Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
Purchase Benefits
What is included with this book?
Rhythm
Meter
Melody
Harmony
Timbre
Native Americans
European Emigrants
Puritan Society
Texture
Texts
Alabados
Corridos
Folk Ballads
Field Hollers
Ring Shouts
Work Songs
Freedom Songs
Musical Instruments
Psalters
German-Speaking Protestant Sects
The Great Awakening
Canons
Fuging Tunes
Independence
The Unknown
Love of Nature
"Amazing Grace"
Black Spirituals
Spirituals As Concert Music
The Heritage of Minstrelsy
Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore (1829-1892)
Theodore Thomas (1835-1905)
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)
John Knowles Paine (1839-1906)
Fugue
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944)
Edward MacDowell (1860-1908)
Vernacular Art and Literature
Vernacular Music
Marches
Scott Joplin (1868-1917)
Influence of Ragtime
The Songs
Barbershop Singing
Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
Jerome Kern (1885-1945)
Cole Porter (1892-1964)
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Decline of Tin Pan Alley
Rural or Country Blues
Classic Blues
Urban Blues
Boogie-Woogie
Stride Piano
Art of Arranging
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974)
Billie Holiday (1915-1959)
Charlie "Bird" Parker (1920-1955)
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (1917-1993)
Jazz Composition
Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933)
The Carter Family
American Folk Ballads
Bluegrass
Country Pop and the Nashville Sound
Western Swing
Honky-Tonk
Cowboy Songs
Hawaiian Music
Cajun Music
Zydeco
Santeria: The Way of the Saints
Bomba
Rumba
Cu-bop
Mambo
Salsa
Samba and Bossa Nova
Tejano and Norteño Music
Conjunto
Mariachis
Country Music Meets R&B
Bill Haley (1925-1981)
Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
Early Characteristics
Gospel
Soul
Funk
Psychedelic Rock
Psychedelic Blues
Heavy Metal
Woody Guthrie (1914-1967)
The Urban Folk Revival
Bob Dylan (b. 1941)
Newport Folk Festival, 1965
Fusion (Jazz-Rock)
Integration of Foreign Sounds
Crossover Music
Traditionalism
Henry Threadgill (b. 1944)
Anthony Braxton (b. 1945)
Wynton Marsalis (b. 1961)
Reggae
The Rise of Hip-Hop
Rap
Social Concerns
Back to the Roots
Sharing Music
Marketing Music
Musical Theater in America
Broadway Musicals
Operas
Films
Vaudeville
Burlesque
Revues
Gilbert and Sullivan
American Operettas
George M. Cohan (1878-1942)
Rodgers and Hart
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Lerner and Loewe
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930)
Listening Example 63. Stephen Sondheim, "Every Day a Little Death" (from A Little Night Music)
More Black Musicals
The Music of Musicals
Current Trends