Download or read book The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era 1924 1950 written by Allen Forte and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking book, Allen Forte uses modern analytical procedures to explore the large repertoire of beautiful love songs written during the heyday of American musical theater, the Big Bands, and Tin Pan Alley. Covering the work of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Harold Arlen, he seeks to illuminate this extraordinary music indigenous to America by revealing its deeper organizational characteristics. In so doing, he aims to establish it as a unique corpus of music that deserves more intensive study and appreciation by scholars and connoisseurs in the broader fields of American popular music and jazz. Expressing much of the traditional tonality associated with European music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the love songs of the Golden Age are shown to draw on a rich variety of elements--popular harmony, idiomatic lyric-writing, and Afro-American dance rhythms. His analyses of such songs as "Embraceable You" or "Yesterdays" in particular exemplify his ability to convey the sublime, unpretentious simplicity of this great music.

Download or read book A Short History of Jazz written by Bob Yurochko and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Jazz Standards written by Ted Gioia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-18 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's acclaimed compendium of jazz standards, featuring 15 additional selections, hundreds of additional recommended tracks, and enhancements and additions on almost every page. Since the first edition of The Jazz Standards was published in 2012, author Ted Gioia has received almost non-stop feedback and suggestions from the passionate global community of jazz enthusiasts and performers requesting crucial additions and corrections to the book. In this second edition, Gioia expands the scope of the book to include more songs, and features new recordings by rising contemporary artists. The Jazz Standards is an essential comprehensive guide to some of the most important jazz compositions, telling the story of more than 250 key jazz songs and providing a listening guide to more than 2,000 recordings. The fan who wants to know more about a tune heard at the club or on the radio will find this book indispensable. Musicians who play these songs night after night will find it to be a handy guide, as it outlines the standards' history and significance and tells how they have been performed by different generations of jazz artists. Students learning about jazz standards will find it to be a go-to reference work for these cornerstones of the repertoire. This book is a unique resource, a browser's companion, and an invaluable introduction to the art form.

Download or read book The Poets of Tin Pan Alley written by Philip Furia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein, so the story goes, once overheard someone praise "Ol' Man River" as a "great Kern song." "I beg your pardon," she said, "But Jerome Kern did not write 'Ol' Man River.' Mr. Kern wrote dum dum dum da; my husband wrote ol' man river." It's easy to understand her frustration. While the years between World Wars I and II have long been hailed as the "golden age" of American popular song, it is the composers, not the lyricists, who always usually get top billing. "I love a Gershwin tune" too often means just that-the tune-even though George Gershwin wrote many unlovable tunes before he began working with his brother Ira in 1924. Few people realize that their favorite "Arlen" songs each had a different lyricist-Ted Koehler for "Stormy Weather," Yip Harburg for "Over the Rainbow," Johnny Mercer for "That Old Black Magic." Only Broadway or Hollywood buffs know which "Kern" songs get their wry touch from Dorothy Fields, who would flippantly rhyme "fellow" with "Jello," and which of Kern's sonorous melodies got even lusher from Otto Harbach, who preferred solemn rhymes like "truth" and "forsooth." Jazz critics sometimes pride themselves on ignoring the lyrics to Waller and Ellington "instrumentals," blithely consigning Andy Razaf or Don George to oblivion"--

Download or read book Magic Moments written by Charles Barnett and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic Moments is an eclectic assortment of short pieces tha examine life and love. Most are taken from moments with one of two little poodles. Sometimes they are silent. Sometimes they talk back. Other pieces explore science and tracel to faraway places like the Arctic and the Amazon without poodles - just people. Take your pick. If there's romance and wonder in your heart you'll find something to warm the silent moments as you drift off to sleep.

Download or read book Big Band Swing Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Paperback Songs). Lots of huge hits in a little book! Includes 112 swinging favorites: Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive * Ain't Misbehavin' * Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much) * Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea * Blue Skies * Body and Soul * Caravan * Cherokee (Indian Love Song) * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree * Heart and Soul * I'm Beginning to See the Light * I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm * In the Mood * Jump, Jive an' Wail * Mood Indigo * Prelude to a Kiss * Route 66 * Satin Doll * Sentimental Journey * Stella by Starlight * Stormy Weather * Tangerine * Tuxedo Junction * The Very Thought of You * What's New? * and more! Includes a Guitar Chord Guide.

