Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, Volume 1: Resonances, 1836-1849University of Chicago Press, 1995 - 746 pages In Strong on Music Vera Brodsky Lawrence uses the diaries of lawyer and music lover George Templeton Strong as a jumping-off point from which to explore every aspect of New York City's musical life in the mid-nineteenth century. Formerly a concert pianist, Vera Brodsky Lawrence spent the last third of her life as a historian of American music (she died in 1996). She was editor of The Piano Works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and The Complete Works of Scott Joplin. On Volume 1: "A marvelous book. There is nothing like it in the literature of American music."—Harold C. Schonberg, New York Times Book Review On Volume 2: "A monumental achievement."—Victor Fell Yellin, Opera Quarterly |
Contents
Rondo | xxvii |
18361839 | 3 |
2 | 32 |
1840 | 63 |
Obbligato | 94 |
1841 | 108 |
4 | 131 |
1842 | 146 |
8 | 328 |
1846 | 359 |
9 | 399 |
1847 | 422 |
II | 537 |
1849 | 562 |
Obbligato | 572 |
Appendix 1 | 619 |
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