...must be founded upon what are called the Negro melodies. These are the folk songs of America. In them I discover all that is needed for a great and noble...tender, passionate, melancholy, solemn, religious, merry, gay, or what you will. — Herald and Presbyter. — The Church needs to-day the blessing of...

...is based upon what might he considered a skilfully-handled negro melody. In negro melodies is found all that is needed for a great and noble school of...tender, passionate, melancholy, solemn, religious, hold, merry, gay, or what you will. It is music that suits itself to any mood or any purpose. The negro...

...religious. He quoted Dvorak as claiming that "our future music must be founded upon negro melodies. In them I discover all that is needed for a great and noble school. Nothing in composition can fail to be supplied with themes from that source." Professor Tanner (American)...

...the true sentiment of a people. , He gets into touch with the common humanity of a country. In (he negro melodies of America I discover all that is needed...what you will. It is music that suits itself to any rnood or any purpose. There is nothing in the whole range of composition that cannpt find a thematic...

...conviction. These beautiful and varied themes are the product of the soil. They are American. (...) In the Negro melodies of America I discover all that is needed for a great and noble school of music. [...] There is nothing in the whole ränge of composition that nimmt be supplied with themes from this...

...most (harming scher/o is based upon what might now be considered a skilfully handled negro melody. In the negro melodies of America I discover all that...passionate, melancholy, solemn, religious, bold, merry, gay or what you will. It is music' that suits itself to ans mood or any purpose. There is nothing in the...

...turn to them. All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people. ... In the negro melodies of America I discover all that...passionate, melancholy, solemn, religious, bold, merry, gay, or what you will.1 Dvorak wrote two other works in which he used themes employing the idioms of Negro...

...Americans to create national music. Dvorak saw great promise in such endeavors, and he proclaimed that "in the Negro melodies of America I discover all that is needed for a great and noble school of music" (McNeil 1980:501-2). Some attempts to use Native American musics in classical compositions were made...

...the next link in our story. Antonin Dvorak noted prophetically in the late nineteenth century: "In the Negro melodies of America, I discover all that is needed for a great and noble school of music." 4 Origins and Spread of the Blues Like the Germanic classical composers, African-American musicians...

...admonished composers that an American national style should be based on the music of African Americans. "In the [N]egro melodies of America I discover all that is needed for a great and noble school of music."22 At the time of the premiere of the "New World" Symphony on l5 December l893, in New York...