If, then, the appreciative epoch along the older lines, is concluded in America, it may be said that the nation is coming to a new appreciation of music, as a whole, in its relation to humanity. The new movement will call forth new and larger efforts on the part of American composers, who, with their present thorough assimilation of the various musical influences of the world, will lead the nation into a new and mature creative epoch. ARTHUR FARWELL. August, 1914. CONTENTS OF VOLUME FOUR PAGE INTRODUCTION BY ARTHUR FARWELL vii PART I. APPRECIATION CHAPTER I. OUR ENGLISH INHERITANCE 1 The foundation of American musical culture--State of English musical culture in the seventeenth century--The Virginia colonists--The Puritans in England and in America; New England psalmody. II. BEGINNINGS OF MUSICAL CULTURE IN AMERICA 22 The foundations of American music--New England's musical awakening; early publications of psalm-tunes; reform of church singing--Early concerts in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, the South--The American attitude toward music--The beginnings of American music: Hopkinson; Lyon; Billings and their contemporaries. III. EARLY CONCERT LIFE 55 Sources of information--Boston Concerts of the eighteenth century; New England outside of Boston--Concerts in New York--Concerts in Philadelphia; open-air concerts--Concert life of the South; Charleston, Baltimore, etc.; Conclusion. PART II. ORGANIZATION IV. EARLY MUSICAL ORGANIZATIONS 84 Origin of musical societies--The South; The St. Cecilia of Charleston; Philadelphia and New York in the eighteenth century--The Euterpean Society; the New York Choral Society; Sacred Music Society; other New York Societies--New England in the eighteenth century; the Stoughton Musical Society of Boston; other societies in Boston and elsewhere. V. THE BEGINNINGS OF OPERA 104 Scantiness of theatrical performances in America; Charleston and Tony Aston; New York, Philadelphia and elsewhere--The Revolution and after; rivalry between New York and Philadelphia--The New Orleans opera. VI. OPERA IN THE UNITED STATES. PART I: NEW YORK 117