America's Musical Landscape - Brossura

Ferris, Jean

Brossura

ISBN 10: 007298919X ISBN 13: 9780072989199

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2005

Riassunto

This text addresses the broad range of music in the United States from early periods to today, presenting this rich tapestry of sound in its historical and cultural context. Its reasonable length, readability, and logical organization make the text a useful and attractive means of furthering appreciation of the musical heritage of the United States. Frequent connections to other arts, particularly the visual arts, add to the book's appeal and enhance understanding of core musical concepts. The text also offers an elegant and readable introduction to the fundamentals of music.

To order the text packaged with a set of three CDs of recorded examples, at a discounted price, use ISBN 0-07-304387-7.

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*new or expanded coverage

Optional Listening Examples

Preface

Chronology of Figures and Events

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. George R. Poulton, “Love Me Tender”

Terms to Review

Suggestions for Further Listening

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

Texts

Listening Example 2. Yeibichai Chant Song (excerpt)

Sioux Grass Dance

Sound Instruments

Listening Example 3. Sioux Grass Dance (excerpt)

Contemporary Indian Song

Professional Musicians

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Suggestions for Further Listening

Suggestions for Viewing

Critical Thinking

Chapter 2. Folk Music

*Spanish Traditions

Listening Example 4. Anonymous, El cutillo

Alabados

British Traditions

Folk Ballads

Early American Folk Music

Listening Example 5. Anonymous, “Barbara Allen”

*African Traditions

Listening Example 6. Anonymous, “Shenandoah”

Field Hollers

*Listening Example 7. Field Holler

*Listening Example 8. Father’s Field Call

Ring Shouts

Listening Example 9. Complaint Call

Work Songs

*Listening Example 10. Anonymous, “Hammer, Ring” (excerpt)

Musical Instruments

What of African Music Survives Today?

Terms to Review

Suggestions for Further Listening

Critical Thinking

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

Music at the Spanish Mission

Psalm Tunes

Psalters

Listening Example 11. Louis Bourgeois, “Old Hundred”

Other Protestant Music

German-Speaking Protestant Sects

Listening Example 12. John Antes, “Surely He Has Borne Our Griefs”

The Great Awakening

Early Efforts at Musical Reform

The Singing School Movement

William Billings

Listening Example 13. William Billings, “Chester”

Canons

Fuging Tunes

Listening Example 14. William Billings, “When Jesus Wept”

Listening Example 15. Daniel Read, “Sherburne”

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Optional Listening Example

Suggestions for Further Listening

Critical Thinking

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

Music in Everyday Experience

Prestigious Musical Amateurs

Professional Composers

Listening Example 16. Alexander Reinagle, Sonata in E for the Piano Forte, third movement.

Early Bands

Listening Example 17. Anonymous, “Yankee Doodle” (excerpt)

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Optional Listening Example

Suggestions for Further Listening

Critical Thinking

Part 1 Summary

PART 2. THE TUMULTUOUS NINETEENTH CENTURY

Romanticism in America: Historical and Cultural Perspective

The Emergence of Characteristically American Art

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 18. Carter Family, “There’ll be Joy, Joy, Joy” (excerpt)

Listening Example 19. Anonymous, "Amazing Grace”

Listening Example 20. Anonymous, "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"

Spiritual as Concert Music

Singing Conventions

Further Movements to Reform Music

Lowell Mason

Listening Example 21. Lowell Mason, “Nearer, My God, to Thee”

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Suggestions for Further Listening

Suggestion for Viewing

Critical Thinking

*Chapter 6. Popular Music of the Civil War Era

Minstrelsy

James A. Bland (1854-1911)

Listening Example 22. Daniel Decatur Emmett, “I Wish I Was in Dixie’s Land”

The Heritage of Minstrelsy

Stephen Foster (1826-1864)

Listening Example 23. Stephen Foster, "I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair"

Listening Example 24. Stephen Foster, “Oh! Susanna”

Patriotic Songs

Civil War Songs

Singing Families

Concert Bands

Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore (1829-1892)

John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)

Marches

Listening Example 25. John Philip Sousa, “The Stars and Stripes Forever”

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Suggestions for Further Listening

Suggestion for Viewing

Critical Thinking

Chapter 7. Early Concert Music

Rise of Nationalism in Music

Anthony Philip Heinrich (1781-1861)

Romantic Virtuosos

The Swedish Nightingale

Ole Bull

Louis Moreau Gottschalk 91829-1869)

Piano Music

Orchestral Music

Listening Example 26. Louis Moreau Gottschalk, “Le bananier”

William Henry Fry (1813-1864)

Theodore Thomas (1835-1905)

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Optional Listening Examples

Suggestions for Further Listening

Critical Thinking

Chapter 8. American Concert Music Comes of Age: The Late Nineteenth Century

The Second New England School

John Knowles Paine (1839-1906)

Fugue

Listening Example 27. John Knowles Paine, Fuga Giocosa, Op. 41, No. 3

Other Members of the School

Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944)

Edward MacDowell (1860-1908)

*Listening Example 28. Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, Symphony no. 2 in e Minor (Gaelic), 2nd movement

Other Members of the School

Arthur Farwell and the Wa-Wan Press

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Optional Listening Examples

Suggestions for Further Listening

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 9. The Rise of Popular Culture

Ragtime

Scott Joplin (1868-1917)

Listening Example 29. Scott Joplin, “Maple Leaf Rag”

Influence of Ragtime

Tin Pan Alley

The Songs

Barbershop Singing

*Listening Example 30. George M. Cohan, “Rose” (“A Ring to the Name of Rose”)

Irving Berlin (1888-1989)

*Listening Example 31. Irving Berlin, “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”

Jerome Kern (1885-1945)

Cole Porter (1892-1964)

George Gershwin (1898-1937)

*Listening Example 32. Cole Porter, “Night and Day”

Decline of Tin Pan Alley

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Suggestions for Further Listening

Suggestion for Viewing

Critical Thinking

Chapter 10. Country Music

From Country to City

Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933)

The Carter Family

*Listening Example 33. Jimmie Rodgers, Blue Yodel No. 9

Listening Example 34. The Carter Family, “Chinese Breakdown”

Styles of Country Music

American Folk Ballads

Bluegrass

Listening Example 35. Anonymous, “The Ballad of Casey Jones”

Listening Example 36. Earl Scruggs, “Earl’s Breakdown”

Country Pop and the Nashville Sound

Country Goes Western

Western Swing

Listening Example 37. Bob Wills, “New San Antonio Rose”

Honky-Tonk

Cowboy Songs

Women in Country

Recent Country

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Optional Listening Examples

Suggestions for Further Listening

Suggestion for Viewing

Suggestion for Reading

Critical Thinking

*Chapter 11. Ethnic Traditions and the Urban Folk Revival

*Hawaiian Music

*Cajun Music

Listening Example 38. Anonymous, Cajun Two-Step (excerpt)

*Zydeco

Urban Folk Music

Woody Guthrie (1914-1967)

Listening Example 39. Anonymous, “Tu le ton son ton”

The Movement Evolves

Bob Dylan (1941- )

A New Romance

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Suggestions for Further Listening

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Book by Ferris Jean

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 007298919X
• ISBN 13: 9780072989199
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 5
• Numero di pagine: 472