John Sullivan Dwight: The Life and Writings of Boston's Musical Transcendentalist
- Author: Faucett, Bill F.
This book finally offers an answer to the question of who this Dwight of Dwight's Journal really was. Constituting the last word on John Sullivan Dwight, this book will interest those in music... — More…
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Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- PART I: Musica sub rosa
- 1. A Lineage so Grandly Historic
- The Dwights of Massachusetts
- Irrepressible Fondness
- Dwight's Early Education
- Genius and Enterprise
- 2. Musical Awakenings
- Life at Harvard
- Musica sub rosa
- Harvard Divinity School
- 3. The World Idealized
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Gardiner's The Music of Nature (1832)
- Goethe, Schiller & Carlyle
- George Ripley
- Early Major Writings
- 4. Preaching, The Dial, and the HMA
- Northampton
- The Dial (1840-1844)
- The Harvard Musical Association
- PART II: The Music of Transcendentalism
- 5. Dwight at Brook Farm
- Gentleman Farmers
- The Arts at Brook Farm
- The Emerging Journalist
- 6. The Harbinger, Beethoven, and the End of Brook Farm
- The Harbinger
- Beethoven Storms Boston
- Dwight's Fourieristic Writings
- Gone Like a Dream
- 7. The Maturing Critic
- Back in Boston
- The Daily Chronotype
- Sartain's Magazine
- Graham's Magazine
- New Prospects
- PART III: The World at Arm's Length
- 8. Dwight's Journal of Music
- Founding the Journal
- Models and Influences
- Early Reception of the Journal
- Oliver Ditson
- 9. Years in Days
- Dwight's Grand Tour
- Music in Europe
- The Great Eastern
- 10. Dwight on the Issues
- Responses to the Civil War
- Dwight contra Enterprise
- Native Musicians
- Music of the Future
- Murmurs of a Grander Future
- Music Libraries in Boston
- 11. The End of Dwight's Journal of Music
- We Still Live
- Howling Wolves
- The Journal Folds
- CODA
- 12. The Last Transcendentalist
- Life After the Journal
- The Perkins Institution for the Blind
- Last writings
- The Last Transcendentalist
- Appendices
- 1. Dwight's Harvard Forensics & Themes Topics
- 2. Selected Original Poems by Dwight
- 3. Musical Repertoire & Guest Artists at Brook Farm
- 4. Selected Song Translations & Adaptations by Dwight
- 5. Dwight's Major Original Essays in the Journal (1852-1881)
- 6. Dwight's European Editorial Correspondences for the Journal (1860-1861)
- Abbreviations
- John Sullivan Dwight: A Selected Bibliography
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
