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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Edward MacDowell _Frontispiece_

Edgar Stillman Kelley 57

Harvey Worthington Loomis 77

Ethelbert Nevin 92

John Philip Sousa 112

Henry Schoenefeld 128

John Knowles Paine 145

Horatio W. Parker 174

Frank van der Stucken 188

George Whitefield Chadwick 210

Arthur Foote 221

Henry K. Hadley 241

Adolph M. Foerster 248

Charles Crozat Converse 256

Louis Adolphe Coerne 262

Henry Holden Huss 291

Harry Rowe Shelley 304

Frederick Field Bullard 351

Homer A. Norris 357

Frederic Grant Gleason 367

William H. Sherwood 383

A.J. Goodrich 388

Wilson G. Smith 395

Mrs. H.H.A. Beach 426

Margaret Ruthven Lang 432

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN COMPOSERS.

CHAPTER I.

A GENERAL SURVEY.

Coddling is no longer the chief need of the American composer. While
he still wants encouragement in his good tendencies,--much more
encouragement than he gets, too,--he is now strong enough to profit by
the discouragement of his evil tendencies.

In other words, the American composer is ready for criticism.

The first and most vital flaw of which his work will be accused is the
lack of nationalism. This I should like to com