John Sullivan Dwight

Acknowledgements Illustrations Introduction PART I: Musica sub rosa 1. A Lineage so Grandly Historic The Dwights of Massachusetts Irrepressible Fondness Dwight's Early Education Genius and Enterprise 2. Musical Awakenings Life at Harvard Musica sub rosa Harvard Divinity School 3. The World Idealized Ralph Waldo Emerson Gardiner's The Music of Nature (1832) Goethe, Schiller & Carlyle George Ripley Early Major Writings 4. Preaching, The Dial, and the HMA Northampton The Dial (1840-1844) The Harvard Musical Association PART II: The Music of Transcendentalism 5. Dwight at Brook Farm Gentleman Farmers The Arts at Brook Farm The Emerging Journalist 6. The Harbinger, Beethoven, and the End of Brook Farm The Harbinger Beethoven Storms Boston Dwight's Fourieristic Writings Gone Like a Dream 7. The Maturing Critic Back in Boston The Daily Chronotype Sartain's Magazine Graham's Magazine New Prospects PART III: The World at Arm's Length 8. Dwight's Journal of Music Founding the Journal Models and Influences Early Reception of the Journal Oliver Ditson 9. Years in Days Dwight's Grand Tour Music in Europe The Great Eastern 10. Dwight on the Issues Responses to the Civil War Dwight contra Enterprise Native Musicians Music of the Future Murmurs of a Grander Future Music Libraries in Boston 11. The End of Dwight's Journal of Music We Still Live Howling Wolves The Journal Folds CODA 12. The Last Transcendentalist Life After the Journal The Perkins Institution for the Blind Last writings The Last Transcendentalist Appendices 1. Dwight's Harvard Forensics & Themes Topics 2. Selected Original Poems by Dwight 3. Musical Repertoire & Guest Artists at Brook Farm 4. Selected Song Translations & Adaptations by Dwight 5. Dwight's Major Original Essays in the Journal (1852-1881) 6. Dwight's European "Editorial Correspondences" for the Journal (1860-1861) Abbreviations John Sullivan Dwight: A Selected Bibliography Selected Bibliography Index