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.