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| | The Music That Americans Loved 100 Years Ago--Tin Pan Alley, Broadway Show Tunes, Ragtime (and Related "Coon Songs"), ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) |
 | | Broadway show tunes, ragtime (and related "coon songs"), marches, vocal numbers on sheet music ranging from sentimental ballads to comic songs--these categories broadly cover what Americans listened to a century ago, let's say from 1895 to 1905. |
 | | Male quartet arrangements were popular, with tunes often sung by a vocal ensemble consisting of a first tenor (the highest pitch), second tenor (usually the leading voice), baritone, and bass. |
 | | Important were such shows as A Trip to Chinatown (1892), from which the popular song "The Bowery" emerged; Wang (1892), with De Wolf Hopper heading the cast; Robin Hood (1890) and Rob Roy (1894), both with music by Reginald De Koven; and El Capitan (1896), with a score by John Philip Sousa. |
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