An Introduction to America’s Music

CHAPTER 13 | GEORGE GERSHWIN 319 CD 2.15 Listening Guide 13.2 Rhapsody in Blue GEORGE GERSHWIN date: composed and recorded in 19 ...

320 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II CD 2.15 Listening Guide 13.2 Rhapsody in Blue GEORGE GERSHWIN timing section ...

CHAPTER 13 | GEORGE GERSHWIN 321 for modernism in the classical sphere—Rhapsody in Blue has come to be reckoned both an American ...

322 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II Grofé, who orchestrated the piece for the idiosyncratic W hiteman ensemble, s ...

CHAPTER 13 | GEORGE GERSHWIN 323 ensemble, Rhapsody in Blue entered the orchestral repertory and became the twen- tieth century’ ...

324 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II since the uncut opera’s fi rst performance in 1976, have opera lovers come to ...

CHAPTER 13 | BLACK CONCERT MUSIC AND THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE 325 Sissle’s Shuffl e Along, the decade’s most successful black Broa ...

326 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II Listening Guide 13.3 Afro-American Symphony, fi rst movement (Moderato assai) ...

CHAPTER 13 | BLACK CONCERT MUSIC AND THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE 327 Listening Guide 13.3 Afro-American Symphony, fi rst movement (Mo ...

328 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II of the greatest African American singers of opera, art songs, and spirituals. ...

SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORYSPOTLIGHT ON HISTORY Marian Anderson Gives a Lesson in Tolerance D espite a distinguished early career in Eu ...

330 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II such as sonata form, where the music begins with clear, stable harmony and rh ...

331 QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AND REVIEW W hat are the significant differences between the accomplishments of Arturo Toscanini, ...

332 CHAPTER 14 BLUES, GOSPEL, COUNTRY, AND FOLK MUSIC IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR II A s we saw in the previous chapte ...

CHAPTER 14 | COUNTRY BLUES 333 now music retailers throughout the South began acting as paid talent scouts for record companies. ...

334 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II date: 1937 performer: Robert Johnson, vocal and guitar genre: country blues m ...

CHAPTER 14 | COUNTRY BLUES 335 lines. (Like most slide guitarists, he favors “open” tunings, with the strings retuned to produce ...

336 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II K Robert Johnson (1911–1938), left, with fellow blues musician Johnny Shines ...

CHAPTER 14 | THOMAS A. DORSEY AND GOSPEL MUSIC 337 If the iconic country-blues fi gure is the lone bluesman who creates music wi ...

338 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II heartfelt, ecstatic, artful, and therefore worthy—in human expression. The em ...