Examines America's early reception to Beethoven, the use of his work and image in American music, movies, stage works, and other forms of popular culture, and r

An illustrated history of America's musical heritage ranges from the earliest examples of Native American traditional song to the innovative sound of contempora

John Sullivan Dwight (1813-1893), the first American critic of art music and the founder of Dwight's Journal of Music, set a new standard for musical criticism