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Frontier Figures

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by Beth E. Levy


  Edson, Charles Farwell

  Einstein, Alfred

  Eisenstein, Sergei

  Elkus, Albert

  Elwell, Herbert

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  emigre composers

  Engel, Carl

  Erickson, Ron

  ethnography. See anthropology

  Evans, Walter

  Ewen, David

  exoticism

  fanfare figures

  farm machinery; harvesters, threshing; plow; tractor; windmill

  Farm Security Administration

  Farwell, Arthur; and African American music; on ancient Greece; anti-European sentiments; and Cadman; and community music; and cowboys; democratic rhetoric; family; and folk music; and Harris; on Herbert; and Hispanic music; and Indian music; Indian Music Talk; and Indian ritual; musical language; and nationalism; pageants; spirituality and intuition; thoughts on race; transcription and ethnography; on urban or commercial threats; on western audiences; and western landscapes; western tours

  Farwell, Arthur, works: American Indian Melodies; “Bird Dance Song of the Cahuillas,” (see also Folk-Songs of the West and South); Caliban by the Yellow Sands; California: A Masque of Music; Cartoon, or Once Upon a Time Recently; Chant of Victory; “Dawn,”; Domain of Hurakan; “Domain of Hurakan,”; The Evergreen Tree; First Pageant Suite; Folk-Songs of the West and South; From Mesa and Plain; Grail Song; The Hako; Impressions of the Wa-Wan Ceremony of the Omahas; “Indian Fugue-Fantasia,”; In the Tetons; Joseph and His Brethren; “La Cara Negra,”; “The Lone Prairee,” (see also Folk-Songs of the West and South); The March of Man; Mountain Songex; “Navaho War Dance No. 1,”; “Navaho War Dance No. 2,” (see also From Mesa and Plain); “Old Man's Love Song,” (see also American Indian Melodies); Owasco Memories; “Pawnee Horses,” (see also From Mesa and Plain); Piano Quintet; Pilgrimage Play; “Prairie Miniature,” (see also From Mesa and Plain); Spanish Songs of Old California; “Symbolistic Study no. 6—Mountain Vision,”; Three Indian Songs

  fascism

  Faulkner, William

  Federal Music Project

  Ferber, Edna

  fiesta

  Fillmore, John Comfort

  film industry. See also Hollywood

  Fine, Irving

  Fine, Irving and Verna

  Finney, Ross Lee

  flageolet

  Fletcher, Alice C.

  Floyd, Carlisle

  folk music; and American music; and “authenticity,”; collections; urban or commercial threats. See also cowboy song; Hispanic music

  Forbes, Ira

  Ford, John

  Foss, Lukas; on Copland; musical language; on Sandburg

  Foss, Lukas, works: American Cantata; American Landscapes; The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County; The Prairie

  Foster, Stephen

  French, Jared

  frontier: and American exceptionalism; between civilization and wilderness; closing of; mythology of; and progress; as site for cultural conflict or exchange; and technology; Turner on. See also westward expansion

  Fuller, Donald

  Garland, Hamlin

  Gatti-Casazza, Giulio

  Gentle, Alice

  German music: as “mainstream,”

  Gershwin, George; Girl Crazy; Porgy and Bess

  Giannini, Vittorio

  Gilbert, Henry

  Gilman, Lawrence

  Gilmore, Patrick

  Goetzmann, William

  Goldberg, Isaac

  Goldmark, Rubin

  Goodman, Benny

  Gould, Morton

  Graham, Martha

  Grainger, Percy

  Great Depression

  Greece, ancient

  Grieg, Edvard

  Grofé, Ferdem; Grand Canyon Suite

  Grosser, Maurice

  Gruenberg, Louis

  Grunn, Homer

  habañera rhythms. See also tango

  Hadley, Henry

  Hale, Philip

  Handel, George Frideric

  Hanson, Howard

  Harper, Paul Kennedy

  Harris, Johana (Beula Duffey)

  Harris, Roy; and African American music; on the American character; as Anglo; as “autodidact,”; “autogenesis,”; biography; as childlike; closeness to nature; and Copland; and cowboy imagery; and cowboy song; on creativity; education; and farming; and Farwell; and folk song; on form; and masculinity; musical language; and Oklahoma; and organicism; and pioneers; and the popular audience; reception; on urban or commercial threats; as “white hope,”

