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George Frederick Bristow By Katherine K. Preston. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2020.

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George Frederick Bristow By Katherine K. Preston. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2020.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2022

Kyle Gann*
Affiliation:
Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, USA

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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for American Music

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References

1 These accounts are entertainingly documented in a rare and wild page-turner of historical musicology in Yellin, Victor Fell's, “Bristow's Divorce,” American Music 12, no. 3 (Autumn 1994): 229–54CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Shadle, Douglas W., Orchestrating the Nation: The Nineteenth-Century American Symphonic Enterprise (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)Google Scholar.

3 Preston cites some interesting evidence, though, that Bristow was urging African-American songs as sources for a U.S. style 10 years before Antonín Dvořák's famous 1893 pronouncement, and suggests that this was recognized at the time.

4 Gann, Kyle, Robert Ashley (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2012)Google Scholar.

5 Moreover, in case anyone is looking for the next once-famous American composer to restore to us, I point you to Henry Hadley.