Excerpt from Annals of Music in America: A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events, From 1640 to the Present Day, With Comments on the Various Periods Into Which the Work Is Divided Among the items recorded are some which cannot be regarded as marking the musical progress of the country, and yet are items of musical interest; the first performance of The star-spangled Banner and of America do not mark any progress and yet are historic events. The establishment of Gilmore's Band and Sousa's Band are items of interest rather than of educational progress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.