Description: Online Listening Examples Preface 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. trad.: "John Henry" Terms to Review 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 Texture 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 Chapter 2. Early Folk Music Spanish Traditions Alabados Corridos Listening Example 4: Anonymous, "El corrido de Gregorio Cortez" Encore British Traditions Folk Ballads Listening Example 5: Anonymous, "Barbara Allen" Early American Folk Music Listening Example 6: Anonymous, "Shenandoah" African Traditions Field Hollers Ring Shouts Listening Example 7: Field Holler Listening Example 8: Father''s Field Call Work Songs Listening Example 9:Jesse Bradley, "Hammer, Ring" (excerpt) Freedom Songs Musical Instruments Listening Example 10: "No More Auction Block for Me" What of African Music Survives Today? Terms to Review Key Figures Chapter 3. Religious Music in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal Periods Music at the Spanish Missions Psalm Tunes Psalters Listening Example 11. Louis Bourgeois, "Old Hundred" (excerpt) Other Protestant Music Listening Example 12. Joseph Brackett, Jr., "''Tis the Gift to Be Simple" German-Speaking Protestant Sects The Great Awakening Early Efforts at Musical Reform The Singing School Movement William Billings (1746-1800) 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 Chapter 4. Secular Music in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal Periods Music in Everyday Experience Prestigious Musical Amateurs Early American Theater Early Bands Listening Example 16: Anonymous, "Yankee Doodle" (excerpt) Terms to Review Key Figures Part 1. Summary Part 2. The Tumultuous Nineteenth Century Romanticism in America: Historical and Cultural Perspective The Emergence of Characteristically American Art Independence The Unknown Love of Nature 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 17: James Macdermid. "There''ll Be Joy, Joy, Joy" (excerpt) Listening Example 18: Anonymous, "Amazing Grace" Listening Example 19: Anonymous, "Nobody Knows the Trouble I''ve Seen" (excerpt) Spirituals As Concert Music Singing Conventions Further Movements to Reform Music Lowell Mason (1792-1872) Listening Example 20: Lowell Mason, "Nearer, My God, to Thee" Terms to Review Key Figures Chapter 6. Popular Music of the Civil War Era Minstrelsy Listening Example 21: 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 22: Stephen Foster, "I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" Listening Example 23: Stephen Foster, "Oh! Susanna" Patriotic Songs Listening Example 24: John Stafford Smith, "The Anacreontick Song" Civil War Songs Singing Families Listening Example 25: Anonymous, "Get Off the Track" Concert Bands Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore (1829-1892) Terms to Review Key Figures Chapter 7. Concert Music Orchestral Music Theodore Thomas (1835-1905) Romantic Virtuosos Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) Piano Music Listening Example 26: Louis Moreau Gottschalk, "Le bananier" Rise of Nationalism in Music Second New England School John Knowles Paine (1839-1906) Listening Example 27: John Knowles Paine, Fuga giocosa, op. 41, no. 3 Fugue Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944) Listening Example 28: Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, Symphony in E minor (Gaelic), 2nd movement Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) Terms to Review Key Figures 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 8. The Rise of Popular Culture John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) Marches Listening Example 29. John Philip Sousa, "The Stars and Stripes Forever" Ragtime Scott Joplin (1868-1917) Listening Example 30. Scott Joplin, "Maple Leaf Rag" Influence of Ragtime Tin Pan Alley The Songs Barbershop Singing Listening Example 31. George M. Cohan, "Rose" ("A Ring to the Name of Rose") Irving Berlin (1888-1989) Listening Example 32. Irving Berlin, "Alexander''s Ragtime Band" Jerome Kern (1885-1945) Cole Porter (1892-1964) Listening Example 33. Cole Porter, "Night and Day" George Gershwin (1898-1937) Decline of Tin Pan Alley Terms to Review Key Figures Chapter 9. The Jazz Age Blues Rural or Country Blues Listening Example 34. Robert Johnson, "Hellhound on My Trail" Classic Blues Listening Example 35. Bessie Smith, "Lost Your Head Blues" Urban Blues Listening Example 36. W. C. Handy, St. Louis Blues New Orleans Jazz Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) Listening Example 37. Lillian Hardin Armstrong, "Hotter Than That" (excerpt) Chicago Jazz Jazz Piano Boogie-Woogie Stride Piano Listening Example 38. James P. Johnson, "Carolina Shout" Sweet Jazz Terms to Review Key Figures Chapter 10. Jazz 1930-1960 Big Band Swing Art of Arranging Listening Example 39. Count Basie, Lester Young, arr., "Taxi War Dance" (excerpt) Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974) Listening Example 40. Duke Ellington, "Mood Indigo" Women in Jazz Rise of Big Band Vocalists Billie Holiday (1915-1959) Bebop Charlie "Bird" Parker (1920-1955) John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (1917-1993) Listening Example 42. Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, "KoKo" Jazz As Concert Music Jazz Composition Listening Example 43. Duke Ellington, Concerto for Cootie Encore Progressive Jazz Listening Example 44. Paul Desmond, "Take Five" (excerpt) Cool Jazz Listening Example 45. Miles Davis, "Boplicity" Hard Bop Terms to Review Key Figures Chapter 11. Country Music From Country to City Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933) Listening Example 46. Jimmie Rodgers, "Blue Yodel No. 9" The Carter Family Styles of Country Music American Folk Ballads Listening Example 47. Anonymous, "The Ballad of Casey Jones" Bluegrass Listening Example 48. Earl Scruggs, "Earl''s Breakdown" Country Pop and the Nashville Sound Western Swing Honky-Tonk Cowboy Songs Hawaiian Music Listening Example 49: Danny Ku, "Mele of My Tutu E" Cajun Music Listening Example 50. Anonymous, Cajun Two-Step (excerpt) Zydeco Women in Country Recent Country Terms to Review Key Figures Chapter 12. Latin Popular Musics The Caribbean Santeria: The Way of the Saints Bomba Rumba Cu-bop Mambo Salsa Listening Example 51. Ruben Blades and Willie Colon, "Ojos" (Eyes) Brazil Samba and Bossa Nova Listening Example 52. Antonio Carlos Jobim, "Desafinado" ("Off Key") Mexico Tejano and Norteo Music Conjunto Mariachis Latin Music Today Terms to Review Key Figures Part 3 Summary Part 4. Vernacular Musics Since Rock and Roll Vernacular Art Vernacular Music Chapter 13. Rock and Roll The Generation Gap 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 53. Chuck Berry, "School Days" End of the First Era Surfing Music Motown Listening Example 54. Holland, Dozier, and Holland, "Stop! In the Name of Love" The British Invasion Back to Black Rock Gospel Listening Example 55. Anonymous: "Down by the Riverside" Soul Listening Example 56. James Brown, "Papa''s Got a Brand New Bag" Funk From Rock and Roll to Rock Psychedelic Rock Psychedelic Blues Heavy Metal A Future Unassured Terms to Review Key Figures Chapter 14. Rock Flirts with Country Urban Folk Music Woody Guthrie (1914-1967) The Urban Folk Revival Bob Dylan (b. 1941) Folk Rock Listening Example 57. Bob Dylan, "Mr. Tambourine Man" Newport Folk Festival, 1965 Alternative Country Terms to Review Key Figures Chapter 15. Jazz Since 1960 Free Jazz Listening Example 58. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme-Part I, "Acknowledgement" (excerpt) The 1970s Fu

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