From the Center for American Music Preservation

Earlier American Composers Series

 



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Earlier American Composers - Survey in Sound, 1759-1919

American Classical Composers on AMP

American Film Composer Tributes on AMP

Essential American Recordings Survey (EARS)

Related Links

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Earlier American Composers: Survey in Sound

"My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free" (1759)

to

"Song of the Marching Men" (1919)






Volume 1: 1759-1805 (16 music examples)

Francis Hopkinson: "My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free" (1759)
Supply Belcher: "Make A Joyful Noise" (1794)
William Billings: "Chester" (1770, 1778, 1786)
William Billings: "David's Lamentation" (1778)
William Billings: "Majesty" (1778)
William Billings: "Charity Anthem" (1794)
Jacob French: "The Heavenly Vision" (1786)
Jacob French: "Dormant" (1802)
Oliver Holden: "Confidence" (1796)
Oliver Holden: "Coronation" (1793)
Oliver Holden: "Mount Vernon" (1803)
Daniel Read: "Windom" (1793)
Daniel Read: "Sherburne" (1785)

Daniel Read: "Greenwich" (1785)
Jeremiah Ingalls: "Northfield" (1801)
Jeremiah Ingalls: "The Young Convert" (1805)






Stephen Collins Foster

 

Volume 2: 1800-1863 (8 music examples)


Oliver Shaw: "Hymn For The New Year" (1819)
Oliver Shaw: "Stoughton Waltz" (1839)
Stephen Foster: "The Pure, The Bright, The Beasutiful" (1863)
Stephen Foster "Over The River" (1863)
Stephen Foster: "What Shall The Harvest Be" (1863)
Stephen Foster: "Choral Harp" (1863)
Stephen Foster: "We Are Coming, Father Abraam, 300, 000 More (1862)
Stephen Foster: Give Us This Day" (1863)



 

    

Volume 3: 1864-1890 (13 music examples, 1 video)


Dudley Buck: "Festival Hymn" (1872) - for World's Peace Jubilee in Boston
Dudley Buck: "Centennial Meditation on Columbia" (1876) - U.S. Centennial
E.A. Jones: Prelude & Fugue in G minor for organ (1878)
E.A. Jones: "Praise Ye The Lord" (1874)
E.A. Jones: "Blessing and Glory" (1874)
E.A. Jones: Trio For Strings (1878)
E.A. Jones: Song Of Our Saviour Cantata: Alto Air & Final Chorus (1881)
E.A. Jones: "Old Stoughton" (1886)
E.A. Jones: String Quartet No. 2 in G minor (1887)
E.A. Jones: "Lord God Of Hosts" (1890)
E.A. Jones: : "O Thou That Hearest Prayer" (1890)
E.A. Jones: "The Lord Is King" (1890)
E.A. Jones: "The Farewell Waltzes" for piano (1874)


Video program: A Tribute to Edwin Arthur Jones (1987)


    

 

Amy Cheney Beach

Volume 4: 1890-1919 (12 music examples) 


Amy Cheney Beach: Piano Quintet in F# minor (3 movements)(1909)
Amy Cheney Beach: "Quoniam to solus" from Grand Mass in Eb (1892)
Charles E. Ives: "Turn Ye" (1890)
Charles E. Ives: "Easter Carol" (1892)
Charles E. Ives: "Crossing The Bar" (1890)
Scott Joplin: "Swipesy (Cake Walk")(1900)
George Whitefield Chadwick: "The Star" from NOEL (1909)
George Whitefield Chadwick: "Chorale" from NOEL (1909)
George Whiefield Chadwick: "Land Of Our Hearts" (1918)
Henry Kimball Hadley: "Song Of The Marching Men" (1919)

 

 

Earlier American Composers: Survey in Sound


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American Composer Tributes

on

American Music Preservation.com

 

 

 

Classical Composers

Samuel Barber

 

 

 

Supply Belcher

 

 

Leonard Bernstein

 

 

William Billings

 

George Whitefield Chadwick

 

 

Aaron Copland

 

Stephen Foster

 



George Gershwin

 

 

Louis Moreau Gottschalk

 

 

 

 

 

Charles Tomlinson Griffes

 

 

Charles Edward Ives

 

 

Edwin Arthur Jones

 

 

Edward MacDowell

 

 

 

George Templeton Strong

 

 

 


Randall Thompson

 

 

 

Film Composers

 

Elmer Bernstein

 

 

 

Jerry Goldsmith

 

 

Bernard Herrmann

 

 

Henry Mancini

 

 

Jerome Moross

 

 

David Raksin

 

 

Miklos Rozsa

 

 

 

Dimitri Tiomkin

 

 

A Centenary Celebration

Franz Waxman

 

 

 

John Williams

 

 


For additional information, see

Film Composers and Soundtracks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

American Recordings Survey


A list of 200 representative recordings
of American music from the 18th century
to the 20th century

To see the complete list, click on this link:

Essential American Recordings Survey (EARS)

 

 

 

 

Related Links
on
American Music Preservation.com

 

 

American Music Recordings Collection (AMRC)

 

Classical Music

American Composers

American Composers Web Poll

American Composer Anniversaries

American Music Timeline


Film Music

Film Composers and Soundtracks

Film Music Review (online magazine)

Popular Songs

American Popular Music Series

America's Top 200 - A History in Songs

Popular Songwriters and The Great American Songbook

New England Music

New England Music Archive (NEMA)

New England Music Series

Singing Stoughton

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

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American Composers Music Series (ACMS)

 

 


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