An Introduction to America’s Music

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CHAPTER 8 “TO STRETCH OUR EARS”: CLASSICAL MUSIC

COMES OF AGE 183

Theodore Thomas | The Second New England School | Edward MacDowell |

Charles Ives | LG 8.1. Amy Beach, Gaelic Symphony, second movement | LG 8.2. Edward

MacDowell, “To a Wild Rose,” from Woodland Sketches, op. 51 | LG 8.3. Charles Ives,

“The Things Our Fathers Loved”

CHAPTER 9 “ALL THAT IS NATIVE AND FINE”: AMERICAN

INDIAN MUSIC, FOLK SONGS, SPIRITUALS,

AND THEIR COLLECTORS 205

American Indian Music and Its Collectors | Anglo-Celtic Ballads and Their

Collectors | American Folk Songs and Their Collectors | Spirituals and Their

Collectors: From Contraband to Concert Hall | LG 9.1. Tatan ka-ohi tika (Brave Buffalo),

“A Buffalo Said to Me” | LG 9.2. Anonymous, “The Gypsy Laddie” | LG 9.3. Harry T. Burleigh, arr.,

“Deep River”

CHAPTER 10 “COME ON AND HEAR”: POPULAR MUSIC, THEATER,

AND DANCE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY 231

Musical Theater at the Turn of the Century | The Rise of Ragtime | Popular Song

and Dance in the Ragtime Era | LG 10.1. Scott Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag | LG 10.2. Irving

Berlin, “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” | LG 10.3. James Reese Europe, Castle House Rag

PART 3 AMERICA’S MUSIC FROM WORLD

WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II 254

CHAPTER 11 BLUES, COUNTRY, AND POPULAR SONGS

AFTER WORLD WAR I 256

The Blues | Hillbilly: The Invention of Country Music | The Big Bang in Bristol |

The Classic American Popular Song | LG 11.1. W. C. Handy, “St. Louis Blues” |

LG 11.2. The Carter Family, “Can the Circle Be Unbroken” | LG 11.3. Jimmie Rodgers, “Blue Yodel

no. 8 (Muleskinner Blues)” | LG 11.4. Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, “Can’t Help Lovin’

Dat Man”

CHAPTER 12 MODERN MUSIC AND JAZZ IN THE 1920s 280

Musical Modernism | The Rise of Jazz | Four Giants of Early Jazz | LG 12.1. Henry Cowell,

The Banshee | LG 12.2. King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Dippermouth Blues | LG 12.3. Jelly Roll

Morton and His Red Hot Peppers, Black Bottom Stomp | LG 12.4. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five,

West End Blues | LG 12.5. Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, Black and Tan Fantasy

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