Notes
1. Paul Charosh, “’Popular’ and ‘Classical’ in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Music,” American Music 10, no. 2 (1992): 117–35.
2. Joseph Horowitz, “Henry Krehbiel: German American, Music Critic,” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 8, no. 2 (2009): 165–87.
3. “Nineteenth-Century Special Issue,” American Music 21, no 3 (2003).
4. Also valuable as an overview is Steven Bauer’s “Music, Morals, and Social Management,” American Music 19, no. 1 (2001): 64–130.
5. John Kelly, “Here’s the Story behind Sousa’s Famous ‘Washington Post March,’” The Washington Post, June 14, 2014. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/heres-the-story-behind-sousas-famous-washington-post-march/2014/06/14/c804553e-f23b-11e3-914c-1fbd0614e2d4_story.htm.
6. For an extensive and well-documented account of popular music, including song sheets, see Paul Charosh, “Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song,” American Music 15, no. 4 (1997): 459–92.
7. A pianola roll performance of “Maple Leaf Rag” on YouTube, claimed to be by Joplin himself, is a rough-and-tumble, whiz-bang version of his best-known rag. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUfjwaoufrs.
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