1. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
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Chapter Five
“A Language of Feeling” : Cultivating Musical Tastes in Antebellum America
DAY 12 (5 Feb 18)

2. Bands in the US (pre-Civil War)
(Still) Based in military music
Harmoniemusik w/ additions….
Keyed brass, e.g., ophecleide
Valves – c. 1840, e.g., cornet
Saxhorns (invented by Adolphe Sax, 1840s)
Brass bands
Add Percussion – Janissary Instruments

3. Ex. Ophicleide demonstration
Ophecleide & Saxhorns
Ex.The Ophicleide
Ex. Ophicleide demonstration
Ex. Baritone Saxhorn Ex. Alto Saxhorn

4. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
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Exs. Band Music from the Civil War Era (LoC) & Dodworth Saxhorn Band
Civil War Bands
Ex. Helene Schottisch (LG 5.1, p. 117)
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5. Oratorio Societies Boston Handel and Haydn Society (1815)
Amateur Choral Singers
Classical ART Music
Concert as Edification
"At 200, Handel And Haydn Society's Music Remains Unchanged“
Civic Choral Groups - Bach Festival (Winter Park) - Bach Festival (Bethlehem) - Others (Wikipedia list)

6. John Sullivan Dwight Boston Minister, Transcendentalist, etc.
1st (important) Music Critic
Interest in Beethoven
1841 – LvB’s Sym 1
Journal ( )
Music as a social tool - Classical music at top - egalitarian participation - “Republicanism”

7. Classical Music in NYC
Philharmonic Society of New York (1842) - “the advancement of instrumental music” - European immigrant and trained musicians
William Henry Fry ( ) - composer, critic, & promoter of US music - 1st (?) US symphony: Santa Claus Symphony (1853) - Grand operas, including Leonora (1845)
George Bristow ( ) - composer, performer & advocate of US music - symphonic: Symphony No. 2 (1854), etc.
A.P. Heinrich ( )

8. Louis Moreau Gottschalk
MUH Music in the United States
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
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Child prodigy in NOLA
Age 13 to Paris - rejected by Conservatoire - private study
Debut Salle Pleyel (age 16) - praised by Chopin (!) - “Creole” compositions “exotic”
Bamboula, danse des negres, Op. 2 (cf., next slide)
Gottschalk - The Banjo, Fantaisie Grotesque, Op.15 (LG p. 127)
b. 1829, New Orleans; d. 1869, Rio de Janeiro
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9. “The Bamboula” by E.W. Kremble for The Century Magazine (1886)