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
Listening Example 3. Sioux Grass Dance (excerpt)
Sound Instruments
Contemporary Indian Song
Professional Musicians
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Suggestions for Further Listening
Videos
Critical Thinking
Chapter 2. Folk Music
Spanish Traditions
Listening Example 4. Anonymous, El cutillo
Alabados
British Traditions
Folk Ballads
Listening Example 5. Anonymous, “Barbara Allen”
Early American Folk Music
Listening Example 6. Anonymous, “Shenandoah”
African Traditions
Field Hollers
Listening Example 7. Field Holler
Listening Example 8. Father’s Field Call
Listening Example 9. Complaint Call
Ring Shouts
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
Listening Example 14. William Billings, “When Jesus Wept”
Fuging Tunes
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 American Theater
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
Listening Example 18. Carter Family, “There’ll be Joy, Joy, Joy” (excerpt)
Listening Example 19. Anonymous, "Amazing Grace”
Black Spirituals
Spirituals As Concert Music
Listening Example 20. Anonymous, "Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen"
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
Listening Example 22. Daniel Decatur Emmett, “I Wish I Was in Dixie’s Land”
James A. Bland (1854-1911)
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
Listening Example 26. Louis Moreau Gottschalk, “Le bananier”
Orchestral Music
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)
Other Members of the School
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944)
Listening Example 27. Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, Symphony no. 2 in e Minor (Gaelic), 2nd movement
Edward MacDowell (1860-1908)
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
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)
Listening Example 32. Cole Porter, “Night and Day”
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
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)
Listening Example 33. Jimmie Rodgers, Blue Yodel No. 9
The Carter Family
Listening Example 34. The Carter Family, “Chinese Breakdown”
Styles of Country Music
American Folk Ballads
Listening Example 35. Anonymous, “The Ballad of Casey Jones”
Bluegrass
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
Listening Example 39. Anonymous, “Tu le ton son ton”
Urban Folk Music
Woody Guthrie (1914-1967)
The Movement Evolves
Bob Dylan (1941- )
A New Romance
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Suggestions for Further Listening
Suggestion for Viewing
Critical Thinking
Chapter 12. The Jazz Age
Blues
Rural Blues
Listening Example 40. Robert Johnson, “Hellhound on My Trail”
Country or Rural Blues
Classic Blues
Listening Example 41. Bessie Smith, “Lost Your Head Blues”
Urban Blues
Listening Example 42. W. C. Handy, St. Louis Blues
New Orleans Jazz
Louis Armstrong (1900-1971)
Listening Example 43. Lillian Hardin Armstrong, “Hotter Than That” (excerpt)
Chicago Jazz
Jazz Piano
Boogie-Woogie
Listening Example 44. Albert Ammons, “Shout for Joy”
Stride Piano
Listening Example 45. James P. Johnson, “Carolina Shout”
Sweet Jazz
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Optional Listening Examples
Suggestions for Further Listening
Suggestion for Viewing
Critical Thinking
Chapter 13. Jazz 1930-1960
Big Band Swing
Art of Arranging
Listening Example 46. Count Basie, Lester Young, arr., “Taxi War Dance”
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (1899-1974)
Listening Example 47. Duke Ellington, Mood Indigo
Women in Jazz
Reactions Against Big Band Music
Billie Holiday (1915-1959)
Bebop
Charlie “Bird” Parker (1920-1955)
John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie (1917-1993)
Listening Example 48. Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, “KoKo”
Jazz As Concert Music
Jazz Composition
Listening Example 49. Duke Ellington, Concerto for Cootie
Progressive Jazz
Listening Example 50. Paul Desmond, “Take Five” (excerpt)
Cool Jazz
Listening Example 50. Miles Davis, “Boplicity”
Hard Bop (Funk, Soul)
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Optional Listening Example
Suggestions for Further Listening
Suggestions for Viewing
Critical Thinking
Chapter 14. Jazz Since 1960
Charles Mingus (1922-1979)
Free Jazz
Listening Example 52. John Coltrane, “A Love Supreme, Part I, “Acknowledgement”
Third Stream
The Seventies
Fusion (Jazz-Rock)
Listening Example 53. Chick Corea, “Stretch It,” Part I
Integration of Foreign Sounds
The Eighties
Crossover Music
Traditionalism
The Nineties and Beyond
Henry Threadgill (1944 - _
Anthony Braxton (1945 - )
Anthony Davis (1951 - )
Wynton Marsalis (1961 - )
Jazz Today and Tomorrow
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Optional Listening Example
Suggestions for Further Listening
Critical Thinking
Part 3 Summary
PART 4. A DIVERSITY OF POPULAR MUSICS
Vernacular Art
Vernacular Music
Chapter 15. Latin Popular Musics
The Caribbean
Bomba
Rumba
Cu-bop
Mambo
Listening Example 54. Rubén Blades, Willie Colon, “Ojos”
Salsa
Reggae
Calypso
Brazil
Samba and Bossa Nova
Listening Example 55. Antônio Carlos Jobim, “Desafinado” (“Off Key”)
Mexico
Tejano/Norteño Music
Mariachis
Listening Example 56. Anonymous, “Jarabe Tapatío”
Latin Music Today
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Suggestions for Further Listening
Suggestions for Viewing
Critical Thinking
Chapter 16. Rock and Roll
The Generation Gap
Gospel
Rhythm and Blues
Country Music Meets R&B
Birth of Rock and Roll
Bill Haley (1925-1981)
Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
Early Characteristics
Listening Example 57. Chuck Berry, “School Day”
Surfing Music
Motown
