An Introduction to America’s Music
CHAPTER 15 | JAZZ IN THE SWING ERA 379 Basie’s rhythm section was a four-man accompanying unit, and within it he played his part ...
380 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II composer: Lester Young date: 1939 performers: Count Basie, piano; Lester Youn ...
CHAPTER 15 | JAZZ IN THE SWING ERA 381 SONG INTERPRETATION AND THE ART OF JAZZ SINGING One can hardly imagine a stronger infl ue ...
382 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II K Billie Holiday (1915–1959) was one of the fi rst musicians to perform publi ...
CHAPTER 15 | JAZZ IN THE SWING ERA 383 songwriter: Cole Porter date: composed 1929, recorded 1945 performers: Billie Holiday, vo ...
384 PART 3 | FROM WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II CD 3.6 Listening Guide 15.5 “What Is This Thing Called Love?” BILLIE HOLIDAY ...
CHAPTER 15 | FURTHER VIEWING 385 Kalinak, Kathryn. How the West Was Sung: Music in the Westerns of John Ford. Berkeley and Los A ...
TIMELINE: 1939–2009 1939 Igor Stravinsky immigrates to the United States 1940 John Cage invents the prepared piano 1949 The 45-r ...
AMERICA’S MUSIC PART FOUR SINCE WORLD WAR II T h e years immediately after World War II marked a period of separa- tion between ...
388 CHAPTER 16 CLASSICAL MUSIC, JAZZ, AND MUSICAL THEATER AFTER WORLD WAR II I n 1946 the United States was the world’s chief mi ...
CHAPTER 16 | CLASSICAL MUSIC IN THE POSTWAR YEARS 389 hall’s prevailing formula combined edifi cation (through the classics) wit ...
390 PART 4 | SINCE WORLD WAR II that together formed an independent force. Grounded in a changing view of music history, some br ...
CHAPTER 16 | CLASSICAL MUSIC IN THE POSTWAR YEARS 391 No musician seized more eagerly on the constructive possibilities of twelv ...
392 PART 4 | SINCE WORLD WAR II ELECTRONIC MUSIC As early as 1917 the Franco-American composer Edgard Varèse had proclaimed: “I ...
CHAPTER 16 | CLASSICAL MUSIC IN THE POSTWAR YEARS 393 music would “continue and increase until we reach a music produced through ...
394 PART 4 | SINCE WORLD WAR II Listening Guide 16.1 Sonata no. 2 JOHN CAGE CD 3.7 timing section duration 0:00 A a 12 beats. 0: ...
CHAPTER 16 | CLASSICAL MUSIC IN THE POSTWAR YEARS 395 Once he dissolved the split between intention and nonintention, he began a ...
396 PART 4 | SINCE WORLD WAR II Many younger Americans took Cage’s example as a jumping-off point for work of their own. Cage’s ...
CHAPTER 16 | JAZZ IN THE POSTWAR YEARS 397 When the war ended and the big bands began to break up, a corps of players remained w ...
398 PART 4 | SINCE WORLD WAR II timing section comments 0:00 introduction Piano alternates two chords a half-step apart over a t ...
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