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Amerikanische Musik seit Charles Ives: Interpretationen, Quellentexte, Komponistenmonographien. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 1987. Dvorak in America, 1892-1895. Portland, Or.: Amadeus Press, 1993. A Dvorak chronology / John C. Tibbetts -- Anthony Philip Heinrich: a Bohemian predecessor to Dvorak in the wilds of America / J. Bunker Clark -- Toward the new world / Graham Melville-Mason -- Dvorak's New York : an American street scene / John C. Tibbetts -- Dvorak at the National Conservatory / Emanuel Rubin -- Dvorak's Spillville summer : an American pastoral / John C. Tibbetts -- Dvorak and the American Indian / John Clapham -- "A great and noble school of music" : Dvorak, Harry T. Burleigh, and the African American spiritual / Jean E. Snyder -- Dvorak, Stephen Foster, and American national song / Charles Hamm -- Dvorak's long American reach / Adrienne Fried Block -- Homesick in America: the nostalgia of Antonin Dvorak and Charles Ives / Stuart Feder -- The choral works : Te Deum and The American flag / Nick Strimple. "My country tis of thee" / Jarmil Burghauser -- The dance of Pau-Puk- Keewis and the Song of Chibiabos : reflections on the Scherzo of Dvorak's Symphony "from the new world" / Michael Beckerman -- The F major string quartet, opus 96 / Alan Houtchens -- The E-flat major string quintet, opus 97 / Jan Smaczny -- The Stephen Foster-Antonin Dvorak connection / Deane L. Root -- The biblical songs, opus 99 / Daniel Jacobson -- Dvorak's piano works; Sonatina for violin and piano, opus 100 / John C. Tibbetts -- Thoughts of home : the Cello concerto in B minor, opus 104 / Robert Battey -- The reception of Dvorak's operas in America / David Beveridge -- How I wrote Dvorak in love / Josef Skvorecky -- New soundings : the Dvorak Sesquicentennial Conference and Festival in America / John C. Tibbetts -- The melody lingers on / John C. Tibbetts, Mark Rose, and Steven Richman. Hoffman, Frank W. and William G. Bailey. Arts & Entertainment Fads. Binghampton NY: The Haworth Press, 1990. Hollinger, David A. In the American Province: Studies in the History and Historiography of Ideas. Bloomington: 1985. Inge, Thomas, ed. Handbook of American Popular Culture. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978. James, Henry. Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature; American Writers, English Writers. NY: 1984. Joyce, William J. et al, eds. Printing and Society in Early America. Worcester, MA: 1983. Kavanaugh, Patrick. Spiritual lives of the great composers. Nashville, Tenn.: Sparrow Press, 1992. George Frideric Handel -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- Franz Joseph Haydn -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Ludwig Van Beethoven -- Franz Schubert -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Franz Liszt -- Richard Wagner -- Antonin Dvorak -- Charles Ives -- Igor Stravinsky. Kramer, Lawrence, 1946-. Classical music and postmodern knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Krull, Kathleen. Lives of the musicians: good times, bad times (and what the neighbors thought) San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993. The red priest: Antonio Vivaldi -- Twenty children and 1,200 compositions: Johann Sebastian Bach -- No ordinary baby: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Moodiness and moonlight: Ludwig van Beethoven -- "My dear corpse": Frederic Chopin -- A successful farmer and opera-composer: Giuseppe Verdi -- A different white dress every night: Clara Schumann -- Dear friends and gentle hearts: Stephen Foster -- The checked cotton underwear of Johannes Brahms -- Pulsing and quivering: Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky -- Topsy-turvydom: William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan -- Velvet gentleman: Erik Satie -- The entertainer: Scott Joplin -- He stretched our ears: Charles Ives -- Standing on his head: Igor Stravinsky -- Tender Tyrant: Nadia Boulanger -- Full of splinters: Sergei Prokofiev -- "Great, isn't it?": George Gershwin -- Traveling troubadour: Woody Guthrie. Levine, Lawrence. Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America. Cambridge, MA: 1988. Linderman, Gerald F. Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War. NY: 1987. Lowry, W. McNeil, ed. The Performing Arts and American Society. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1978. McPherson, James. