Chapter V: Part III: Creation

XI. THE FOLK-ELEMENT IN AMERICAN MUSIC 277

Nationalism in music--Sources of American folk-song;
classification of folk-songs--General characteristics of the
negro folk-song--The negro folk-song and its makers--Other
American folk-songs--The negro minstrel tunes;
Stephen Foster, etc.--Patriotic and national songs.

XII. THE CLASSIC PERIOD OF AMERICAN COMPOSITION 331

Pioneers in American Composition: Fry, Emery, Gottschalk--The
Boston group of 'classicists': Chadwick, Foote, Parker,
and others--Other exponents of the 'Classical': William
Mason, Dudley Buck, Arthur Whiting, and others--The
lyricists: Ethelbert Nevin; American song-writers--Composers
of church music.

XIII. ROMANTICISTS AND NEO-CLASSICISTS 360

Influences and conditions of the period--Edward
MacDowell--Edgar Stillman-Kelley--Arne Oldberg;
Henry Hadley; F. S. Converse--E. R. Kroeger; Rubin Goldmark;
Howard Brockway; Homer N. Bartlett--Daniel Gregory
Mason; David Stanley Smith; Edward Burlingame Hill--The
younger men: Philip Greeley Clapp; Arthur Bergh;
Joseph Henius; Carl Busch--The San Francisco Group;
Miscellany--Women Composers.

XIV. NATIONALISTS, ECLECTICS AND ULTRA-MODERNS 407

The new spirit and its various manifestations--Henry
F. Gilbert, Arthur Farwell, Harvey W. Loomis--Frederic
Ayres, Arthur Shepherd, Noble Kreider, Benjamin
Lambord--Campbell-Tipton; Arthur Nevin; C. W. Cadman;
J. A. Carpenter; T. C. Whitmer--W. H. Humiston, John Powell,
Blair Fairchild, Maurice Arnold--Sidney Homer;
Clough-Leighter and others--Charles M. Loeffler and other
Americans of foreign birth or residence.

XV. THE LIGHTER VEIN 451

Sources of American popular music--Its past and present
phases--American comic opera: Reginald de Koven;
Victor Herbert; John Philip Sousa; other writers of light
opera--The decline of light opera and the present state of
theatrical music.

LITERATURE 465

INDEX 469

MUSIC IN AMERICA