Michael J Broyles

Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices

Music of the Highest Class: Elitism and Populism in Antebellum Boston

Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music

Yankee Musician in Europe No. 110: The 1837 Journals of Lowell Mason

The Emergence & Evolution of Beethoven's Style

Beethoven: The Emergence and Evolution of Beethoven's Heroic Style

Piano Works, 1913-1990 (Dover Music for Piano)

"There is a remarkable force to all of Ornstein's music—a burst of energy, a frenzy and a passion which are ever refreshing to the tired musical ear."—George GershwinThis original anthology is the first single-volume edition of the works of American avant-garde composer Leo Ornstein (1893–2002). Cha...

Beethoven in America [Hardcover] [2011] (Author) Michael Broyles

Beethoven in America [Hardcover] [2011] Michael Broyles

Yankee Musician in Europe (Studies in Music (University of Rochester Press))

By the middle of the nineteenth century Lowell Mason (1792-1872) was probably the most famous native-born musician in America. Concentrating almost exclusively on vocal music, he built a spectacular reputation as a choir director and teacher. He published many collections of sacred music that sold i...

Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music

From colonial times to the present, American composers have lived on the fringes of society and defined themselves in large part as outsiders. In this stimulating book Michael Broyles considers the tradition of maverick composers and explores what these mavericks reveal about American attitudes towa...

Beethoven in America

Beethoven permeates American culture. His image appears on countless busts and coffee mugs; his music is heard in movie scores, TV soundtracks, commercials, and pop songs; he is Schroeder’s god in Peanuts and Chuck Berry’s freaked-out parent in "Roll over Beethoven." In this book, Michael Broyles se...

Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices

Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices traces the meteoric rise and heretofore inexplicable disappearance of the Russian-American, futurist-anarchist, pianist-composer from his arrival in the United States in 1906 through a career that lasted nearly a century. Outliving his admirers and ...

Votaries of Apollo: The St. Cecilia Society and the Patronage of Concert Music in Charleston, South Carolina, 1766-1820.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Southern History

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