An Introduction to America’s Music

CHAPTER 19 | SOUL, FUNK, AND DISCO IN THE 1970s 479 as a backdrop for stories focused on crime and punishment with predominantly ...

480 PART 4 | SINCE WORLD WAR II songwriter: Curtis Mayfi eld genre: funk date: 1972 performers: Curtis Mayfi eld, vocal; studio ...

CHAPTER 19 | SOUL, FUNK, AND DISCO IN THE 1970s 481 timing section text comments 2:40 chorus Oooh, Superfl y... 8 bars: As befor ...

482 PART 4 | SINCE WORLD WAR II At the time, though, any such comparison would have been hotly contested. Many rock fans—both ma ...

CHAPTER 19 | JAZZ-ROCK FUSION 483 Davis did not participate; his idiosyncratic approach to jazz-rock fusion was his way of enter ...

484 PART 4 | SINCE WORLD WAR II Listening Guide 19.4 Birds of Fire CD 4.3 MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA WHAT TO LISTEN FOR emphasis on e ...

CHAPTER 19 | MUSICAL THEATER IN THE 1970s 485 Listen & Refl ect The same year John McLaughlin recorded this piece, he also ...

486 PART 4 | SINCE WORLD WAR II most signifi cant musical theater of the 1970s developed along a path indepen- dent of rock and ...

CHAPTER 19 | MUSICAL THEATER IN THE 1970s 487 format of the integrated musical. Instead, Sondheim’s ability to develop char- act ...

488 PART 4 | SINCE WORLD WAR II timing section text comments 0:00 introduction Strings and woodwinds establish gentle waltz. 0:0 ...

CHAPTER 19 | CLASSICAL MUSIC IN THE 1970s 489 Listen & Refl ect What features of this recording would support a description ...

490 PART 4 | SINCE WORLD WAR II In 1971 Reich and Glass split up to form separate ensembles. Containing between fi ve and eight ...

CHAPTER 19 | CLASSICAL MUSIC IN THE 1970s 491 broadly, as using any pitches not found on an equal-tempered piano. There are seve ...

492 PART 4 | SINCE WORLD WAR II California assisting Partch as a carpenter and musician. On the faculty of the University of Ill ...

CHAPTER 19 | CLASSICAL MUSIC IN THE 1970s 493 timing section comments 0:00 theme fi rst statement Two statements of the “Amazing ...

494 PART 4 | SINCE WORLD WAR II What is jazz-rock fusion? How does it resemble jazz? How does it resemble rock? How does musica ...

495 T he 1970s was a time when musical audiences seemed to splinter into ever-smaller factions, as evidenced in the growing numb ...

496 PART 4 | SINCE WORLD WAR II academic composers from experimentalists working outside educational insti- tutions. Of the form ...

CHAPTER 20 | POSTMODERNISM 497 command of both classical virtuosity and the style and panache of a jazz violinist such as Joe Ve ...

498 PART 4 | SINCE WORLD WAR II in the tape studio and created music, both electronic and for live instruments, in a minimalist ...