American Indian Music
‘THE American composer, author, lecturer and teacher, Daniel Gregory Mason, once said: " America has not one music, but ten musics." American Indian music has for the last four centuries frequently been the subject of comment by travellers and explorers. For. the past 160 years Americans
have taken a practical interest in it. One of the American composers who has sought inspiration from the music of the Indians, is Charles Wakefield Cadman. He has devoted years of study to the subject although he has also written much that is not in the category of Indian music. In 1909 Cadman visited the Omaha Indian Reservation and made a study of Indian songs and folk
lore. He collected a number of authentic native tunes which he later harmonised. He also made some records of Indian songs and flute pieces. The four songs that resulted failed to interest a single publisher until a stroke of luck led to an introduction to Madame Lilian Nordica, the American soprano. After once having heard " From the Land of the Sky Blue Water," she fell in love with it, added-it to her repertoire, and at the premiere of the song in Cleveland, had to sing it three times.-(" Our Allies and Their Music-The United States.’ 2YA, January 11.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 137, 6 February 1942, Page 5
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213American Indian Music New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 137, 6 February 1942, Page 5
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