Gate crashers: trombones in Handel’s Messiah
Merry Christmas! Although Messiah is, strictly speaking, not Christmas music, having been composed for Lenten performances, today we most often …Read the Rest
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Popular song in America, part 6: Stephen Collins Foster
I can remember as a child reading of Stephen Foster as the “American Schubert.” That is absurd. His knowledge of …Read the Rest
Popular song in America, part 5: some early American song-writers
Nineteenth-century America’s greatest song writer, Stephen Collins Foster, owed much to a variety of musical influences. Earlier posts in this …Read the Rest
My 10 favorite lesser-known Christmas pieces
I have been enjoying my Christmas records for the past couple of weeks. I have also seen plenty of online …Read the Rest
Popular song in America, part 4: the influence of German songs
German-speaking people began to emigrate to America in modest numbers as early as the late seventeenth century. Generally, they got …Read the Rest
Popular song in America, part 3: minstrel shows and plantation songs
As was the case with many things popular in America, black characters played by whites on stage originated in England. …Read the Rest
Popular song in America, part 2: the influence of Italian opera
At first glance, the performance of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) in New York on November …Read the Rest
Popular song in America, part 1: from colonial times to ca. 1825
It never ceases to amaze me how many books on American popular song begin their coverage somewhere in the twentieth …Read the Rest
Beloved Christmas carols: The Christmas Song
In a web environment, someone can write an article or record a song and put it online immediately. Conventional publishers …Read the Rest
Did Sax invent the saxhorn?
(Saxhorns are the top row of instruments in this 1872 advertisement) In1845, French military music reached the bottom of a …Read the Rest
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