballads made it a major part of the 50s music scene, and, later in the decade, began producing teen idols like Frankie Valli.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Music_of_the_United_States.html (2775 words)

	Music Courses - Boston College
		While music that served as a transitional style from the Baroque period will be the starting point for this course, in large measure, the focus of the course will be on the music of the four great composers who lived and worked in, or around Vienna in the period 1780-1828: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.
		This is a study of the music of the twentieth century, including concepts, ideas, techniques, compositional materials, analytical principles of the music, as well as a historical, chronological survey of the composers and compositions of the modern era.
		An introduction to Irish music including: a historical examination of the music and its indigenous instruments, and a close study of contemporary developments arising from the folk music revival of the 1960s, particularly in relation to ensemble performance.
	www.bc.edu /crs/mu/index/web/all.courses.shtml (3434 words)

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		Benjamin was a professor of music at Mansfield University from 1950-1971.
		For the NYSSMA she was chairperson for the All-State Chorus in 1988 and 89 and chairperson of the Voice Division in 1990 and 91.
		Douglas C. Orzolek received the Bachelor of Music in Music Education degree from Mansfield University of Pennsylvania in 1989, the Master of Education in Music Education degree from Penn State University in 1993, and the Doctor of Philosophy in Music Education degree from the University of Minnesota in 1995.
	music.mansfield.edu /alumni.html (9972 words)

	Edward Bailey Birge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This musical activity was reinforced by family duets with his father, a leader in the community band and chorus, and his sister, an excellent pianist.
		He was involved in the Music Supervisors Conference from its inception in 1907 and continued to serve on committees and present papers after his presidency ended.
		Before Birge died, he transferred to MENC the author’s rights to his book, The History of Public School Music in the United States, and also left a bequest to the organization in his will.
	www.public.asu.edu /~aajth/presidents/birge.html (1057 words)

	Contents of the United Nations Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Of note is correspondence to the United Nations Secretary-General concerning the progress of the mission, and a record (transcript) of a conversation of November 1, 1966, with Thana Khoman, the Thai Foreign Minister.
		Of note are an address by the Chairman of the United Nations Commission for Indonesia at the first plenary meeting of the Round Table Conference on August 23, 1949; and correspondence between the Secretary-General of the Conference and members of the Netherlands Minority Group concerning admittance and the hearing of minorities.
		Access requires application to the Secretary-General of the United Nations transmitted on the approved form, pursuant to such rules as the Government concerned may prescribe, by the Permanent Representative or Permanent Observer of the State of which the applicant is a national or permanent resident.
	www.un.org /Depts/archives/datarecs.html (8335 words)

	NewMusicBox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When we, a group of American composers, established the American Music Center, creative musicians in the United States were having desperate difficulty bringing their music before the public.
		By 1938 and 1939, American music was thriving and growing, but the infant, represented by several groups, the ACA [American Composers Alliance] among them, was in need of parental authority.
		I represented Arrow Music Press and ACA; Howard Hanson, Eastman School Publications and Recordings; Marion Bauer, the Society for the Publication of American Music; and Porter, Yaddo and the New England Conservatory Recordings.
	www.newmusicbox.org /article.nmbx?id=384 (2763 words)

	Ragtime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Not only was ragtime itself one of the first widely popular styles of music that actually developed in the U.S., but it also played a major part in the development of a style that has been called "America's music": jazz.
		To "rag" a piece of music is to take a well-known tune and change the rhythm of it to make it syncopated, or "jazzy"-sounding.
		Recognition as a composer of serious music was Scott Joplin's goal as a musician, a goal he did not achieve in his lifetime.
	cnx.rice.edu /content/m10878/latest (935 words)

	WPA California Folk Music Project Collection: California Folk Music Project
		Fieldnotes were kept regarding the context of the performance and the background of the music and instruments, recorded on "Yellow Song Check-Lists" by WPA staff and on the dust jackets of the acetate discs by Cowell as recordings were being made.
		It includes the folk music of immigrants who arrived in the United States from the turn of the century through the 1920's, American popular songs current from 1900 through 1940, not to mention old California songs from the gold-rush era and before, old medicine show tunes, San Francisco Barbary Coast songs, and ragtime.
		The drawings of musical instruments are from the holdings of the Music Library at the University of California, Berkeley.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/afccchtml/cowcfmp.html (936 words)

