Research Catalog

Title

The Treasure chest : an anthology of contemplative prose / edited by J. Donald Adams.

Publication

New York : E.P. Dutton, 1946.

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Details

Additional Authors

Adams, J. Donald (James Donald), 1891-1968

Description

xxvi, [1] pages, 1 leaf, 402 pages; 18 cm.

Series Statement

A Dutton companion ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Dutton companion ; v. 1.

Subject

• Literature > Collections
• anthologies
• Literature

Genre/Form

Collections.

Note

• "First edition."

Contents

• H. Wiley Hitchcock and American music / Richard Crawford -- Greetings in three-four time / Ross Lee Finney -- For Wiley H / William Schuman -- An early Black concert company : the Hyers Sisters combination / Eileen Southern -- Theodore F. Seward and the Fisk Jubilee Singers / Dena J. Epstein -- On the trail of A guest of honor : in search of Scott Joplin's lost opera / Edward A. Berlin -- Three cultivated choruses on texts set by Caccini in Le nuove musiche / Milton Babbitt -- The Cowells and the written word / Sidney Cowell -- Lunch at Virgil's, tea at the Ambassador (fragment from an unpublished Stravinsky memoir) / Minna Lederman -- Thor Johnson : a personal memoir / Bill Lichtenwanger -- The truth about H. Wiley Hitchcock / Joan Morris and William Bolcom.
• A Hitchcock fanfare / Peter Dickinson -- Isaac L. Rice : What is music? / Siegmund Levarie -- The great piano war of the 1870s / Cynthia Adams Hoover -- Music and musicians at the mountain resorts of Western Virginia, 1820-1900 / Katherine K. Preston -- Bernard Ullman : nineteenth-century American impresario / R. Allen Lott -- Jullien and his Music for the million / John Graziano -- Wiley Hitchcock : two birds / Virgil Thomson -- "Yes me" from Three wordless songs / Noah Creshevsky -- "Ancient music" and the Europeanizing of American psalmody, 1800-1810 / Richard Crawford -- Dvor̆ák, Beach, and American music / Adrienne Fried Block -- Two seductresses : Saint-Saëns's Delilah and Chadwick's Judith / Steven Ledbetter.
• Wiley's waltz / Robert Starer -- Soliloquy for organ / Dorothy Klotzman -- Roy Harris : the story of an Oklahoma composer who was born in a log cabin on Lincoln's birthday / Nicolas Slonimsky -- A conversation with Alfred Frankenstein about Henry Cowell's New music / Rita H. Mead -- Virgil Thomson's Harvard years / Carol J. Oja -- A blues for the ages / Charles Hamm -- Making American music : Henry Hadley and the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra / Susan Feder -- A fractal for Wiley Hitchcock / Charles Dodge -- "The second of July" : a Charles Ives draft considered as an independent work / Wayne D. Shirley -- Dissonant counterpoint revisited : the first movement of Ruth Crawford's String quartet 1931 / Judith Tick -- I can remember / Bruce Saylor.
• Accustomed to the interface : observations on the bibliography of American music / D.W. Krummel -- "Monumenta Americana" revisited / Vivian Perlis -- Prosodic syncopation / Victor Fell Yellin -- Popular music under a TIPEE / William P. Malm -- From the sixpak sonatas / Gordon Mumma -- James Tenney : some historical perspectives / Peter Garland -- An orchestra is born : the story of the American composers orchestra / Francis Thorne -- The edge of imagination / Roger Reynolds.

LCCN

46025014

OCLC

• ocm01068197
• 1068197
• SCSB-588538

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library