  Harris, Roy, works: Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight; American Ballads; American Portrait; American Portrait: 1929; Bicentennial Symphony 1976; Cimarron; Concerto for Piano, Clarinet and String Quartet; Fantasy for Trio and Chorus; Farewell to Pioneers; Folk Fantasy for Festivals; Folksong Symphony; “Gettysburg” Symphony; Kentucky Spring; One Tenth of a Nation; Piano Quintet; Symphony 1933; Symphony no. 3; Symphony no. 5; When Johnny Comes Marching Home

  Harte, Bret

  Harvard University

  Haskell, Alice

  Henderson, William J.

  Herbert, Victor; Natoma; treatment of Indian themes

  Hertz, Alfred

  Hiawatha. See Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

  Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

  High Noon

  Hill, Edward Burlingame

  Hindemith, Paul

  Hispanic music

  Hoffmann, E. T. A

  Hollywood. See also film industry

  Hollywood as a World Center

  Hollywood Bowl

  Holm, Hanya

  Horgan, Paul

  Horowitz, Joseph

  Horst, Louis

  Houseman, John

  Howard, John Tasker

  Hubbard, W. L.

  Hubbs, Nadine

  Hughes, Langston

  Humperdinck, Engelbert

  Huneker, James

  Hurd, Peter

  Hurwitz, Leo

  hymns. See also Thomson, Virgil

  Indianism

  Indian music; and American music; double drumbeat; melodies or songs; rhythm

  Indians; and American boyhood; betrayal by whites; closeness to nature; removal of; ritual and myth

  Indians, images of; as noble savages; as primitive; as superstitious; as vanishing race; as warriors

  Ives, Charles

  Jackson, Helen Hunt: Ramona

  jazz

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Johnson, Jack

  Johnson, Nunnally

  Johnson-Reed Act

  Joyce, James

  Kamp, Adelaida

  Kirk, Edgar Lee

  Kirkpatrick, John

  Kirstein, Lincoln

  Klein, Kerwin Lee

  Koegel, John

  Kolodin, Irving

  Koussevitzky, Serge

  Krehbiel, Henry

  Kreider, Noble

  Kunits, Luigi von

  La Flesche, Francis

  Lambord, Benjamin

  land runs

  Lang, Benjamin

  Langdon, William Chauncy

  Lange, Dorothea

  Larkin, Margaret: Singing Cowboy

  Leadbelly

  League of Composers

  Lears, H. T. Jackson

  leftist politics

  Leoni, Franco

  Lerner, Neil

  Les Six

  Levant, Oscar

  Lewis, Sinclair

  Lieurance, Thurlow

  Limerick, Patricia

  Loeffler, Charles Martin

  Lomax, Alan

  Lomax, John; Cowboy Songs and Frontier Ballads

  Lomax, John and Alan: Our Singing Country

  Lone Ranger

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth; Song of Hiawatha

  Loomis, Harvey Worthington

  Lorentz, Pare; and Hollywood; on Thomson

  Loring, Eugene

  Louisiana Purchase

  Loy, Myrna

  Lummis, Charles
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br />   MacDowell, Edward; “Indian” Suite

  MacDowell Colony

  MacKaye, Percy

  MacKaye, Steele

  Mahler, Gustav

  Manifest Destiny

  Martin, John

  Marx, Leo

  Mason, Daniel Gregory

  masques. See pageantry

  mass media. See also film industry; radio

  McCann, Richard D.

  McCarty, William Henry. See Billy the Kid

  McCormack, John

  McPhee, Colin

  Meckna, Michael

  Mellers, Wilfrid

  Melville, Herman

  Mencken, H. L.

