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Stokes Encyclopedia Of Music And Musicians Volume Ii, 1908
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1so called from their places on the stage, being second in importance only to Bones himself. A popular song of unknown authorship called "Jim Crow," said to have been first sung in Louisville, Ky., 1830, gave its name to both entertainment and performers at first. Christy's minstrels were soon famous throughout England, and there were numerous organizations of Negro Minstrels in America, one of the best known being that of Dan Rice. Many of the exquisite songs of Stephen Foster were written for these minstrel troupes. It is a mistake to assume, however, that Negro Music was ever heard at these entertainments. The American slaves and their descendants learned music as they learned the English, French, or Spanish languages, and as the dialect or patois they spoke was but a debased form of these European tongues, so the so-called Negro folk music of America is but the reproduction of the music of the superior races, modified by Negro usage. The only negro who had even published acceptable lyric verse up to 1908 in the United States was a mulatto, the late Paul Dunbar. Aside from Blind Tom WIGGINS the only other American negroes known to musicians in 1908 were Cole and Johnson, authors, composers, and interpreters of "rag-time" (syncopated) "coon songs," who were highly successful entertainers in "vaudeville." And it is worth noting that but two names of musicians of Negro blood are to be found in the history of the world's music—Coleridge-Taylor, whose mother was an Englishwoman and whose father was a native of Sierra Leone, and the mulatto violinist, Bridgetower, who assisted Beethoven in the first performance of the Kreutzer Sonata.
3Neidlinger (William Harold) composed a mass, songs, many songs for children; taught singing in Paris and Chicago; pupil of Dudley Buck and Muller. B. July 20, 1863, Brooklyn, N. Y.; add. Chicago.
5Neige. Daniel F. E. Auber's four-act comic opera, to book by Scribe and Delavigne, was first performed Oct. 8, 1823, at the Théâtre Feydeau, Paris. An English version is known as "The Frozen Lake."
7Neithardt (August Heinrich) composed the operetta "Julietta"; became royal music director, and as such founded the Berlin Domchor; in early life bandmaster of the Garde Schützen Battalion and of the Kaiser Franz Grenadiers. B. Aug. 10, 1793, Schleiz; d. April 18, 1861, Berlin.
9Neitzel (Dr. Otto) composed to his own books the operas "Angela," Halle, 1887; "Dido," Weimar, 1888; "Der Alte Dessauer," Wiesbaden, 1889; toured Europe as pianist; taught Moscow Conservatory, 1879, then Cologne Conservatory; critic Kölnische "Zeitung"; toured America in lecture-recitals, 1907; pupil of Kullak Conservatory; Dr. Phil., Berlin. B. July 6, 1852, Falkenburg, Pomerania; add. Cologne.
11Nel Battere. It. On the beat or down stroke.
13Nelson (Sydney) composed "The Rose of Allandale," "The Pilot," and other ballads, the burlesque "The Grenadier," the opera "Ulrica" (not performed); published music in London with Charles Jefferys; toured Canada, the United States, and Australia with his family; pupil of Sir George Smart. B. Jan. 1, 1800, London; d. April 7, 1862, London.
15Nel Stile Antico. It. In antique style.
17Nenna (Pomponio) composed eight books of madrigals and church music in the style of Monteverde; taught Prince Gesualdo of Venosa; became Knight of the Golden Spur. B. about 1560, Bari, Naples; d. 1622.
19Nero. It. "Black," crotchet or quarter note.
21Néron. Anton Rubinstein's four-act opera, to book by Jules Barbier, was first performed Nov. 1, 1879, at the Hamburg Stadt Theatre.
23Neruda (Johann Chrysostom) played violin; took orders at the Prague Præmonstratensian monastery, of which he became chapelmaster. B. Dec. 1, 1705, Rossicz, Bohemia; d. Dec. 2, 1763. Johann Baptist Georg was for 30 years chapelmaster to the Elector of Saxony.
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