First Nations

Alice Cunningham Fletcher
and her Study of
Native American Music

• Literary Digest, 1908 •


A single page article from a 1908 issue of Literary Digest concerning the topic of Native American music and the studies of Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838 – 1923: pictured above), who had overseen a number of Native American archival recording sessions around the time this article appeared in print. Fletcher once wrote:

“We find more or less of it in Beethoven and Schubert, still more in Schumann and Chopin, most of all in Wagner and Liszt.”

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Alice Cunningham Fletcher[BR] and her Study of[BR] Native American Music

Native American Harmony in music 1908Old Magazine Article Concerning Alice Cunningham Fletcher 1908Alice Fletcher Studied Native American Music 1908Similarities Between Classical Music and Native American MusicComparisons of Classical Music and Native American Music
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