	Race/Music: "Corrine Corrina" and the Excluded Middle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The relative prosperity and stability of the Chatmon clan was in large part based upon carefully husbanded musical skills, and a cosmopolitan, incorporative approach to music-making which allowed them to weave a set of socioeconomic relationships that crossed the color line (echoing, though not reproducing exactly, their recognized genealogical links to local white families).
		Musically speaking, we have entered an alternative universe: a moderate bolero tempo, with ‘plinky’ arpeggiated guitar chords (dripping with tremolo), angelic vocal pads, maracas and woodblock (sonic icons of Latin romance), and dramatic soli scoring for string orchestra, bathed in studio reverb.
		This bifurcating logic, peculiar to the United States (for even apartheid South Africa recognized intermediate racial categories), emerged from the South during the period after the Civil War to become the dominant mode of racial conceptualization in 20th century America (see Davis 1991).
	www-dtp.cc.utexas.edu /cofa/music/erlmannseries/corrina.htm (8649 words)

	United States History, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Resource Guide
		The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1970 and is made available with the cooperation and consent of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
		An Outline of American History is one of the oldest continuing publications of the United States Information Agency (USIA), the first edition coming out in 1949-50 and this current edition in 1994.
		The Women and Social Movements website is a project of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton, intended to introduce students to a rich collection of primary documents related to women and social movements in the United States between 1775 and 1940.
	www.carnegielibrary.org /subject/history/us.html (1389 words)

	Amazon.com: Copland: Music for Films: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Music for Films is music that communicates so well what the different movements are supposed to depict...etc. Great sound, too.
		For this reason, his film music not only suits the action on the big screen but is worthy of concert performance as well.
		The "Music for the Movies" suite includes two excerpts from the "Of Mice and Men" score: a gentle and unforgettable musical portrait of John Steinbeck's Salinas country.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003FHI?v=glance (1727 words)

	Folk Music Albums Available on CD (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
		The Library of Congress and Rounder Records have joined together in a project to reissue on compact discs American folk music from the legendary Library of Congress series Folk Music of the United States.
		(Rounder CD 1522) A companion to Songs and Ballads of the Anthracite Miners, this album of mining songs, documented in 1940 by "folklorist of the coal fields" George Korson, presents the performances of bituminous (soft coal) miners, from the time before automation drastically changed the way their work was done.
		(Rounder CD 1521) In the 1940s, the Wisconsin Folk Music Recording Project, sponsored by the Library of Congress and the University of Wisconsin, took Helene Stratman-Thomas and other fieldworkers on a collecting expedition around Wisconsin to document a folk music that reflects the colorful pattern of immigration and and occupational development in the state.
	www.loc.gov /folklife/rounder.html (1352 words)

	American History - Decade 1940 - 1949
		The United States emerged from World War II as a world superpower, challenged only by the USSR.
		Adolf Hitler systematically eliminated artists whose ideals didn't agree with his own, many emigrated to the United States, where they had a profound effect on American artists.
		Richard Wright completed Native Son in 1940 and Black Boy in 1945, earning acclaim, but government persecution over his communist affiliation sent him to Paris in 1945.
	kclibrary.nhmccd.edu /decade40.html (3138 words)

	The Music Business
		Music Recording Industry (MRI) Administrative Positions: Most Appropriate Educational and Experiential Preparation as Perceived by Selected MRI Administrators and Educators.
		Musical and Social Patterns of Songwriters: An Exploratory Sociological Study.
		Shore, Laurence K. The Crossroads of Business and Music: A Study of the Music Industry in the United States and Internationally.
	www.chipublib.org /008subject/001artmusic/musicbusiness/busbib.html (2158 words)

	Resources
		Music In The United States, A Historical Introduction
		Donations go towards the aquisition of additional music, preservation of music, equipment and educational efforts.
		Before using any of these images, text or MIDI performances, please contact one of us.
	parlorsongs.com /bibliography/resources.asp (527 words)

	MUS 260: Music in the United States (Wegman) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ability to read music, and knowledge of music history and theory, are helpful but not required.
		For musical traditions of the Pueblo and Navajo (New Mexico and Arizona), listen to CD-WNT-2, A-302 N301, and A-302 N406.
		Music associated with the American Revolution on A-302 N276, CD-5212 tracks 6-8, and LS-10109 (the latter, Hopkinson's America Independent of 1781, is also referred to by Hoover on p.
	www.princeton.edu /~rwegman/mus260.htm (6020 words)

	Memphis, Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Encyclopedia Articles which Refer to This City (Possible Matches)
		List of cities that have been the birthplace of a genre of music
		List of cities that no longer have trolleybuses
	www.worldhistory.com /locality/US/TX/Memphis-Texas.htm (72 words)

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