Music 526: Music in the United States
Listening Guide 2
CD1-22 Chadwick: Symphonic Sketches, 1st mvt. (optional)
CD1-23 Beach: Gaelic Symphony
CD1-24 MacDowell: To a Wild Rose (piano)
CD1-26 Deep River [video of Burleigh arrangement]
1017 Hairston arr.: Joshua (UM Concert Singers)
CD2-01 Webster: Sweet By and By
CD2-02 Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever [video]
1005 Sousa: King Cotton (optional)
CD2-03 Harris: After the Ball
CD2-04 Ives: The Circus Band [video]
CD2-05 Ives: Serenity
CD2-06 Ives: The Housatonic at Stockbridge [video]
1001 Ives: At the River
1002 Ives: General William Booth Enters into Heaven (optional)
1003 Ives: Variations on America (optional) [video]
CD2-08 Cook: Swing Along
CD2-09 Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag (played by Joplin) [video]
1006-10 Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag (played by Jelly Roll Morton)
CD2-10 Berlin: Alexander's Ragtime Band (Boswell Sisters)
CD2-11 Berlin: That Mysterious Rag (optional)
CD2-12 Handy: St. Louis Blues (Bessie Smith, vocal) [video]
CD2-13 Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (Paul Whiteman Orchestra)
CD2-14 Copland: El Salon Mexico [video]
1018-19 Seeger: Quartet 1931, 4th mvt.
CD2-15 Cowell: The Banshee [video]
CD2-16 Carter: Can the Circle Be Unbroken
CD2-17 Guthrie: So Long, It's Been Good to Know You (optional)[video]
CD2-18 Oliver: Dippermouth Blues
CD2-19 Armstrong: West End Blues
CD2-20 Ellington: Old Man Blues (optional)
CD2-21 Ellington: Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue
CD3-01 Young: Lester Leaps In (Basie's K.C. Seven)
1010-16 Still: Afro-American Symphony, 1st mvt.
CD3-02 Water Boy (Paul Robeson)
CD3-03 Kern: Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man [video]
CD3-05 Gershwin: The Man I Love [video]
1020 Varese: Ionisation [video]
CD3-06 E.Carter: String Quartet no. 1
CD3-07 Babbitt: Philomel
1029 Cage: Sonata V (prepared piano) [video]
1030 Noncarrow: Study #1 (player piano)
1031-33 Barber: The Monk and His Cat
CD3-08 Cage: Williams Mix (optional)
1021-28 Gillespie: Anthropology
CD3-12 Parker: Parker's Mood
CD3-13 Coltrane: Welcome
CD3-14 Porter: Where Is the Life That Late I Led
1034 Bernstein: Tonight (West Side Story) [video]
1035 Berry: Roll Over Beethoven [video]
CD3-17 Bolcom: Violin Concerto in D, 3d mvt.
1036 Riley: In C [video]
1037 Reich: It's Gonna Rain, part 1
CD3-18 Glass: Einstein on the Beach (excerpt)
1038 Larsen: Missa Gaia - introit
1041 Foss: Renaissance Concerto - Jouissance
CD3-19 Marsalis: Devotional
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THE AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC INDUSTRY, 1920-1975
Race Pop Hillbilly
1920's rural blues Broadway string bands
"classic" blues traditional jazz family groups
preachers,quartets
1930-1945 more blues big band jazz (swing) cowboy singers
boogie piano more Broadway Western swing
Rhythm & Blues Pop Country & Western
1945-55 urban blues "crooners" bluegrass
doowop ["bebop" jazz honky-tonk
no longer popular]
1955-60 <----------- R O C K A N D R O L L ------------>
Soul (or R&B) Rock Country
1960-75 Motown, Stax surfers, folk rock, "acid," various styles
disco, funk heavy metal, art rock [Nashville]
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SOME IMPORTANT DATES
1640 Bay Psalm Book (words only)
1698 Bay Psalm Book, 9 ed. (with tune supplement)
1721 Tufts Introduction, singing school movement
1770 Billings, New-England Psalm Singer
[1775-81 War of American Independence]
1837 Lowell Mason, music in Boston schools
1843 Virginia Minstrels, first minstrel company
1849 Gottschalk works with American themes
1867 Slave Songs, spirituals collected in Sea Islands
1875 Paine appointed professor of music at Harvard
1899 Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag published
1914 ASCAP founded
1918 First jazz recording
1935 Gerswin, Porgy and Bess (folk opera)
1941 ASCAP-broadcasters dispute
1942-43 Petrillo recording ban
1944 Copland, Appalachian Spring (ballet)
1957 Bernstein, West Side Story
1965 National Endowment for the Arts founded