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)