Earlier American Composers - Survey in Sound, 1759-1919
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Essential American Recordings Survey (EARS)
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Earlier American Composers:
Survey in Sound
"My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free" (1759)
to
"Song of the Marching Men" (1919)

Volume 1: 1759-1805 (16 music examples)
Francis Hopkinson: "My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free" (1759)
Supply Belcher: "Make A Joyful Noise" (1794)
William Billings: "Chester" (1770, 1778, 1786)
William Billings: "David's Lamentation" (1778)
William Billings: "Majesty" (1778)
William Billings:
"Charity Anthem" (1794)
Jacob French: "The Heavenly Vision"
(1786)
Jacob French:
"Dormant" (1802)
Oliver Holden:
"Confidence" (1796)
Oliver Holden:
"Coronation" (1793)
Oliver Holden: "Mount Vernon" (1803)
Daniel Read: "Windom" (1793)
Daniel Read:
"Sherburne" (1785)
Daniel Read: "Greenwich" (1785)
Jeremiah Ingalls:
"Northfield" (1801)
Jeremiah Ingalls: "The Young Convert"
(1805)

Stephen Collins Foster
Volume 2: 1800-1863 (8 music examples)
Oliver Shaw: "Hymn For The New Year" (1819)
Oliver Shaw: "Stoughton Waltz" (1839)
Stephen Foster: "The Pure, The Bright, The Beasutiful" (1863)
Stephen Foster
"Over The River" (1863)
Stephen Foster: "What Shall The Harvest Be" (1863)
Stephen Foster: "Choral Harp" (1863)
Stephen Foster: "We Are Coming, Father Abraam, 300, 000 More (1862)
Stephen Foster: Give Us This Day" (1863)
Volume 3: 1864-1890 (13 music examples, 1 video)
Dudley Buck: "Festival Hymn" (1872) - for World's Peace Jubilee in Boston
Dudley Buck: "Centennial Meditation on Columbia" (1876) - U.S. Centennial
E.A. Jones: Prelude & Fugue in G minor for organ (1878)
E.A. Jones: "Praise Ye The Lord" (1874)
E.A. Jones: "Blessing and Glory" (1874)
E.A. Jones: Trio For Strings (1878)
E.A. Jones: Song Of Our Saviour Cantata: Alto Air & Final Chorus (1881)
E.A. Jones: "Old Stoughton" (1886)
E.A. Jones: String Quartet No. 2 in G minor (1887)
E.A. Jones: "Lord God Of Hosts" (1890)
E.A. Jones:
:
"O Thou That Hearest Prayer" (1890)
E.A. Jones: "The Lord Is King" (1890)
E.A. Jones: "The Farewell Waltzes" for piano (1874)
Video program: A Tribute to Edwin Arthur Jones (1987)

Amy Cheney Beach
Volume 4: 1890-1919 (12 music examples)
Amy Cheney Beach: Piano Quintet in F# minor (3 movements)(1909)
Amy Cheney Beach: "Quoniam to solus" from Grand Mass in Eb (1892)
Charles E. Ives: "Turn Ye" (1890)
Charles E. Ives: "Easter Carol"
(1892)
Charles E. Ives: "Crossing The Bar" (1890)
Scott Joplin: "Swipesy (Cake Walk")(1900)
George Whitefield Chadwick: "The Star" from NOEL (1909)
George Whitefield Chadwick: "Chorale" from NOEL (1909)
George Whiefield Chadwick: "Land Of Our Hearts" (1918)
Henry Kimball Hadley: "Song Of The Marching Men" (1919)
Earlier American Composers: Survey in Sound
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Classical Composers

Samuel Barber
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Supply Belcher

Leonard Bernstein

William Billings

George Whitefield Chadwick

Aaron Copland

Stephen Foster

George Gershwin
Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Charles Tomlinson Griffes

Charles Edward Ives

Edwin Arthur Jones

Edward MacDowell

George Templeton Strong

Randall Thompson

Film Composers

Elmer Bernstein

Jerry Goldsmith

Bernard Herrmann

Henry Mancini

Jerome Moross

David Raksin

Miklos Rozsa

Dimitri Tiomkin

Franz Waxman

John Williams
For additional information, see
Film Composers and Soundtracks

American Recordings Survey
A list of 200 representative recordings
of American music from
the 18th century
to
the 20th century
To see the complete list, click on this link:
Essential American Recordings Survey (EARS)