Gems of exquisite beauty : how hymnody carried classical music to America / Peter Mercer-Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mercer-Taylor, Peter Jameson, author.

Contributor:

Otto E. Albrecht Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music.

Hymns.

United States.

Hymns--United States--19th century--History and criticism.

Music--United States--German influences.

Music--German influences.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 385 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"This is not an autobiography. This book's central characters were in their graves decades before the Oklahoma in which I grew up-far from the American Northeast that was home to most of them-even achieved statehood. But the American musical journey I trace in these pages has stronger autobiographical overtones than we might expect"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Beethoven's 9th Symphony Reaches the United States: Concert and Tune Book

A Tune Recontextualized

Mapping the Road Ahead

The Repertoire

1. Antebellum Psalmody in Its Cultural Context

A Psalm Tune in Action

The Psalm Tune in Antebellum American Music

Choir and Congregation

Interlude: Roads Not Taken

Other Worlds

What Was at Stake in the Europeanizing Project

2. An Immigrant's Musical Memoir: Clifton's 1819 Original Collection and the Modest Launch of a Tradition

Antony Corri Gets a Second Chance

Clifton's Original Collection and Its Place in the American Landscape

Selection and Adaptation: Between Claim and Reality

Clifton's Impact

3. Institutional Certification: Mason's 1822 Handel and Haydn Society Collection and Its Impact

A Savannah Musician and a Boston Musical Society

The Road(s) to the Collection of Church Music

Triumphs, Artistic and Commercial

"Musical Science," "Scientific Music," and Gentility

In the Wake of the Handel and Haydn Society Collection

Conclusion: Securing the Perimeter

4. Heyday: Kingsley's 1838 Sacred Choir and the Midcentury Mania

The Shifting Musical Landscape

George Kingsley's Journey

Interlude: Adaptations of Italian Opera

The Fever Takes Hold (Part 1): New York

The Fever Takes Hold (Part 2): Boston

Interlude: Misattributions and Their Lessons

The Decline of the Practice

5. Psalmodic Adaptation as Musical Translation

"Translation" as a Model

Translation on the Small Scale

Overcoming Syntactic Challenges

Functional Constancy

Beyond the Excerpt

A Haydn Chorus's New-Created Worlds

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Otto E. Albrecht Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780190842796

0190842792

OCLC:

1147938565

Publisher Number:

99985819630