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Frontier Figures

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by Beth E. Levy


  Ridge, Martin, ed. Frederick Jackson Turner: Wisconsin's Historian of the Frontier. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1986.

  Robertson, Marta Elaine. “‘A gift to be simple': The Collaboration of Aaron Copland and Martha Graham in the Genesis of Appalachian Spring.” PhD diss., University of Michigan, 1992.

  Robertson, Marta, and Robin Armstrong. Aaron Copland: A Guide to Research. New York: Routledge, 2001.

  Rogin, Michael. Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996.

  Rosenfeld, Paul. “Aaron Copland's Growth.” New Republic, 27 May 1931, 46-47.

  ———. “Current Chronicle: Copland-Harris-Schuman.” Musical Quarterly 25 (1939): 372-81.

  ———. “Folksong and Culture-Politics.” Modern Music 17 (October-November 1939): 18-24.

  ———. “Harris before the World.” New Republic, February 1934, 364-65.

  ———. An Hour with American Music. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1929.

  ———. “Tragic and American.” New Republic, November 1934, 147.

  Rosenstiel, Léonie. Nadia Boulanger: A Life in Music. New York: W. W. Norton, 1982.

  Rundell, Walter, Jr. “The West as Operatic Setting.” In Probing the American West, edited by K. Ross Toole, John Alexander Carroll, Robert M. Utley, and A. R. Mortensen, 49-61. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1962.

  Saminsky, Lazare. Living Music of the Americas. New York: Howell, Soskin and Crown, 1949.

  ———. Music of the Ghetto and the Bible. New York: Bloch Publishing, 1934.

  Sandburg, Carl. The American Songbag. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1927.

  ———. Poems of the Midwest. Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1946.

  Sanford-Tefft, Lulu. Little Intimate Stories of Charles Wakefield Cadman. Hollywood: David Graham Fischer Corporation, 1926.

  Savage, William W., Jr. The Cowboy Hero: His Image in American History and Culture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979.

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  Sheehan, Perley Poore. Hollywood as a World Center. Hollywood Citizen Press, 1924.

  Shull, Paul, ed. “Music in the West.” Journal of the West 22 (1983): 4-9; “Music in the West: II.” Journal of the West 28 (1989): 3-51.

  Siegel, Marcia B. The Shapes of Change: Images of American Dance. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.

  Slonimsky, Nicolas. “From the West Composer New to Bostonians.” Boston Evening Transcript, 24 January 1934, pt. 1: 7, col. 1.

  ———. Perfect Pitch: A Life Story. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

  ———. “Roy Harris.” Musical Quarterly 33 (1947): 17-37.

  Slotkin, Richard. Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.

  Smith, Catherine Parsons. Making Music in Los Angeles: Transforming the Popular. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007.

  Smith, Catherine Parsons, and Cynthia S. Richardson. Mary Carr Moore, American Composer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1987.

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  Smith, Julia. Aaron Copland: His Work and Contribution to American Music. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1955.

  Smith, Moses. “Music for the Radio.” Boston Evening Transcript, 26 July 1937, 8.

  Snyder, Robert L. Pare Lorentz and the Documentary Film. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968.

  Speaking of Roy Harris. Los Angeles: Friends of Roy Harris: University of California, Los Angeles, 12 February 1966.

  Spizizen, Louise. “Johana and Roy Harris: Marrying a Real Composer.” Musical Quarterly 77 (1993): 579-606.

  Stanfield, Peter. Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

  Starr, Lawrence. “Copland's Style.” Perspectives of New Music 19, nos. 1-2 (1980-81): 69-89.

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  Stegner, Wallace. Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West. New York: Penguin Books, 1992.

  Stehman, Dan. Roy Harris: A Bio-bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1991.

  ———. Roy Harris: An American Musical Pioneer. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984.

  ———. “The Symphonies of Roy Harris: An Analytical Study of the Linear Materials and of Related Works.” PhD diss., University of Southern California, 1973.

  Sternfeld, Frederick W. “Copland as Film Composer.” Musical Quarterly 37 (April 1951): 161-75.

  Stevenson, Robert. “Roy Harris at UCLA: Neglected Documentation.” Inter-American Music Review 2, no. 1 (1979): 59-73.

  Stoner, Thomas. “‘The New Gospel of Music': Arthur Farwell's Vision of Democratic Music in America.” American Music 9 (1991): 183-208.

  Stoney, George. “George Stoney on The Plow and The River.” “The Plow That Broke the Plains” and “The River.” Post-Classical Ensemble, directed by Angel Gil-Ordóñez. Naxos DVD 2.110521.

  Strassburg, Robert. Roy Harris: A Catalog of His Works. Los Angeles: California State University, 1973.

  Struble, John Warthen. The History of American Classical Music: MacDowell through Minimalism. New York: Facts on File, 1995.

