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The Complete Book of 1900s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9781538168943. Faucett, Bill F. (2012). George Whitefield Chadwick: The Life and Music of the Pride of New England. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 9781555537746. Finson, Jon W. (1997). The Voices that Are Gone: Themes in Nineteenth-Century American Popular ...
Pages in category "1900 songs" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. A Bird in a Gilded Cage;
Hundreds of voters, who included elected officials, people from the music industry and from the media, teachers, and students, were asked in 2001 by the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) and the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) to choose the top 365 songs (not necessarily by Americans) of the 20th century with historical ...
1900s song stubs (70 P) Pages in category "1900s songs" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
In Alec Wilder's 1972 study, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950, the songwriter and critic lists and ranks the artists he believes belong to the Great American Songbook canon. A composer, Wilder emphasized analysis of composers and their creative efforts in this work.
W. S. B. Matthews' A Hundred Years of Music in America is the first attempt at a history of "popular and the higher music education" in the country; it hails Lowell Mason as the founder of American music. [24] [56] The first African American woman to compose a produced opera is Louisa Melvin Delos Mars, with Leoni, the Gypsy Queen. [57]
In Arizona and Mexico, waila, or chicken scratch, music, had arisen as a fusion of native Tohono O'odham music with German polka and Mexican-American norteño. Jazz, blues, folk, country, and gospel, music from the Caribbean region also briefly became popular during the first half of the twentieth century.
Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" was the best-selling single in the UK during the 20th century. This is a list based on estimated sales between 1952 (the first charts) and the end of 1999. Availability of sales figures, particularly in earlier decades, means that there is a great deal of uncertainty over the accuracy of these estimates. Singles are a type of music release defined by the ...