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acoustics, 2–3, 28, 142n6, 146n34. See also Helmholtz, Hermann von; Schweighauser , Philipp adorno,Theodor, ix, 61, 89, 141n2 african american music. See ragtime; slave music/slave songs american composers, 8, 10, 13, 69, 92, 97, 113, 138 atherton, gertrude, 2, 4, 12, 68–70, 71–77, 78, 80, 89, 91, 122, 128, 137; California novels of, 76–77; as “middlebrow,” 76; and Sybil Sanderson, 150n2 attali, Jacques, 3, 141n3 Awakening, The (Chopin), 5, 12, 16, 38, 39, 40, 48, 51–67, 71, 76, 95, 122, 123, 131, 136, 137. See also Chopin, Kate Barnhart, Bruce, 153n4 Berlin, irving, 93, 100 Biers, Katherine, 153n5 Birnbaum, Michele, 63 blackface minstrelsy, 7, 18, 99–101, 143n18. See also musical theater; ragtime Booth, Mark, 26 Boren, lynda S., 53 Bowlby, Rachel, 14 Brahms, Johannes, 120, 125, 126 Bramen, Carrie Tirado, 49–50, 148n13 Brown, Bill, 14, 16, 30, 32, 146n38 Burleigh, Harry T., 97–98, 101, 102, 112, 154n16 Camastra, nicole, 54 Carmen (Bizet), 122, 123–24, 157n16, 157n17 Carreno,Teresa, 38 Cather, Willa, 2, 4, 12, 68, 70, 77–91, 92, 100, 109, 115, 121, 122, 128, 151n14, 151n16, 152n20–22; “Coming, aphrodite,” 78; diva stories, 77, 78, 152n21; on ending of Song of the Lark, 79, 87; Fremstad, olive, 69; Lucy Gayheart, 78; nordica, lillian, 69; “Peter,” 78; representations of Jews, 88, 152n22; review of “new World” Symphony, 81, 151n17 Chopin, Frédéric, 3, 4, 6, 12, 36, 39, 95, 120, 126, 139, 155n27; american reception of, 37–38, 147n4; in Autobiography of an ExColored Man, 96, 103–4, 106, 110–11; in The Awakening, 51–59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 71; in Damnation of Theron Ware, 40–41, 43– 49, 50, 52; european reception of, 147n4; and gender ideology, 37–39, 71, 120, 138, 147n5; Huneker on, 37–38, 117, 126; versus opera, 71 Chopin, Kate: 2, 4, 5, 12, 38, 39, 48, 51–67, 71, 95, 122; on female artists, 58; as musician , 51, 57, 149n27, 149n31; narrative voice of, 40, 48, 67; as soiree host, 51, 54; and Wagner, 60–61; “Wiser than a god,” 51 Cole, Bob, 93, 100, 113, 154n20, 155n28. See also Johnson, J. Rosamond Cook, nicholas, 147n8 Index 168 index Damnation of Theron Ware, The (Frederic), 12, 38, 39, 40–51, 52, 53, 56, 58, 61, 63, 64, 66–67, 71, 76, 123, 133, 136, 137, 148n11–13 davis, doris, 53, 54 dawson, Melanie, 53–54, 149n27 de Pachmann, Vladimir, 38 denora,Tia, 141n2, 147n8 dimock, Wai Chee, 63 donaldson, Scott, 48, 148n11 douglass, Frederick, 109–10, 137 dreiser,Theodore, ix, 2, 5, 12, 14–36, 40, 43, 48, 76, 95, 115, 136, 142n5, 144n4–5, 144n7, 145n12, 153n9; “Birth and growth of a Popular Song,” 22; and Chicago, 17; and dresser, Paul, 15, 18, 21, 22, 30, 145n12; as Ev’ry Month editor, 12, 15, 18, 20, 21, 22, 50, 144n4; and Jones, Sissieretta, 25; and folk musicality, 24; narrative voice of, 15, 40; and sentimental song, 22, 23–24, 26; struggling to finish Sister Carrie, 35–36; “Whence the Song,” 23 dresser, Paul, 15, 18, 21–26, 30, 33, 146n30 du Bois, W. e. B., 9, 97 duffy, Richard, 35 dunbar, Paul lawrence, 98, 154n12 dvořák, antonin, 101, 120, 151n17, 157n18; and american music, 8–9, 92, 97, 98, 101, 141n3; and Burleigh, Harry T., 98, 154n16; Cather’s review of, 81, 151n17, 154n16; Huneker’s review of, 126; “new World” Symphony, 8–9, 70, 81, 83, 98, 126, 151n17, 152n18, 154n16; in Song of the Lark, 81, 83. See also “new World” Symphony (dvořák) erenberg, lewis, 19 ethnography, 13, 24, 97, 109 Ev’ry Month, 12, 15, 18, 19, 20–22, 50, 144n4. See also Tin Pan alley Farwell, arthur, 8, 9 Fisk Jubilee Singers, 97 Foster, Stephen, 7, 25, 142n17 Frederic, Harold, 2, 12, 38–39, 40–52, 66–67, 71, 76, 95, 122, 136, 148n9, 148n11–12; ambiguous perspective of, 50; musical research for Theron Ware, 40, 46; narrative style of, 48, 49, 61 Fremstad, olive, 69, 151n14 giannone, Richard, 77–78 goldberg, isaac, 25, 146n30 grieg, edvard, 63, 64, 149n27 Harlem Renaissance, 96 Harris, Charles, 19 Helmholtz, Hermann von, 146n34. See also acoustics Henderson, William J., 13, 116–26, 127, 129, 131, 133, 156n10; as music critic, 116– 18, 156n2, 156n7; on Tristan und Isolde, 61; as vocal technique expert, 117, 121, 156n2 Horowitz, Joseph, 5, 19, 60, 68, 70, 116, 145n16, 150ne, 150n5–6 Howley and Haviland, 15, 18, 19. See also Ev’ry...

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