The Symphony of the Cowboy – Cowboy Composers
*The following is part of a series of blog posts researched and written by Mark Clardy, SRM Docent and independent scholar.* A Cowboy Chorale Movement 2 Cowboy Composers In this second Movement of our Cowboy Chorale we will explore the influence of cowboy songs on American composers in the early 1900s. Cowboys and Indianists While the unfortunate soul being dragged in Remington’s The Ambushed Picket is most likely a military man, he would probably still suffer the same fate as any dying cowboy – i.e., a burial on the lonely prairie. While listening to the various arrangements [...]