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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
taught classes in Paris for Americas leading composers
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Sound masses
bodies of sound characterized by a particular timbre, register, rhythm, and melodic gesture
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Edgard Varese
- France | - turned to electronic sound generation and the tape recorder
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poeme electronique for tape
written for pavillion in the Brussels world fair
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ionization
only for percussion
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Henry Cowell
Known for using tone clusters
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The Banshee
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
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
- Song: Rhapsody in Blue "Jazz concerto" | - song: "porgy and bess"
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Aaron Copland
- 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
-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
studied with Nadia Boulanger and influenced by Satie
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Reinhard
Belgian
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Country music
- associated with white southerners | - music centered around a singer who played a guitar
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Rhythm and Blues
blues: insistent accents on the back beats, beats two and four of the measure.
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Rock and Roll
- 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
-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
Jefferson Airplane
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Fok Songs
written to support social causes such as "We Shall Overcome" for the Civil Rights movement
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1900 singer and songwriter
Woody Guthrie
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Bob Dylan
voiced protests through his songs
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Soul
was the leading African-American tradition in the 1960s
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James Brown
"King of Soul"

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