Download or read book I ll Be Seeing You Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). A salute to the music and memories of WWII, including a year-by-year chronology of events on the homefront, dozens of photos, and 51 radio favorites of the GIs and their families back home, including: Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy * Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me) * I Don't Want to Walk Without You * I'll Be Seeing You * Moonlight in Vermont * There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere * You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To * and more.

Download or read book The Letters of Cole Porter written by Cole Porter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive collection of the letters of one of the most successful American songwriters of the twentieth century From Anything Goes to Kiss Me, Kate, Cole Porter left a lasting legacy of iconic songs including "You're the Top," "Love For Sale," and "Night and Day." Yet, alongside his professional success, Porter led an eclectic personal life which featured exuberant parties, scandalous affairs, and chronic health problems. This extensive collection of letters (most of which are published here for the first time) dates from the first decade of the twentieth century to the early 1960s and features correspondence with stars such as Irving Berlin, Ethel Merman, and Orson Welles, as well as his friends and lovers. Cliff Eisen and Dominic McHugh complement these letters with lively commentaries that draw together the loose threads of Porter’s life and highlight the distinctions between Porter’s public and private existence. This book reveals surprising insights into his attitudes toward Hollywood and Broadway, and toward money, love, and dazzling success.

Download or read book Children s Guided Participation in Jazz Improvisation written by Guro Gravem Johansen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improbasen is a Norwegian private learning centre that offers beginner's instrumental tuition within jazz improvisation for children between the ages of 7 and 15. This book springs out of a two-year ethnographic study of the teaching and learning activity at Improbasen, highlighting features from the micro-interactions within the lessons, the organisation of Improbasen, and its international activity. Music teachers, students, and scholars within music education as well as jazz research will benefit from the perspectives presented in the book, which shows how children systematically acquire tools for improvisation and shared codes for interplay. Through a process of guided participation in jazz culture, even very young children are empowered to take part in a global, creative musical practice with improvisation as an educational core. This book critically engages in current discussions about jazz pedagogy, inclusion and gender equity, beginning instrumental tuition, creativity, and authenticity in childhood.

Download or read book The Best of Everything written by Francine Craft and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling beauty salon owner and widow Sherrie Pinson finds herself falling in love with her late husband's best friend Byron Tate, who has helped her through a difficult time, but a faceless enemy is determined to keep them apart. Original.

Download or read book Jazz Standards Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Paperback Songs). 110 classics, including: All the things You Are * Autumn in New York * Bewitched * Cry Me a River * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * A Fine Romance * I Can't Get Started With You * I've Got You Under My Skin * The Lady Is a Tramp * Manhattan * Misty * My Funny Valentine * Old Devil Moon * Prelude to a Kiss * Route 66 * Smoke Gets in Your Eyes * There's a Small Hotel * When Sunny Gets Blue * You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To * and more.

Download or read book A Cole Porter Companion written by Don M. Randel and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balancing sophisticated melodies and irresistible rhythms with lyrics by turns cynical and passionate, Cole Porter sent American song soaring on gossamer wings. Timeless works like "I Get a Kick Out of You" and "At Long Last Love" made him an essential figure in the soundtrack of a century and earned him adoration from generations of music lovers. In A Cole Porter Companion, a parade of performers and scholars offers essays on little-known aspects of the master tunesmith's life and art. Here are Porter's days as a Yale wunderkind and his nights as the exemplar of louche living; the triumph of Kiss Me Kate and shocking failure of You Never Know; and his spinning rhythmic genius and a turkey dinner into "You're the Top" while cultural and economic forces take "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" in unforeseen directions. Other entries explore notes on ongoing Porter scholarship and delve into his formative works, performing career, and long-overlooked contributions to media as varied as film and ballet. Prepared with the cooperation of the Porter archives, A Cole Porter Companion is an invaluable guide for the fans and scholars of this beloved American genius.

