Annals of Music in America: A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events

Henry Charles LaheeProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 3.0
Word count
489K words
Chapters
49

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English Originals Music American MusicMusical EventsMusic HistoryHistorical CompilationAcademic StudyChronicle HistoryEclectic Reading

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Annals of Music in America: A Chronological Record of Significant Musical EventsAuthor: Lahee, Henry Charles, 1856-1953,Language: English, Class: ML: Music: Literature of music, Release Date: Aug 8, 2009

Editor's review

This book is a chronological record of significant events in American music. Henry Charles Lahee arranges important developments in American musical history year by year, covering concerts, institutions, figures, and works. As a public-domain e-book, its value lies in its reference and instrumental nature: readers can look up entries quickly by year, or read through it to gain an overall impression of American music history. The writing is record-style with high information density, suited as a desk reference for background consultation rather than as a narrative read. It is best used alongside other histories of American music so that scattered entries can be understood within their historical context.

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Reading tips

  1. Read the table of contents and year index first, then focus on the period you care about
  2. Keep a notebook and categorize excerpts by theme (institutions, figures, works)
  3. Read alongside a general history of American music to fill in background and causation
  4. Keep it at hand as a reference for quick verification while writing or listening to music

About the publisher

Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971

Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.

Contents

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FAQ

Is this book a narrative history of music? No. It is a chronological record listing important musical events in order of time; the entries do not form a continuous narrative. It is suited for reference and indexing, not for reading cover to cover as a general history.
What language proficiency is needed to read this book? The original is in English, and the entries use fairly plain wording, so general English reading ability is enough for consultation. If you only need to look up years and events, the language demand is not high; for accurate understanding of details, a good foundation in English reading is recommended.
What time span does this book cover? The materials do not specify an exact end year; consult the actual entries in the book. Before use, check the table of contents and the final year to confirm the coverage, so as not to mistakenly assume it covers all of American music history.

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About the author

Henry Charles Lahee Author · American · 1856–1953

Henry Charles Lahee (1856–1953) was an American music writer, born in London on July 2, 1856, and died in South Carolina in 1953. From 1891 to 1899 he served as secretary of the New England Conservatory of Music, after which he devoted himself to the study and writing of music history. His works consist mainly of musicians' biographies and chronological source materials, including Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday, Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday, and Annals of Music in America. These books record the lives and artistic activities of performers and singers and compile significant musical events in America in chronological order. Factually detailed and clearly organized, they remain useful sources for understanding the musical world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.