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Music in the United States
Better late than never...
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19th Century America
No American composers to speak ofMusic (arts in general) not a prestige pathViewed as belonging more in the home
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Thought Experiment
Imagine Beethoven born in Philadelphia, 1830Would he have been a composer?Unlikely: more likely would have gone into railroads, banking, steel, shipping, etc...
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Charles Ives
Über-dilettanteNon-professional composerInsurance executiveComposed on the weekendsTotal original
Left no disciples or followersHas never been copied or emulated
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Charles Ives
Stream-of-consciousness styleOften influenced by everyday sounds
Country fairs or civic celebrationsMultiple bands playing
Combination of musical stylesHymnsRagtimeBand musicAtonal modernism
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Charles Ives
Strange blend of populism and elitismNever easy; always challengingStopped composing in mid-life
DiscouragementBad health
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Second Orchestral Set
“The Rockstrewn Hills Join in the People’s Outdoor Meeting” (1909)
Written before “The Rite of Spring”Kaleidoscope of almost-random sounds
DancesMarchesHymns
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Aaron Copland
1900 - 1990Trained in FranceHighly educated, sophisticated composerTireless promoter and supporter of American music
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Aaron Copland
Two kinds of compositions“Modernist” compositions designed for a more professional audience“Populist” compositions designed for the wider public
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Copland: Major Works
BalletsAppalachian SpringRodeoBilly the Kid
OrchestralThird SymphonyLincoln Portrait
PianoPiano VariationsPiano FantasySonata
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Appalachian Spring
Written in 1945Choreographed by Martha GrahamPart of the post-war interest in Americana.The ballet itself has faded, but the musical score continues as standard repertory for most orchestras worldwide.
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Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring (1945)
Sections 1, 2, 5, and 6Aaron Copland conducting the New York Philharmonic
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Early Jazz
The 12-bar Bluesa a’ bAs many stanzas as you wantImprovised sections, sometimes sung
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Early Jazz
Sippie Wallace: “If You Ever Been Down” Blues
Louis Armstrong on trumpet
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Swing
Big-band compositionsPartly notated, partly improvisedTypically full-band sections were alternated with individual instrumental improvisations
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Duke Ellington
Conga Brava (1940)
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George Gershwin
Primarily a songwriter and Broadway composerAlso wrote some memorable movie scoresNever a highly trained composer, more an instinctive composer with one of the great lyrical talents of all time.
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Rhapsody in Blue (1923)
Big concert hitA bit from the 1923 recording
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Prelude No. 1 (1926)
First of a set of threeGeorge himself playing it
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Gershwin in Hollywood
1936 - 1937Planned as a short trip to write a musical for Fred Astaire and Ginger RogersOne of his very best scores “Shall We Dance”, although it received only a lukewarm reception at the time
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Gershwin in Hollywood
Hated HollywoodDated some starlets, including Paulette Goddard (who eventually married Charlie Chaplin)Began complaining of headaches
His overall mood had been low alreadyPeople tended to dismiss itBut it was a brain tumorHe collapsed and died in 1937, at the age of 38
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George Gershwin
“They Can't Take That Away from Me”from
“Shall We Dance” (RKO, 1937)Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
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John Cage
Experimental ideas in musicThe music itself hasn’t survived to speak ofSome of the questions were worth asking, however
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John Cage
4’33”
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Minimalism
Reaction against:1) the forbidding cerebralism of serial and other forms of avant-garde music2) John Cage and his followers
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Minimalism
Composers had grown up with sound recording and the techniques of the recording studioMinimalism drew a significant amount of inspiration from popular music, especially rock recordings from the 1960s such as The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
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Minimalism
Terry RileyPhillip GlassSteve ReichJohn Adams
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Steve Reich
Music for 18 Musicians (1974–76)
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The 21st Century
Minimalism endedA “neo-Romantic” movement arose in the 1990sSlowly but surely, a new language is arising, one that is a synthesis of the many different idioms and styles that characterize today’s world
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John Adams
El Niño2000
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El Niño
An oratorio on the same subject as Handel’s MessiahContains arias, recitatives, choruses—but was also planned as multimedia, and is multitextual as wellThe selections are the first three numbers from the second half
A lullaby to the infant child (in Spanish)Herod’s meeting with the three wise men (from Matthew)Isaiah’s warnings on those who do evil
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El Niño
Due to the fluidity of the musical settings, the animated charts cannot follow all parts of the selections precisely
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