Monograph 08 -American Singing Societies and Their Partsongs: Ten Prominent American Composers of the Genre (1860-1940) and the

American Singing Societies and Their Partsongs: Ten Prominent American Composers of the Genre (1860-1940) and the Seminal Singing Societies that Performed the Repertory.  By William Osborne

Monograph 8 explores several of the singing societies that figured prominently in the cultural life of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America.  A few, like the Mendelssohn Glee Club of New York and the Apollo Club of Boston, remain active to this day.  The societies frequently commissioned celebrated composers of the time to write partsongs for their society performances.  American Singing Societies and Their Partsongs considers the relationships that existed between the various composers and societies.  It concludes with a repertoire list of 380 works from the partsong genre.