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John Knowles Paine

Before appearance of composer Johns Knowles Paine through the second option half from the nineteenth century, American music culture was a pale reflection of its Western counterpart. Though it would be years before Paine’s legacy would carry real fruits — through the explosion of U.S. compositional activity through the first …

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