Books by Bill F. Faucett

Chronicles the history of Florida State University's Marching Chiefs, from early efforts to form a band before the 1939 establishment of Florida State College for Women, to the Chiefs' attainment of "world renowned" status. The band's leaders, shows and music are discussed, along with the origins of some of their venerable traditions, game-day rituals and school songs.

Music in Boston: Composers, Events, and Ideas, 18521918 is a history of the city's classical-music culture in the period that begins a decade before the American Civil War and extends to the close of the Great War. The book provides insights into the intellectual foundation of Bostons musical development as revealed in the writings of its significant critics and thinkers, including John Sullivan Dwight, John Knowles Paine, William Foster Apthorp, and others. It also examines the influence of outsidersPatrick Gilmore, Theodore Thomas, Richard Wagner, New York's Metropolitan Opera, and Richard Strausson Boston's performance and composition scene while also considering events that affected music in Boston, such as the building of the Music Hall, the acquisition of its Great Organ, the National Peace Jubilee, Chicago's Columbian Exposition, Boston's first Wagner Festival, and the rise and fall of the Boston Opera Company. Music in Boston also accounts for the ascent of the Second New England School of composersJohn Knowles Paine, Edward MacDowell, George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach and othersand discusses their key compositions and legacy. Finally, the book explores Boston itself: its transformations via immigration, its ever-changing topography, and its economy.

George Whitefield Chadwick was one of the most prolific composers that the United States ever produced. He composed in nearly every genre, including opera/stage works (seven), orchestral music (17 major works), songs (over 100), and dozens of choral and chamber works.