An Introduction to America’s Music

279 reminded listeners that romance between “free” modern individuals could be perilous. Just as the simple diatonic idiom of an ...

280 CHAPTER 12 MODERN MUSIC AND JAZZ IN THE 1920s B etween the debacles of World War I and the 1929 stock market crash, American ...

CHAPTER 12 | MUSICAL MODERNISM 281 LEO ORNSTEIN Although Ives had been experimenting with modernist devices even before 1900, he ...

SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORYSPOTLIGHT ON HISTORY Charles Tomlinson Griffes O ne important composer of the World War I era had little con ...

CHAPTER 12 | MUSICAL MODERNISM 283 Minnesota and New York, but lived most of his adult life in semi-seclusion in Ver- mont. He w ...

284 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II features tone clusters made by pressing down the forearm on the keyboard to p ...

CHAPTER 12 | MUSICAL MODERNISM 285 CD 2.9 Listening Guide 12.1 The Banshee^ HENRY COWELL Listen & Refl ect Cowell could hav ...

286 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II tunebook Southern Harmony (1835). Between 1944 and 1964 Cowell wrote, for var ...

CHAPTER 12 | THE RISE OF JAZZ 287 the New Orleans scene. In the 1890s, how- ever, new dances began replacing them— especially th ...

288 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II Johnny Dodds carries on another dialogue with Oliver, weaving an independent ...

CHAPTER 12 | THE RISE OF JAZZ 289 collective improvisation comes the most celebrated part of Dippermouth Blues: Oliver’s cornet ...

290 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II In the years after World War I, jazz was seen in some circles as a symptom of ...

CHAPTER 12 | FOUR GIANTS OF EARLY JAZZ 291 drummer, recalled that Morton worked “on each and every number” in rehearsal until he ...

292 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II composer: Jelly Roll Morton date: 1926 performers: Jelly Roll Morton, piano; ...

CHAPTER 12 | FOUR GIANTS OF EARLY JAZZ 293 Moreover, Morton’s Red Hot Peppers numbers display his awareness of the artistic poss ...

294 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II perhaps as a prostitute. While Armstrong grabbed some schooling as a boy, he ...

CHAPTER 12 | FOUR GIANTS OF EARLY JAZZ 295 records; with a single exception, they never played live engagements. To listen to Ar ...

296 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II gesture of affi rmation, surprise, irony, or even mockery. The second infl ue ...

CHAPTER 12 | FOUR GIANTS OF EARLY JAZZ 297 to the prodding of Fisk University–educated Lil Hardin, the jazz pianist to whom he w ...

298 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II It was no accident that the fi rst legendary jazz musician was white. (The me ...