  Study Guide: “The Plow That Broke the Plains” U.S. Documentary Film. Washington, DC: United States Film Service, Division of the National Emergency Council, 1938.

  Swan, Howard. Music in the Southwest, 1825-1950. New York: Da Capo, 1977.

  Taruskin, Richard. The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009.

  Taylor, Davidson. “Tomorrow's Broadcast.” North American Review 241 (March 1936): 49-56.

  ———. “Why Not Try the Air?” Modern Music 15 (January-February 1938): 86-91.

  Thomson, Virgil. American Music since 1910. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.

  ———. Selected Letters of Virgil Thomson. Edited by Tim Page and Vanessa Weeks Page. New York: Summit Books, 1988.

  ———. “Swing Music.” Modern Music 13 (May-June 1936): 12-17.

  ———. Virgil Thomson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.

  ———. Virgil Thomson: A Reader, Selected Writings 1924-1984. Edited by Richard Kostelanetz. New York: Routledge, 2002.

  Tibbetts, John C., ed. Dvoák in America, 1892-1895. Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 1993.

  Tischler, Barbara L. An American Music: The Search for an American Musical Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

  Toliver, Brooks. “Eco-ing in the Canyon: Ferde Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite and the Transformation of Wilderness.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 57 (2004): 325-67.

  Tommasini, Anthony. Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.

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  Trachtenberg, Alan. Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004.

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  Tsianina [Blackstone]. Where Trails Have Led Me, 2nd ed. Burbank, CA: T. Blackstone, 1970.

  Tuthill, Burnet C. “Leo Sowerby.” Musical Quarterly 24 (1938): 249-64.

  Ussher, Bruno David, ed. Who's Who in Music and Dance in Southern California. Hollywood: Bureau of Musical Research, 1933.

  Utley, Robert. Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.

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  ———. The Sounds of Place: Music and the American Cultural Landscape. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003.

  Wade, Stephen. “The Route of ‘Bonyparte's Retreat': From ‘Fiddler Bill' Stepp to Aaron Copland.” American Music 18 (2000): 343-69.

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  White, John. Git Along, Little Dogies: Songs and Songmakers of the American West. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975.

  White, John, and George Shackley. The Lonesome Cowboy. New York: George T. Worth, 1930.

  White, Richard. “It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own”: A New History of the American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.

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  Wu, Arlouine Goodjohn. Constance Eberhart: A Musical Career in the Age of Cadman. NOA monograph series, vol. 4. (Oxford, MS): National Opera Association, 1983.

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  INDEX

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  Adams, Ansel

  African American music. See also jazz

  African Americans, images of

  African American spirituals

  agricultural technology

  American exceptionalism

  American Pageantry Association

  Anglo-Americans, images of. See also pioneers, images of; whiteness

  Antheil, George

  anthropology

  anti-Semitism

  Apthorp, William

  Archaeological Institute of America

  Aryanism

  Atlas, Allan

  Autry, Gene

  Bach, Johann Sebastian

  Bacon, Ernst; and conservation; on folk song; musical language; on pioneering; on regionalism; on urban or commercial threats

  Bacon, Ernst, works: Remembering Ansel Adams; Spirits and Places; From These States (Gathered Along Unpaved Roads); A Tree on the Plains

  Baker, Theodore

  Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo

  Bandelier, Adolph

  Barlow, Samuel L. M.

  Bartók, Béla

  Bauer, Marion

  Beach, Amy

  Beckerman, Michael

  Beethoven, Ludwig van

  Behymer, L. E.

  Belasco, David

  Bel Geddes, Norman

  Bennett, Robert Russell

  Berger, Arthur

  Bergman, Elizabeth. See Crist, Elizabeth Bergman

  Berkeley, George

  Berlioz, Hector

  Bernstein, Leonard

  Bialosky, Marshall

  Bick, Sally

  Billy the Kid

  Blackstone, Tsianina Redfeather. See Tsianina

  Blitzstein, Marc

  Bloch, Ernest

  blues

  Bohemian Club (San Francisco)

  Bonney, William H. See Billy the Kid

  Boone, Daniel

  Boston Opera Company

  Boston Symphony Orchestra

  Boulanger, Nadia

  Bowles, Paul

  Braslau, Sophie

  Britten, Benjamin

  Broadway

  Brown, George Murray

  Bruckner, Anton

  Buffalo Bill. See Cody, Buffalo Bill

  Buffalo Bill's Wild West

  Bureau of American Ethnology

  Burns, Walter Noble: Saga of Billy the Kid

  Burr, Jessica

  Burton, Frederick

  Cadman, Charles Wakefield; and community music; and cowboys; and exoticism; and Farwell; on Foss; and Hispanic music; and Hollywood; ill health; and Indian music; and Indians; musical language; sexuality