Listening Example 58. The Supremes, “Stop! In the Name of Love”
The British Invasion
Back to Black Rock
Soul
Listening Example 59. James Brown, “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag”
Funk
Listening Example 60. Bob Dylan, “Mr. Tambourine Man”
From Rock and Roll to Rock
Folk Rock
Acid Rock
Psychedelic Blues
Heavy Metal
A Future Unassured
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Suggestions for Further Listening
Suggestion for Viewing
Suggestion for Reading
Critical Thinking
Chapter 17. Popular Music since 1970
Singer/Songwriters
Art Rock
Disco
Punk
Grunge
New Wave
Electronic Dance Music
Hip-Hop and Rap
Social Concerns
Back to the Roots
Contemporary Black Gospel
The Future Is Here
Music Business
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Suggestions for Listening
Critical Thinking
Part 4 Summary
PART 5. MUSIC FOR THEATER AND FILM
Chapter 18. Musical Theater
Variety Shows
Vaudeville
Burlesque
Revues
Listening Example 61. Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes, “Shine On, Harvest Moon”
Operetta
Gilbert and Sullivan
American Operettas
Musical Comedies
George M. Cohan (1878-1942)
Listening Example 62. George M. Cohan, “Give My Regards to Broadway”
Black Musical Theater
Jerome Kern’s Show Boat
Listening Example 63. Jerome Kern, “Ol’ Man River”
Golden Age of Broadway Musicals (1930-1955)
Rodgers and Hart
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Expansion of the Broadway Musical
Lerner and Loewe
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Listening Example 64. Leonard Bernstein, “Tonight”
Stephen Sondheim (1930- )
Listening Example 65. Stephen Sondheim, “Every Day a Little Death”
More Black Musicals
The Music of Musicals
Current Trends
From Film to Broadway
Effects Other than Music
Terms to Review
Suggestions for Further Listening
Suggestions for Viewing
Critical Thinking
Chapter 19. Music for Films
Functions of Music in Film
Source versus Functional Music
History of Music in Films
Silent Films
Early Sound Films
Movie Musicals
The Hollywood Sound
Listening Example 66. John Williams, Star Wars Main Title
Pop Scores
Electronic Music
Movie Musicals Revived
Current Trends
The Composer’s Perspective
Techniques
Film Score Performances and Recordings
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Suggestions for Further Listening
Critical Thinking
Chapter 20. American Opera
Opera
Solo and Ensemble Singing
Opera in America
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989)
George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess
Listening Example 67. George Gershwin, “Bess, You Is My Woman Now” (from Porgy and Bess)
Gian-Carlo Menotti (1911- )
The Trend toward Realism
Listening Example 68. Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, Einstein on the Beach (excerpt)
Opera or Musical: Which Is It?
American Opera Today
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Optional Listening Examples
Suggestions for Further Listening
Critical Thinking
Part 5. Summary
PART 6. TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN CONCERT MUSIC
Music for the Concert Hall: Historical and Cultural Perspective
Interaction between the Arts
The Value of Chance
American Concert Music
Chapter 21. Experimental Music: Revolution
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Philosophy of Music
Instrumental Compositions
Listening Example 69. Charles Ives, “General Putnam’s Camp” from Three Places in New England
Songs
Listening Example 70. Charles Ives, “At the River”
Other Characteristics of Ives’s Music
Ives’s Place in History
Henry Cowell (1897-1965)
Early Compositions
Piano Experiments
Listening Example 71. Henry Cowell, “The Banshee” (excerpt)
Sources of Inspiration
Writings
Concrete Music
John Cage (1912-1992)
Gamelan Music
Listening Example 72. Kebjar Hudjan Mas (excerpt)
Prepared Piano
Listening Example 73. John Cage, The Perilous Night
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Optional Listening Examples
Suggestions for Further Listening
Critical Thinking
Chapter 22. Early Twentieth-Century Mainstream Concert Music: Evolution
The Paris Scene
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Depression and War Years
Listening Example 74. Aaron Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man
Music for Dance
Listening Example 75. Aaron Copland, “Hoedown” from Rodeo
Later Works
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Listening Example 76. Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings
Harlem Renaissance
William Grand Still (1895-1978)
Listening Example 77. William Grant Still, Afro-American Symphony, third movement
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Optional Listening Examples
Suggestions for Further Listening
Critical Thinking
Chapter 23. The Avant-Garde Continued
Rhythm and Timbre
Harry Partch (1901-1974)
Tape Music and the Electronic Synthesizer
Milton Babbitt (1916 - )
John Cage and Chance Music
Silence
Other Composers of Chance Music
Notation
Pauline Oliveros (1932 - )
Listening Example 79. Pauline Oliveros, Sound Patterns: for Mixed Chorus a cappella
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Optional Listening Example
Suggestions for Further Listening
Critical Thinking
Chapter 24. The Recent Mainstream
The Elements of Music
New Concepts of Form
William Schuman (1910-1992)
Lou Harrison (1917-2003)
Minimalism
Terry Riley (1935- )
Philip Glass (1937- )
Women in Music
Listening Example 81. Gwyneth Walker, “Maggie and Millie and Molly and May” from Though Love Be a Day
A Promise of New Sounds
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Optional Listening Example
Suggestions for Further Listening
Critical Thinking
Part 6 Summary
Glossary
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