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Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Timeline
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: A Most Unusual Career, and a Recital of Songs
- Memories * The Circus Band * Walking * The Cage * Down East * General William Booth Enters into Heaven
- Chapter 2: An American Musical Childhood
- Holiday Quickstep * Variations on "America"
- Chapter 3: Apprenticeship
- Feldeinsamkeit * Ich grolle nicht * Symphony No. 1 in D Minor
- Chapter 4: Weaving the Threads
- String Quartet No. 1 * Psalm 67 * Yale-Princeton Football Game
- Chapter 5: Seeking and Finding
- Central Park in the Dark * The Unanswered Question
- Chapter 6: Synthesizing American and European Music
- Symphony No. 2
- Chapter 7: A New Form
- Symphony No. 3: The Camp Meeting * The Violin Sonatas
- Chapter 8: American Holidays
- A Symphony: New England Holidays
- Chapter 9: American Histories
- Orchestral Set No. 1: Three Places in New England * Orchestral Set No. 2
- Chapter 10: American Literature
- Piano Sonata No. 2: Concord, Mass., 1840-1860
- Chapter 11: Transcendent Journeys
- String Quartet No. 2 * Symphony No. 4
- Chapter 12: Collecting Songs, and Late Works
- 114 Songs * Psalm 90
- Epilogue
- Selected Reading
- Selected Listening
- About the Author