Some passages can be traced to "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and to the composer's abortive opera about Hiawatha.
Its composer was convinced that American music should harness what he called "Negro melodies," which he strangely declared indistinguishable from Native American music. Some passages can be traced to "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and to the composer's abortive opera about Hiawatha. It was written with the help of his African-American student Henry Burleigh in Spillville, Iowa, a small Bohemian community, at the behest of sponsors who wanted him to help create an American musical tradition. FTP, identify this symphonic work of Antonin Dvorak.
Its composer was convinced that American music should harness what he called "Negro melodies," which he strangely declared indistinguishable from Native American music.
Symphony from the {New World} or Dvorak’s {Ninth} Symphony