  Cadman, Charles Wakefield, works: “At Dawning,”; The Bells of Capistrano; Daoma; Father of Waters; Four American Indian Songs; From Hollywood; “From the Land of the Sky-blue Water,” (see also Four American Indian Songs); From Wigwam and Tepee; “God Smiled Upon the Desert (A California Poppy Song),”; The Golden Trail; Hollywood Extra; Idealized Indian Themes; Incidental music for the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Incidental music for Thunderbird; Indian Love Charm; June on the Niobrara; La Cubanita; The Land of the Misty Water (see Daoma); Lelawala: The Maid of Niagara; Meet Arizona; “The Moon Drops Low,” (see also Four American Indian Songs); Naranoka; “The New Trail,”; The Pageant of Colorado; “Pennsylvania” Symphony; Prairie Sketches; Ramala (see Daoma); Shanewis (The Robin Woman); South in Sonora; The Sunset Trail; Three Songs of the Westex; Trail Pictures; “The Tryst,”; “Wah-wah-taysee (Little Fire-fly),”

  Cage, John

  Calhern, Louis

  Calhoun, Virginia

  California; and ancient Greece; Hispanic presence; proximity to Asia

  California Society of Composers. See Society of Native American Composers

  captivity narrative

  Carpenter, John Alden

  Carr, Sarah Pratt

  Carson, Kit

  Carter, Artie Mason

  Carter, Elliott

  Carter, John Franklin

  Cather, Willa; My Ántonia

  Chadwick, George Whitefield

  Chalmers, Thomas

  Chanler, Theodore

  character types: bandits or outlaws; captives; cowgirls; farmers or settlers; gunfighter; Hispanic; miners; missionaries; scouts; shepherds; sheriffs; tourists. See also cowboys, images of; Indians, images of; pioneers, images of

  Chávez, Carlos

  Chicago Columbian Exposition

  Chicago Symphony

  Chinese, images of

  Civil War [U.S.]

  Cleveland Symphony

  Clurman, Harold

  Cody, Buffalo Bill

  Cohn, Arthur

  Cold War

  Colorado College

  Columbia Broadcasting System

  Columbus, Christopher

  communism

  community music movement. See also pageantry

  Composers' Collective

  Composers' Forum-Laboratory

  conquest, military

  conquest, of Nature. See also pioneers, images of

  conquest, romantic

  Converse, F. S.

  Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague


  Cooper, James Fenimore

  Copland, Aaron; and African American music; and Anglo-Americana; biography; and cowboys; as craftsman; as eclectic; and film; and folk song; and Harris; and Hispanic music; and Indian music; and jazz; as Jewish; and leftist politics; and Mexico; as modernist; musical language; and pioneer imagery; as populist; reception; and sexuality; and Stravinsky; on Thomson; as urban; as urban or cosmopolitan; and World War II

  Copland, Aaron, works: Appalachian Spring; “The Ballade of Ozzie Powell,”; Billy the Kid; The City; The Cummington Story; El Salón México; Fanfare for the Common Man; Four Piano Blues; Grohg; “Into the Streets May First,”; Of Mice and Men; Music for Radio: Saga of the Prairie; Music for the Theatre; North Star; Our Town; Passacaglia; Piano Concerto; Piano Variations; Prairie Journal (see Music for Radio: Saga of the Prairie); Radio Serenade (see Music for Radio: Saga of the Prairie); The Red Pony; Rodeo; Rondino; The Second Hurricane; Short Symphony; Symphonic Ode; Symphony for Organ and Orchestra; Symphony no. 3; The Tender Land; Vitebsk (Study on a Jewish Theme); The Young Pioneers

  Corelli, Archangelo

  cowboys

  cowboys, images of

  cowboy song; as Anglo or Celtic

  Cowell, Henry

  Cox, Sidney Thurber

  Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John de

  Crist, Elizabeth Bergman

  Culbertson, Evelyn Davis

  Curtis, Edward

  Curtis, Natalie

  Custer, General George Armstrong

  Damon, S. Foster

  Davison, Archibald

  Debussy, Claude

  Delius, Frederick

  de Mille, Agnes: American Street; Rodeo

  de Mille, Cecil B.

  Denby, Edwin

  Densmore, Frances

  Dickinson, Emily

  Dillon, Fannie Charles

  dime novel

  d'Indy, Vincent

  Dixon, Maynard

  documentary film

  Downes, Olin

  drone. See ostinato or drone figures

  Duffey, Beula. See Harris, Johana

  Dukas, Paul

  Dust Bowl

  dust storms

  Dvoák, Antonín; “New World” Symphony

  Earle, Ferdinand

  Eastman School of Music

  Eberhart, Nelle Richmond

  Eberhart family

  echo effects

  eclecticism

 

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