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Dvořák in America : in search of the New World / Joseph Horowitz.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3930.D9 H67 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Horowitz, Joseph, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dvořák, Antonín, 1841-1904--Journeys--United States--Juvenile literature.
- Dvořák, Antonín.
- United States--Description and travel--Juvenile literature.
- United States.
- Composers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Composers.
- Dvořák, Antonín, 1841-1904.
- Music--United States--History and criticism.
- United States--Description and travel.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 158 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Cricket Books, 2003.
- Summary:
- An account of Antonin Dvorak's 1890s stay in America, where he took the essences of Indian drums, slave spirituals, and other musical forms and created from them a distinctly new music.
- Contents:
- Prelude: Young Harry Burleigh
- New York greets Dvořák
- Dvořák gets his bearings
- Buffalo Bill and Hiawatha
- Dvořák and the "yellow" press
- Spillville
- The New World Symphony
- A tale of two cities
- Postlude: Old Harry Burleigh.
- Notes:
- "A Marcato book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0812626818
- 0812626923
- OCLC:
- 50941659
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