America's Musical Landscape - Brossura

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Preface

Introduction

Prelude: Basic Properties of Musical Sound

The Elements of Music

Rhythm

Meter

Melody

Harmony

Timbre

Form

Music Notation

Elements of an American Sound

How to Improve Your Listening Skills

Listening Example 1. trad.: "John Henry"

Terms to Review

Critical Thinking

Part 1. Music in Early North America

The Early Years: Historical and Cultural Perspective

The Beginnings of Music in America

Native Americans

European Emigrants

Puritan Society

The African Experience in Early America

Revolution, in Classical Style

Painting in Eighteenth-Century America

Chapter 1. North American Indian Music

Songs

Texture

Texts

Listening Example 2. Yeibichai Chant Song (excerpt)

Sioux Grass Dance

Listening Example 3. Sioux Grass Dance (excerpt)

Sound Instruments

Contemporary Indian Song

Professional Musicians

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Critical Thinking

Chapter 2. Early Folk Music

Spanish Traditions

Alabados

Corridos

Listening Example 4: Anonymous, "El corrido de Gregorio Cortez"

British Traditions

Folk Ballads

Listening Example 5: Anonymous, "Barbara Allen"

Early American Folk Music

Listening Example 6: Anonymous, "Shenandoah"

African Traditions

Field Hollers

Ring Shouts

Listening Example 7: Field Holler

Listening Example 8: Father's Field Call

Listening Example 9:Jesse Bradley, "Hammer, Ring" (excerpt)

Freedom Songs<4>Musical Instruments

Listening Example 10: "No More Auction Block for Me"

What of African Music Survives Today?

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Critical Thinking

Chapter 3. Religious Music in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal Periods

Music at the Spanish Missions

Psalm Tunes

Psalters

Listening Example 11. Louis Bourgeois, "Old Hundred" (excerpt)

Other Protestant Music

Listening Example 12. Joseph Brackett, Jr., "'Tis the Gift to Be Simple"

German-Speaking Protestant Sects

The Great Awakening

Early Efforts at Musical Reform

The Singing School Movement

William Billings (1746-1800)

Listening Example 13. William Billings, "Chester"

Canons

Listening Example 14. William Billings, "When Jesus Wept"

Fuging Tunes

Listening Example 15. Daniel Read, "Sherburne"

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Critical Thinking

Chapter 4. Secular Music in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal Periods

Music in Everyday Experience

Prestigious Musical Amateurs

Early American Theater

Early Bands

Listening Example 16: Anonymous, "Yankee Doodle" (excerpt)

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Critical Thinking

Part 1 Summary

Part 2. The Tumultuous Nineteenth Century

Romanticism in America: Historical and Cultural Perspective

The Emergence of Characteristically American Art

Independence

The Unknown

Love of Nature

Fusion of the Arts

The Civil War Era

Music

Chapter 5. Religious Music in the Early Nineteenth Century

The Great Revival

Shape-Note Notation

Spiritual Songs

"Amazing Grace"

Black Spirituals

Listening Example 17: James Macdermid. "There'll Be Joy, Joy, Joy" (excerpt)

Listening Example 18: Anonymous, "Amazing Grace"

Listening Example 19: Anonymous, "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" (excerpt)

Spirituals As Concert Music

Singing Conventions

Further Movements to Reform Music

Lowell Mason

Listening Example 20: Lowell Mason, "Nearer, My God, to Thee"

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Critical Thinking

Chapter 6. Popular Music of the Civil War Era

Minstrelsy

Listening Example 21: Daniel Decatur Emmett, "I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land"

James A. Bland (1854-1911)

The Heritage of Minstrelsy

Stephen Foster (1826-1864)

Listening Example 22: Stephen Foster, "I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair"

Listening Example 23: Stephen Foster, "Oh! Susanna"

Patriotic Songs

Listening Example 24: John Stafford Smith, "The Anacreontick Song"

Civil War Songs

Singing Families

Listening Example 25: Anonymous, "Get Off the Track"

Concert Bands

Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore (1829-1892)

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Critical Thinking

Chapter 7. Concert Music

Orchestral Music

Theodore Thomas (1835-1905)

Romantic Virtuosos

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)

Piano Music

Listening Example 26: Louis Moreau Gottschalk, "Le bananier"

Rise of Nationalism in Music

Second New England School

John Knowles Paine (1839-1906)

Listening Example 27: John Knowles Paine, Fuga giocosa, op. 41, no. 3

Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944)

Listening Example 28: Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, Symphony in E minor (Gaelic), 2nd movement

Edward MacDowell (1860-1908)

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Critical Thinking

PART 2 Summary

PART 3. The Growth of Vernacular Traditions

Music in the Vernacular: Historical and Cultural Perspective

Vernacular Art and Literature

Vernacular Music

Chapter 8. The Rise of Popular Culture

John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)

Marches

Listening Example 29. John Philip Sousa, "The Stars and Stripes Forever"

Ragtime

Scott Joplin (1868-1917)

Listening Example 30. Scott Joplin, "Maple Leaf Rag"

Influence of Ragtime

Tin Pan Alley

The Songs

Barbershop Singing

Listening Example 31. George M. Cohan, "Rose" ("A Ring to the Name of Rose")

Irving 32. Irving Berlin, "Alexander's Ragtime Band"

Jerome Kern (1885-1945)

Cole Porter (1892-1964)

Listening Example 33. Cole Porter, "Night and Day"

George Gershwin (1898-1937)

Decline of Tin Pan Alley

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Critical Thinking

Chapter 9. The Jazz Age

Blues

Rural or Country Blues

Listening Example 34. Robert Johnson, "Hellhound on My Trail"

Classic Blues

Listening Example 35. Bessie Smith, "Lost Your Head Blues"

Urban Blues

Listening Example 36. W. C. Handy, St. Louis Blues

New Orleans Jazz

Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)

Listening Example 37. Lillian Hardin Armstrong, "Hotter Than That" (excerpt)

Chicago Jazz

Jazz Piano

Boogie-Woogie

Stride Piano

Listening Example 38. James P. Johnson, "Carolina Shout"

Sweet Jazz

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Critical Thinking

Chapter 10. Jazz 1930-1960

Big Band Swing

Art of Arranging

Listening Example 39. Count Basie, Lester Young, arr., "Taxi War Dance" (excerpt)

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974)

Listening Example 40. Duke Ellington, Mood Indigo

Women in Jazz

Rise of Big Band Vocalists

Billie Holiday (1915-1959)

Bebop

Charlie "Bird" Parker (1920-1955)

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (1917-1993)

Listening Example 42. Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, "KoKo"

Jazz As Concert Music

Jazz Composition

Listening Example 42. Duke Ellington, Concerto for Cootie

Progressive Jazz

Listening Example 43. Paul Desmond, "Take Five" (excerpt)

Cool Jazz

Listening Example 44. Miles Davis, "Boplicity"

Hard Bop

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Critical Thinking

Chapter 11. Country Music

From Country to City

Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933)

Listening Example 45. Jimmie Rodgers, Blue Yodel No. 9

The Carter Family

Styles of Country Music

American Folk Ballads

Listening Example 46. Anonymous, "The Ballad of Casey Jones"

Bluegrass

Listening Example 47. Earl Scruggs, "Earl's Breakdown"

Country Pop and the Nashville Sound

Western Swing

Honky-Tonk

Cowboy Songs

Hawaiian Music

Listening Example 48: Danny Ku, "Mele of My Tutu E"

Cajun Music

Listening Example 49. Anonymous, Cajun Two-Step (excerpt)

Zydeco

Women in Country

Recent Country...