Sources for the Reevaluation of George Frederick Root's Career: The Autobiography & A Secular Cantata

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dc.contributor.advisorWarfield, Patrick Ren_US
dc.contributor.authorBrown, Caitlin Elizabethen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMusicen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-28T06:59:12Z
dc.date.available2013-06-28T06:59:12Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractMusic scholarship has failed to fully assess the impact of the American composer George Frederick Root beyond his work in the church, classroom, and home. Most famous for composing "The Battle Cry of Freedom" and acting as music education pioneer Lowell Mason's associate, Root's other contributions to American music are often overlooked, particularly his body of secular cantatas for amateur choirs. This paper examines the commonly relayed biography of Root, Root's place in American historiography, and the advantages of examining his own autobiography. Finally, this paper presents a case study of The Haymakers and its possible place in future studies of Root. By better examining his career, we see that George Frederick Root was a typical nineteenth-century American man and that he was also a composer notable for his ability to serve the musical needs of his audience. Root pioneered large-scale choral works targeted at amateur performers with his secular cantatas and, consequently, served a wider swath of American performers and listeners.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/14130
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMusicen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAmerican studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledGender studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledamericanen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledautobiographyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledGeorge F. Rooten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHaymakersen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmusicen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsecular cantataen_US
dc.titleSources for the Reevaluation of George Frederick Root's Career: The Autobiography & A Secular Cantataen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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