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. The Oxford History of the United States. NY: 1988. Netzer, Dick. The Subsidized Muse: Public Support for the Arts in the United States. Cambridge: 1978. Psychoanalytic explorations in music. Madison, Conn.: International Universities Press, 1990. On the enjoyment of listening to music (1950) / Heinz Kohut and Siegmund Levarie -- Observations on the psychological functions of music (1957) Heinz Kohut -- Some considerations of a psycholanalytic interpretation of music (1971) / Martin L. Nass -- Freud's theory of jokes and the linear- analytic approach to music: a few points in common (1979) / Daniel Sabbeth -- The development of musical ability (1968) / Pinchas Noy -- Transitional tunes and musical development (1970) / Marjorie McDonald -- A psychoanalyst's view of Clara Schumann (1968) / Anna M. Burton -- Charles and George Ives : the veneration of boyhood (1981) / Stuart Feder. On hearing and inspiration in the composition of music (1975) / Martin L. Nass -- Mourning and memorialization through music (1975) / George Pollock -- From creation in art : an ego psychological approach to creativity (1979) / Pinchas Noy -- The nostalgia of Charles Ives : an essay in affects and music (1981) / Stuart Feder -- The development of creative imagination in composers (1984) / Martin L. Nass -- On Beethoven's deafness (1978) / Maynard Solomon -- Johannes Brahms : music, loneliness, and altruism (1985) / Peter Ostwald -- Mourning through music : Gustav Mahler (1974) / George Pollock -- Gustav Mahler : the music of fratricide (1981) / Stuart Feder. Mozart : a study in genius (1951) / Aaron H. Esman -- Mozart's Zoroastran riddles (1985) / Maynard Solomon -- Rossini : a psychoanalytic approach to "The great renunciation" (1965) / Daniel W. Schwartz -- Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck : a creative partnership (1985) / Anna M. Burton - - On falling in love : the mystery of Tristan and Isolde (1986) / Richard D. Chessick. Risenhoover, Morris, and Robert T. Blackburn. Artists as Professors: Conversations with Musicians, Painters, Sculptors. Urbana, IL: 1976. Silverman, Kenneth. A Cultural History of the American Revolution: Painting, Music, Literature, and the Theatre in the Colonies and the United States from the Treaty of Paris to the Inaguration of George Washington, 1763-1789. NY: 1976. Ware, W. Porter and Thaddeus C. Lockard, Jr. P. T. Barnum Presents Jenny Lind: The American Tour of the Swedish Nightingale. Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 1980. Williams, Martin. Hidden in Plain Sight - An Examination of the American Arts. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Words on music from Addison to Barzun. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1990. Elusive art / Jack Sullivan -- Music into words / Jacques Barzun -- Three diatribes / George Bernard Shaw -- Miracle of Gregorian chant / Cecil Gray -- Purcell / Charles Burney -- Roots of Bach's art / Albert Schweitzer -- Bach the colorist / Paul Rosenfeld -- Capaciousness of Handel / Romain Rolland -- Messiah for heathens / George Bernard Shaw -- Scarlatti's keyboard quirks / Glenn Gould -- Enchantment of Rameau / Claude Debussy -- Clarity of Hayden / H.L. Mencken -- At the thought of Mozart / Aaron Copland -- Mozart's noisy ghost / Leigh Hunt -- Erotic Mozart / Charles Rosen -- Mozart's operas, Beethoven's Fidelio / Thomas Love Peacock. Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart / Virgil Thomson -- Weber and the fantastic / Hector Berlioz -- Beethoven and the sublime / E.T.A. Hoffmann -- Beethoven / Richard Wagner -- On the Beethoven Ninth / Donald Francis Tovey, George Bernard Shaw -- Rossini and Meyerbeer / Heinrich Heine -- Schubert / H.L. Mencken -- On discoversing Schubert's Last symphony / Robert Schumann -- Schubert's C-major quintet / Desmond Shawe-Taylor -- Donizzetti's operas / Henry Chorley -- Berlioz the revolutionary / Romain Rolland -- Schumann the lyricist / Philip Hale -- On Chopin's piano music / Robert Schumann, Franz List -- Literature in Liszt's mind and work / Jacques Barzun -- Significance of Wagner / George Eliot -- Music and words in Wagner / George Bernard Shaw. Overture to Die meistersinger / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Brahms "Eroica" / Eduard Hanslick -- Moussorgsky's Vision of childhood / Claude Debussy -- Tchaikovsky / James Huneker -- Italian opera of today / W.J. Henderson -- Gilbert and Sullivan / G.K. Chesterton -- Mahler / Leonard Bernstein -- Debussy and the dawn of modernism / Pierre Boulez -- Struggling with Schonberg / Ernest Newman -- Sibelius and the music of the future / Constant Lambert -- Ives the master / Guy Davenport -- Notes on Ravel / Ned Rorem -- Varese / Paul Rosenfeld -- Contemporary voyages / Andrew Porter -- Music as science and sentiment / Hector Berlioz -- Condition of music / Walter Pater -- Opera and realism / Joseph Addison -- Recording angel / Evan Eisenberg -- Matter of time and space / Anthony Burgess. Music and sin / H.L. Mencken -- Why opera? / Jacques Barzun -- Damnation of Faust / Hector Berlioz -- Ramble among the musicians of Germany / Edward Holmes -- Paginini / Leigh Hunt -- Berlioz, Liszt, Chopin / Heinrich Heine -- Mremories of great composers / Ethel Smyth -- Memories of great performers / Gary Graffman -- Conversations with Arrau / Joseph Horowitz -- Perfect pitch / Nicholas Slonimsky -- Religion of the pianoforte / George Bernard Shaw. 10/95, 8/96