An Introduction to America’s Music

CHAPTER 12 | FOUR GIANTS OF EARLY JAZZ 299 her word for it.” He started piano lessons at seven, studied commercial art in high s ...

300 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II After World War II, Ellington enlarged his band, even as economic conditions ...

CHAPTER 12 | FOUR GIANTS OF EARLY JAZZ 301 compellingly, to and from the subconscious.” In Ellington’s view, musicians per- form ...

302 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II timing theme comments 0:00 chorus 1 Minor-mode paraphrase of “The Holy City”; ...

303 slow in tempo, rich in harmony, delicately blended in timbre, and meditative in atmosphere, of which “Mood Indigo” (1930) is ...

304 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II Floyd, Samuel A. The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Afri ...

305 CHAPTER CONCERT MUSIC B E T WEEN 13 THE WORLD WARS I n the decades between the two world wars, classical music in the United ...

306 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II members of the general public also supported them. And as orchestras thrived, ...

CHAPTER 13 | SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS, CELEBRITY CONDUCTORS, AND THE NEW MEDIA 307 The London-born Leopold Stokowski (1882–1977) came ...

308 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II arrangements, excerpts, and simplifi cations had made operas and symphonies i ...

CHAPTER 13 | COMPOSERS, THE GOVERNMENT, AND THE MARKETPLACE DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION 309 The Great Depression made a deep imp ...

310 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II the past, in folk culture and local life. Murals in post offi ces featured Am ...

CHAPTER 13 | A MUSICAL REVOLUTIONARY: RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER 311 In this and other compositions of the 1930s and later, Copland fo ...

312 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II Seeger in 1932, shortly after her return from Europe, Ruth Crawford had alrea ...

CHAPTER 13 | A MUSICAL REVOLUTIONARY: RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER 313 which was affi liated with the American Communist Party, Charles ...

314 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II CD 2.14 Listening Guide 13.1 “Chinaman, Laundryman” RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER date ...

CHAPTER 13 | A MUSICAL REVOLUTIONARY: RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER 315 timing text comments 1:04 My boss says: “Chinaman, go back to Chi ...

316 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II tempos converge on the downbeat of each bar, then diverge. The vocal nota- ti ...

CHAPTER 13 | GEORGE GERSHWIN 317 connection between the redirection of her energies away from composing and her marriage to Seeg ...

318 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II Gershwin’s song writing career followed a rising trajectory. At fi rst he was ...