  Mendel, Arthur

  Merman, Ethel

  Metropolitan Opera

  Metzer, David

  Michigan State University

  Miles, Peter

  Milestone, Lewis

  Milhaud, Darius

  Miller, Glenn

  Millichap, Joseph

  Mills, Charles

  minstrel show

  Mitchum, Robert

  modernism

  Montoya, Procopio

  Moore, Douglas; Giants in the Earth

  Moore, MacDonald Smith

  Moore, Mary Carr; Narcissa

  Mormons

  Morton, Lawrence

  Moyle, Gilbert

  music clubs

  Music Teachers National Association

  Mydans, Carl

  Nancarrow, Conlon

  nationalism

  Native Americans. See Indians

  nativism

  Nature; conquest of; conservation and ecology; and Native Americans; natural resources; outdoor performance; as source of strength or inspiration; weather. See also pastoral imagery

  Negro melodies. See African American spirituals

  neoclassicism

  Nevin, Arthur; Poia

  New Deal

  New York City World's Fair

  Nielsen, Alice

  Nordica, Lillian

  nostalgia

  Nugent, Frank

  Oberammergau Passion Play

  octatonic material

  Office of War Information

  Oja, Carol

  Okies

  operetta

  Oregon Trail

  organicism

  orientalism

  Ormandy, Eugene

  Os-Ke-Non-Ton

  ostinato or drone figures

  outdoor performance

  outlaw: images of

  Out West

  Padget, Martin

  pageantry. See also community music movement

  Paine, John Knowles

  Parker, Charlie

  Parker, Henry Taylor

  Parker, Horatio

  Parkman, Francis

  Pasadena, Composer's Fellowship of

  pastoral imagery; and the “machine in the garden,”; and the “middle landscape,”; and military associations; and religious associations

  pastoral music; woodwind timbres. See also echo effects; ostinato or drone figures

  pentatonic

  Perison, Harry

  Perlis, Vivian

  phonograph. See recording technology

  pioneers, images of; as Anglo; as Protestant

  Pisani, Michael

  Piston, Walter

  plow. See farm machinery Plow That Broke the Plains, The. See Thomson, Virgil

  Pocahontas

  Pollack, Howard

  Pony Express

  Popular Front

  populism

  Powell, Ozie

  pow wow

  progress, rhetoric of

  propaganda

  Puccini, Giacomo; Fanciulla del West

  Puritans

  racial determinism

  radio

  ragtime

  railroads

  Raksin, David

  Randall, Annie

  RCA Victor Records

  real estate market

  recording technology

  Redding, Joseph Deighn

  Redfeather, Tsianina. See Tsianina

  Red Pony, The. See Copland, Aaron; Steinbeck, John

  Remington, Frederic

  Resettlement Administration

  Revueltas, Silvestre

  Richardson, Cynthia S.

  River, The. See Thomson, Virgil

  rodeo

  Rogers, Roy

  Rogin, Michael

  Rölvaag, Ole

  Roos, Charles and Juanita

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

  Roosevelt, Theodore

  Rosenfeld, Paul

  Rough Riders

  Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

  Rudhyar, Dane

  Ruggles, Carl

  Russell, Charles Marion

  Russell, Henry

  Russian music

  Salsbury, Nate

  Saminsky, Lazare

  Sandburg, Carl; American Songbag; on pioneering

  Santa Fe Opera

  Santa Fe Trail

  Satie, Erik

  Schaffer, Aaron

  Schoenberg, Arnold

  Schuman, William

  Scottsboro Boys

  Seeger, Charles

  Seeger, Ruth Crawford

  Seidl, Anton

  serialism

  Sessions, Roger

  Shackley, George

  Shakespeare, William

  Shaw, Robert

  Sheehan, Perley Poore; Hollywood as a World Center

  Shepherd, Arthur

  Sibelius, Jean

  Siegel, Marcia

  Siegmeister, Elie

  Sierra Club

  silent film

  singing cowboys

  slaughterhouse

  Slonimsky, Nicolas; on Harris

  Slotkin, Richard

  Smith, Catherine Parsons

  Smith, Henry Nash

  Smith, Julia

  Smith, Moses

  Snyder, Robert L.

  socialism

  Society of Native American Composers

  Sonneck, Oscar

  Southwest Society

  Sowerby, Leo; and folk song; musical language

  Sowerby, Leo, works: Cello Concerto; From the Northland; “Monotony,”; Prairie; “Synconata,”

  Spanish-American War

  Spanish-California song. See Hispanic music

  Spencer, Lillian White

  Spengler, Oswald

  Spizizen, Louise

  square dancing

  Stagecoach

  Stegner, Wallace

  Stehman, Dan

  Stein, Gertrude

  Steinbeck, John; The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men; The Red Pony