Download or read book Good A Nightingale Sang written by C. P. Taylor and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good is a story about a liberal-minded university professor who drifts well-meaningly into a position in the upper reaches of the Nazi administration. It is a profound and alarming examination of passivity and the rationalisation of evil. John Halder, a professor of literature, seems to be a good man; he diligently visits his blind and senile mother and looks after his vacant wife and three children. He is unremarkable, other than an unusual neurotic tic: the imaginary sound of band music plays in the background of his life, particularly at moments of high emotion. But by writing a book – the result of his own experience – discussing euthanasia for senile elderly people and by lecturing on the delicacy of German literary culture, John has unintentionally made himself a very desirable acquisition for the Nazi party. By rationalised and intellectually reasoned steps he is absorbed into the direction of the death camps, a transformation all the more chilling because it does not seem dramatic, until the last horrible resounding note of the play. Good is a structured stream of consciousness, punctured by the musical medley that plays inside Halder's head. The first production was staged at the London Warehouse in 1982. And A Nightingale Sang . . . opens on a house in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne filled with well-meant and bustling domestic chaos. Set just before the beginning of the war, the scenes are partly related by Helen, who is stoical and self-deprecating and walks with a limp. Her grandfather Andie is recruiting mourners to attend the burial of his dog; her devout Catholic mother is fretting about the health of the local priest; her father is serenading an unwilling audience with the popular songs that light up the whole play. Joyce, Helen's younger, prettier sister is dithering over whether to accept a marriage proposal from Eric, who is being deployed to France. Helen, depended on for guidance by the whole family, has never had any attention from men – until she meets Norman, who shows her that she can waltz and fall in love. But for all the family, nothing can be the same after the war. And A Nightingale Sang . . . was first staged in 1977 by Live Theatre in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, and was presented in this version at the Queen's Theatre, London, in 1979.

Download or read book Prudence written by David Treuer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting and unforgettable novel about love, loss, race, and desire in World War II–era America. On a sweltering day in August 1942, Frankie Washburn returns to his family’s rustic Minnesota resort for one last visit before he joins the war as a bombardier, headed for the darkened skies over Europe. Awaiting him at the Pines are those he’s about to leave behind: his hovering mother; the distant father to whom he’s been a disappointment; the Indian caretaker who’s been more of a father to him than his own; and Billy, the childhood friend who over the years has become something much more intimate. But before the homecoming can be celebrated, the search for a German soldier, escaped from the POW camp across the river, explodes in a shocking act of violence, with consequences that will reverberate years into the future for all of them and that will shape how each of them makes sense of their lives. With Prudence, Treuer delivers his most ambitious and captivating novel yet. Powerful and wholly original, it’s a story of desire and loss and the search for connection in a riven world; of race and class in a supposedly more innocent era. Most profoundly, it’s about the secrets we choose to keep, the ones we can’t help but tell, and who—and how—we’re allowed to love.

Download or read book Jazz Performer Uniquely Christmas written by Bill Cunliffe and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These arrangements were inspired by Bill Cunliffe’s CD That Time of Year, containing freely improvised jazz interpretations of ageless carols. The music is filled with many influences---from bebop and swing to Baroque music, Impressionism, and modern jazz. Titles: * Angels from the Realms of Glory * Coventry Carol * God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen * Jingle Bells * Silent Night * Ukrainian Bell Carol * We Three Kings

Download or read book Straight Life written by Art Pepper and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Pepper (1925-1982) was called the greatest alto saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. But his autobiography, Straight Life, is much more than a jazz book--it is one of the most explosive, yet one of the most lyrical, of all autobiographies. This edition is updated with an extensive afterword by Laurie Pepper covering Art Pepper's last years, and a complete and up-to-date discography by Todd Selbert.

Download or read book Jazz Performer Holiday Inspirations written by Paul Johnston and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains favorite music of the Christmas season, with fresh, jazzy arrangements. Each piece contains a written-out solo section, so even musicians unfamiliar with playing jazz can sound as if they’re improvising a solo. Titles: * Angels We Have Heard on High * Away in a Manger * Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella * Deck the Halls * God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen * It Came Upon the Midnight Clear * Jingle Bells * Joy to the World * Lo! How a Rose E’er Blooming * Silent Night. ". . . after playing through this book, I feel I have taken a crash course on improvisation! Every piece in the book contains a written-out improvisation solo, so even if you are not a jazz musician, you can 'fake' it by just learning the notes as written! The amazing thing is, after a while, you cannot help but experiment with your own improvisations!" --Yiyi Ku, Music Teachers Helper Blog