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Article: Bands, Orchestras, and Touring Troupes
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Bands, Orchestras, and Touring Troupes
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Classical Models.
Within the classical arena, the latter decades of the nineteenth century were a period during which there was little new in American music. The most respected American composers of the age
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John Knowles Paine (1839-1906), Dudley Buck (1839-1909), Silas Gamaliel Pratt (1846-1916), Arthur W. Foote (1853-1937), Edward MacDowell (1860-1908), Horatio William Parker (1863-1919), and Mrs. H. H. A. Beach (1867-1944)
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wrote well-received pieces that were derivative of European classicai music, often from earlier periods. MacDowell
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s First Piano Sonata, known as the
Tragica,
typifies the genre: composed in ...
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