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1920-1955

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Gold Age of Tin Pan Alley

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Sigmund Romberg

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The Student Prince: Drink Drink Drink

Super popular

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Jerome Kern

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Old Man River

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Irving Berlin

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  • Wrote his own lyrics and music

- Song: White Christmas

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Cole Porter (1891-1964)

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  • Wrote his own lyrics and music

- His life was made into movies: Night and Day

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George Gershwin

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Song: I got Rhythm

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Jazz

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Notes on 3, 5, & 7 Scale notes

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W.C. Handy

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“Father of the Blues”

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Diegetic Music or Source Music

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Heard or performed by the characters themselves

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Nondiegetic Music or Underscoring

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background music

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Zoltan Kodaly

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  • Hungary

- His teaching method was adopted in schools across Europe and N. Am.

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Arthur Honegger

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Swiss

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New Objectivity

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incorporation of familiar elements such as Jazz

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Ernest Krenek (1900-1991)

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Song: Jonny spielt auf

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Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

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  • German

- associated with Gebrauchsmusick

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Kurt Weill (1900-1950)

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German

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1934

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Formalism was a derogatory term for interest in modernism & music for its own sake.

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Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)

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  • reputation as a radical modernist

- Opera: The Love for Three Oranges

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Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

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  • Russia

- criticized for writing Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

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Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony

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“a Soviet artist’s reply to just criticism”

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Claude Champagne (1891-1965)

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  • Canada

- 1st Canadian composer to achieve an international reputation

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Heitor Villa-Lobos

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  • the most important Brazilian composer

- Song: Choros

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Carlos Chavez

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  • Mexico

- first composer associated with the new nationalism

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Silvestre Revueltas

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-Mexico

Song: Sensemaya

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Nadia Boulanger

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taught classes in Paris for Americas leading composers

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Sound masses

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bodies of sound characterized by a particular timbre, register, rhythm, and melodic gesture

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Edgard Varese

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  • France

- turned to electronic sound generation and the tape recorder

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poeme electronique for tape

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written for pavillion in the Brussels world fair

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ionization

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only for percussion

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Henry Cowell

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Known for using tone clusters

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The Banshee

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requires an assistant to hold down the damper pedal while the pianist applies a variety of techniques to the strings

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Ruth Crawford Seeger

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1st woman to win Guggenheim Fellowship in music. She later believed that preserving folk songs was a great contribution to the nations musical life than writing modernist works and began editing American folk songs from field recordings

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George Gershwin

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  • Song: Rhapsody in Blue “Jazz concerto”

- song: “porgy and bess”

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Aaron Copland

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  • Jewish faith. 1st American composers to study with Nadia Boulanger
  • Orchestra suite: El Salon Mexico
  • Appalachian Spring-influence of Stravinsky
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William Grant Still

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-American
earned many “firsts” for an African-American musician
-1st to conduct a major orchestra in the US
-1st to have an opera produced by a major US company
-1st to have an opera televised over a national network
Afro-American Symphony: 1st symphonic work by an Af. Am. composer to be performed by a major Am. orchestra

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Virgil Thompson

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studied with Nadia Boulanger and influenced by Satie

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Reinhard

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Belgian

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Country music

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  • associated with white southerners

- music centered around a singer who played a guitar

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Rhythm and Blues

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blues: insistent accents on the back beats, beats two and four of the measure.

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Rock and Roll

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  • coined by Alan Freed

- became a national sensation with the appearance of the hit song “Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley and the Coets

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The Beatles

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-John Lennon-singer, songwriter and guitarist
-Paul McCartney-singer, songwriter and guitarist
-George Harrison-guitarist and songwriter
Ringo Starr-drummer

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Acid rock

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Jefferson Airplane

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Fok Songs

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written to support social causes such as “We Shall Overcome” for the Civil Rights movement

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1900 singer and songwriter

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Woody Guthrie

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Bob Dylan

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voiced protests through his songs

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Soul

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was the leading African-American tradition in the 1960s

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James Brown

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“King of Soul”

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