  Steiner, Ralph

  Stevenson, Christine Wetherill

  Still, William Grant

  Stock, Frederick

  Stokowski, Leopold

  Stoner, Thomas

  Strand, Paul

  Strauss, Richard

  Stravinsky, Igor

  Stryker, Roy

  Sundgaard, Arnold

  Sykes, Gerald

  Tanglewood

  tango. See also habañera rhythms

  Taruskin, Richard

  Taylor, Davidson

  Taylor, Deems

  Tchaikovsky, Piotr

  Terry, Walter

  Theater of the Stars

  Thomson, Virgil; on Copland; and cowboys; and folk song; on Foss; and France; on Harris; and Hispanic music; and hymnody; and jazz; musical language; on urban or commercial threats; and World War I

  Thomson, Virgil, works: Filling Station; Four Saints in Three Acts; Journey to America; “Persistently Pastoral: Aaron Copland,”; Pilgrims and Pioneers; The Plow That Broke the Plains

  Thomson, Virgil, works (continued); The River; Symphony on a Hymn Tune; Wheat Field at Noon

  Thoreau, Henry David

  Tin Pan Alley

  Tiomkin, Dimitri

  Toliver, Brooks

  Tommasini, Anthony

  Tompkins, Jane

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sp; Toscanini, Arturo

  travel and transportation; tourism; westward migration. See also railroads

  Troyer, Carlos

  Tsianina; Where Trails Have Led Me

  Tugwell, Rexford Guy

  Turner, Frederick Jackson

  Tuthill, Burnet

  Twain, Mark

  ultra-modernism. See modernism

  University of California, Berkeley

  Uruchurtu, Rosendo

  Ussher, Bruno David

  Utley, Robert

  Van Dyke, Willard

  Verdi, Giuseppe

  Virgil

  von Glahn, Denise

  Wagner, Richard

  Wallace, Edna Kingsley

  Wallace, Henry

  Warren, Louis

  Watson, Stephen

  Wa-Wan Press. See also Farwell, Arthur

  wax cylinder. See recording technology

  Wayne, John

  Weber, Carl Maria von

  Weill, Kurt

  Weiss, Adolph

  Wertheim, Alma

  West: and ancient Greece; as Christian; and commercial opportunity; contrast with East; contrast with South; as empty or spacious; and ethnic diversity; and freedom; and gender roles; heroes of; as masculine; mixture of fact and fiction; race and ethnicity; as site for good health; as site for play; as site for renewal; as site for self-discovery; and spirituality; and western civilization

  westerns: film; literature

  western settings; California; desert; farm; forest; frontier town; Grand Canyon; Indian village or camp; Midwest; mine or mining camp; mission; mountains; Pacific coast; prairie or plains; pueblos; ranch; reservation; settler's home or cabin; Southwest; trail

  western United States: as arid; distance from Europe; and ethnic diversity; landscapes of; natural resources of; as Pacific Rim; settlement of

  Westminster Choir College

  westward expansion; and the American character; and empire; and slavery; and world history, See also frontier; Manifest Destiny

  White, John

  White, W. L.

  Whiteman, Paul

  whiteness

  Whitman, Marcus and Narcissa

  Whitman, Walt

  whole-tone material

  Wilcox, John C. “Jack,”

  Wilder, Laura Ingalls

  wilderness

  Williamson, John Finley

  Wister, Owen

  Works Progress Administration (WPA)

  World War I

  World War II

  Yowlache, Chief

  Zoellner Quartet

  Zuñi, Ramon

  THE AUTHORS IMPRINT ENDOWMENT FUND

  University of California Press gratefully acknowledges the following generous donors to the Authors Imprint Endowment Fund of the University of California Press Foundation.

  Wendy Ashmore

  Clarence & Jacqueline Avant

  Diana & Ehrhard Bahr

  Nancy & Roger Boas

  Robert Borofsky

  Beverly Bouwsma

  Prof. Daniel Boyarin

  Gene A. Brucker

  William K. Coblentz

  Joe & Wanda Corn

  Liza Dalby

  Sam Davis

  William Deverell

  Frances Dinkelspiel & Gary Wayne

  Ross E. Dunn

 

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