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On Fellow Ous Ulletin
on fellow ous L g ulletinH e Volume No. A Newsletter of the Friends of the Longfellow House and the National Park Service June New Study ExaminesThe Song of HiawathaB as Controversial Bestseller atthew Gartner’s recent work on noted in his journal: “Some of the MH.W. Longfellow’s most popular newspapers are fierce and furious about poem asserts that The Song of Hiawatha was Hiawatha,” and a few weeks later, he both a bestseller and a subject of contro- wrote, “There is the greatest pother versy as soon as it was published, and about Hiawatha. It is violently assailed, quickly became a cultural phenomenon. and warmly defended.” The historian Gartner, who is writing a book called The William Prescott, a friend of Longfel- Poet Longfellow: A Cultural Interpretation, will low’s, wrote the poet from New York of present his findings and analysis this July “the hubbub that Hiawatha has kicked up at the Society for the History of Author- in the literary community.” ship, Reading, and Publishing. At the heart of the controversy lay When Hiawatha was first published in Longfellow’s decision to use a poetic it sold rapidly. With an initial print- meter called “trochaic dimeter.” The ing of five thousand volumes, four thou- George H. Thomas illustration, The Song of Hiawatha, London, nineteenth century was an age of great sand were already sold as of its November nationwide by , making it not only sensitivity to the art of prosody, or poetic publication date. By mid-December Longfellow’s best-selling poem ever, but, meter, and Longfellow surely knew Hiawa- eleven thousand volumes were in print. -
The Influence of American Literature Upon Modern Musical Composition
THE INFLUENCE OF AMERICAN LITERATURE UPON MODERN MUSICAL COMPOSITION BY FAY WOOD SWARTZ THESIS FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF MUSIC IN MUSIC COLLEGE OF MUSIC UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 1917 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS June 1, 19(D7 THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT THE THESIS PREPARED UNDER MY SUPERVISION BY _MISS FAY FOOr SWARTZ ENTITLED THE- .IK-FL-IJE.N.CE QF-AMERICl-I^. LI.TER1TIJE.E UP.OS :.1CDERK MUSICAL C,CMPCSITICN._.._.___ IS APPROVED BY ME AS FULFILLING THIS PART OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF. DACKELOR OF I^SIC Approved: INTRODUCTION Of all the arts, there are surely no two more closely re- late! and inter-dependent than literature and music. To becoir.e only partially acquainted with Milton, Browning or Goethe and to note their allusions to music is to realize that they were deeply in- terested in that art. On the other hand, we co-uld hardly have been blessed with great oratorios, masses, operas, cantatas, and songs but for the literary texts upon which they are based. It is certain- ly true that the musician am the literate have always gone hand in hana. As a result, composers have, from the beginning used texts rrom German, English, Italian, French and other literatures as the basis of their inspiration for many fine operas, oratorios, masses, and orchestral works. It m.ay seerr to sere as though American liter- ature has had little influence upon musical composition, that texts from that source have not been found sufficiently worthy for adap- tation to musical settings. -
Choral and Church Music
BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME OF THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND THE GIFT OF Mcnrg m. Sage 1891 9306 MUSIC Cornell University Library ML 100.M39 V 6 The art of music :a comDrehensjv^^^ 3 1924 022 385 318 Cornell University Library The original of tiiis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924022385318 THE ART OF MUSIC v The Singing Angels AUdf piece Hg Hubert and Jan van Eyck The Art of Music A Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers and Musicians Editor-in-Chief DANIEL GREGORY MASON Columbia University Associate Editors EDWARD B. HILL LELAND HALL Harvard University Fast Professor, Univ. of Wisconsin Managing Editor CESAR SAERCHINGER Modern Music Society of New Yorlc In Fourteen Volumes Profusely Illustrated NEW YORK THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF MUSIC THE AET OP MUSIC: VOLUME SIX Choral and Church Music ROSSETTER GLEASON COLE, M.A. Introduction by FRANK DAMROSCH, Mus. Doc. Director Institute of Musical Art in the City of New York Conductor, Musical Art Society of New York, etc. NEW YORK THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF MUSIC Copyright, 1915, by THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF MUSIC, Inc. [All Eights Reserved] PREFATORY NOTE The field of choral and church music is so vast and the subject so inclusive that the author has felt the con- stant pressure of the necessity for sifting and abbrevi- ating and condensing the voluminous material at hand in order not to go far beyond the prescribed limits of this volume. -
Longfellow House Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 1, June 2001
on fellow ous L g ulletinH e Volume 5 No. 1 A Newsletter of the Friends of the Longfellow House and the National Park Service June 2001 New Study ExaminesThe Song of HiawathaB as Controversial Bestseller atthew Gartner’s recent work on noted in his journal: “Some of the MH.W. Longfellow’s most popular newspapers are fierce and furious about poem asserts that The Song of Hiawatha was Hiawatha,” and a few weeks later, he both a bestseller and a subject of contro- wrote, “There is the greatest pother versy as soon as it was published, and about Hiawatha. It is violently assailed, quickly became a cultural phenomenon. and warmly defended.” The historian Gartner, who is writing a book called The William Prescott, a friend of Longfel- Poet Longfellow: A Cultural Interpretation, will low’s, wrote the poet from New York of present his findings and analysis this July “the hubbub that Hiawatha has kicked up at the Society for the History of Author- in the literary community.” ship, Reading, and Publishing. At the heart of the controversy lay When Hiawatha was first published in Longfellow’s decision to use a poetic 1855 it sold rapidly. With an initial print- meter called “trochaic dimeter.” The ing of five thousand volumes, four thou- George H. Thomas illustration, The Song of Hiawatha, London, 1859 nineteenth century was an age of great sand were already sold as of its November nationwide by 1858, making it not only sensitivity to the art of prosody, or poetic 10 publication date. By mid-December Longfellow’s best-selling poem ever, but, meter, and Longfellow surely knew Hiawa- eleven thousand volumes were in print.