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r e Vie WS Orchestrating the Nation: The Nineteenth-Century American Symphonic Enterprise. by Douglas W. Shadle. New York: oxford university press, 2016. iSbN: 978- 0- 19- 935864- 9. Cloth. pp. 344. $55.00. For Orchestrating the Nation, Douglas Shadle compiled information on roughly one hundred symphonies by more than fifty uS composers in the nineteenth century. He admits at the start that this repertoire “failed to launch”; by and large, the symphonies that he studies have not retained their initial popularity, and few people know of them today (3). by contemporaneous symphonic standards, which value continued relevancy over time, the lack of sustained popularity indicates failure. Why write a book about such music? Who would read it? As it turns out, Shadle’s book has garnered the attention of the New York Times, which printed a lengthy review, and Susan mcClary, whose plaudits are on the book’s back cover. both suggest that gaining familiarity with this music calls us to reexamine some long- held assumptions about symphonic history, namely, that the purportedly few existing uS symphonies that were written before 1900 fail to pass cultural or academic muster, and they deserve the dustbins that they currently inhabit. To explain such attitudes,
American Music – University of Illinois Press
Published: May 7, 2019
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