Author:Carl Van Vechten

Carl Van Vechten
(1880–1964)

Carl Van Vechten

Works

Novels

• Peter Whiffle (1922)
• The Blind Bow-boy (1923)
• The Tattooed Countess (1924)
• Firecrackers (1925)
• Nigger Heaven (1926)
• Spider Boy (1928)

Musical compositions

• "Five Old English Ditties" (1904) (scan needed)

As editor

• Lords of the Housetops (1921)
• "Introduction" to The Weary Blues (1926)

Essay collections

• Music After the Great War, and Other Studies (1915)
• Music and Bad Manners (1916) (transcription project)
• Interpreters and Interpretations (1917) (transcription project)
• The Merry-Go-Round (1918) (transcription project)
• The Music of Spain (1918) (transcription project)
• In the Garret (1919) (transcription project)
• The Tiger in the House (1920) (transcription project)
• Red (1925)
• Excavations (1926) (external scan)

Individual essays

• "The Authoritative Work on American Music" (1915)
• "Cordite for Concerts" (1921)
• "The Great American Composer" (1917)
• "The Importance of Electrical Picture Concerts" (1916)
• "Movies for Program Notes" (1921)
• "Music for the Movies" (1915)
• "The New Art of the Singer" (1918)
• "A New Principle in Music" (1916)
• "On Hearing What You Want When You Want It" (1920)
• "On the Relative Difficulties of Depicting Heaven and Hell in Music" (1918)
• "On the Rewriting of Masterpieces" (1919)
• "Pour Amuser Rich" (1917)
• "Variations on a Theme by Havelock Ellis" (1919)
• "Why Music Is Unpopular" (1917)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.

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This author died in 1964, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 59 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.