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America's Musical Landscapeaddresses the broad range of music in the United States from early periods to today. This comprehensive yet accessible text offers an elegant and readable introduction to the fundamentals of music, assuming no prior music experience for the student. Frequent connections to other arts, particularly the visual arts, add to the book's appeal and enhance understanding of core musical concepts. The sixth edition emphasizes vernacular over classical music and recent examples over early music, while offering generous coverage of the complete American musical landscape.

Listening Examples
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
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
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
Critical Thinking
Chapter 2. Early Folk Music
Spanish Traditions
Alabados
Corridos
Listening Example 4: Anonymous, "El corrido de Gregorio Cortez"
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
Listening Example 9:Jesse Bradley, "Hammer, Ring" (excerpt)
Freedom Songs<4>Musical Instruments
Listening Example 10: "No More Auction Block for Me"
What of African Music Survives Today?
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Critical Thinking
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
Critical Thinking
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
Critical Thinking
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
Listening Example 20: Lowell Mason, "Nearer, My God, to Thee"
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Critical Thinking
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
Critical Thinking
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
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
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 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 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
Critical Thinking
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
Critical Thinking
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 42. Duke Ellington, Concerto for Cootie
Progressive Jazz
Listening Example 43. Paul Desmond, "Take Five" (excerpt)
Cool Jazz
Listening Example 44. Miles Davis, "Boplicity"
Hard Bop
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Critical Thinking
Chapter 11. Country Music
From Country to City
Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933)
Listening Example 45. Jimmie Rodgers, Blue Yodel No. 9
The Carter Family
Styles of Country Music
American Folk Ballads
Listening Example 46. Anonymous, "The Ballad of Casey Jones"
Bluegrass
Listening Example 47. Earl Scruggs, "Earl's Breakdown"
Country Pop and the Nashville Sound
Western Swing
Honky-Tonk
Cowboy Songs
Hawaiian Music
Listening Example 48: Danny Ku, "Mele of My Tutu E"
Cajun Music
Listening Example 49. Anonymous, Cajun Two-Step (excerpt)
Zydeco
Women in Country
Recent Country
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Critical Thinking
Chapter 12. Latin Popular Musics
The Caribbean
Santeria: The Way of the Saints
Bomba
Rumba
Cu-bop
Mambo
Salsa
Listening Example 50. Ruben Blades and Willie Colon, "Ojos" (Eyes)
Brazil
Samba and Bossa Nova
Listening Example 51. Antonio Carlos Jobim, "Desafinado" ("Off Key")
Mexico
Tejano and Norteño Music
Conjunto
Mariachis
Latin Music Today
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Critical Thinking
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 52. Chuck Berry, "School Days"
End of the First Era
Surfing Music
Motown
Listening Example 53. The Supremes, "Stop! In the Name of Love"
The British Invasion
Back to Black Rock
Gospel
Listening Example 54. Sister Rosetta Tharpe: "Down by the Riverside"
Soul
Listening Example 55. 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
Critical Thinking
Chapter 14. Rock Flirts with Country
Urban Folk Music
Woody Guthrie (1914-1967)
The Urban Folk Revival
Bob Dylan (1941- )
Folk Rock
Listening Example 56. Bob Dylan, "Mr. Tambourine Man"
Newport Folk Festival, 1965
Alternative Country
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Critical Thinking
Chapter 15. Jazz Since 1960
Free Jazz
Listening Example 57. John Coltrane, "A Love Supreme," Part I, "Acknowledgement" (excerpt)
The 1970s
Fusion (Jazz-Rock)
Integration of Foreign Sounds
The 1980s and Beyond
Crossover Music
Traditionalism
The 1990s and Beyond
Henry Threadgill (b. 1944)
Anthony Braxton (b. 1945)
Wynton Marsalis (b. 1961)
Jazz Today and Tomorrow
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Critical Thinking
Chapter 16. Popular Music since 1970
Singer-Songwriters
Art Rock
Disco
Punk
New Wave
Grunge
Electronic Dance Music
Pop Music and Politics
Looking Forward, Backward, and Abroad
Hip-Hop and Rap
Reggae
The Rise of Hip-Hop
Rap
Listening Example 58. "Rapper's Delight" (excerpt)
Social Concerns
Back to the Roots
Music Business
Sharing Music
Marketing Music
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Critical Thinking
Part 4 Summary
Part 5 Music for Theater and Film
Music and Theater: Historical and Cultural Perspective
Musical Theater in America
Broadway Musicals
Operas
Films
Chapter 17 Musical Theater
Variety Shows
Vaudeville
Burlesque
Revues
Operetta
Gilbert and Sullivan
American Operettas
Musical Comedies
George M. Cohan (1878-1942)
Listening Example 59. George M. Cohan, "Give My Regards to Broadway" (from Little Johnny Jones)
Black Musical Theater
Jerome Kern's Show Boat
Listening Example 60: Jerome Kern, "Ol' Man River" (from Show Boat)
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 61: Leonard Bernstein, "Tonight" (from Westside Story)
Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930)
Listening Example 62. Stephen Sondheim, "Every Day a Little Death" (from A Little Night Music)
More Black Musicals
The Music of Musicals
Current Trends
From Film to Broadway
Effects Other than Music
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Critical Thinking
Chapter 18. Music for Films
Functions of Music in Film
Source Versus Functional Music
History of Music in Films
Silent Films
Early Sound Films
The Hollywood Sound
Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975)
Listening Example 63: Bernard Herrmann, "The Murder" (from Psycho)
John Williams (b. 1932)
Listening Example 64. 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
Critical Thinking
Chapter 19. American Opera
Opera
Solo and Ensemble Singing
Opera in America
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989)
George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
Listening Example 65: George Gershwin, "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" (from Porgy and Bess)
Gian-Carlo Menotti (1911-2007)
The Trend toward Realism
Listening Example 66: Philip Glass, "Spaceship" (from Einstein on the Beach)
Opera or Musical: Which Is It?
American Opera Today
Terms to Review
Key Figures
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 20. Experimental Music: Revolution
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Philosophy of Music
Instrumental Compositions
Listening Example 67. Charles Ives, "General Putnam's Camp" from Three Places in New England
Songs
Listening Example 68. 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 69. Henry Cowell, "The Banshee" (excerpt)
Sources of Inspiration
Writings
Concrete Music
John Cage (1912-1992)
Gamelan Music
Listening Example 70: Anonymous, Gamelan Gong Kebjar: "Hudjan Mas" (Golden Rain) (excerpt)
Prepared Piano
Listening Example 71: John Cage, Sonata V (from Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano)
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Online Listening Examples
Critical Thinking
Chapter 21 Early Twentieth-Century Mainstream Concert Music: Evolution
The Parisian Scene
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Depression and War Years
Listening Example 72. Aaron Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man
Music for Dance
Listening Example 73. Aaron Copland, "Hoedown" (from Rodeo)
Later Works
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Listening Example 74. Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings
Harlem Renaissance
William Grand Still (1895-1978)
Listening Example 75. William Grant Still, Afro-American Symphony, third movement ("Humor")
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Critical Thinking
Chapter 22. The Avant-Garde, Continued
Rhythm and Timbre
Harry Partch (1901-1974)
Tape Music and the Electronic Synthesizer
Milton Babbitt (b. 1916)
Listening Example 76. Milton Babbitt, "Ensembles for Synthesizer" (excerpt)
John Cage and Chance Music
Silence
Other Composers of Chance Music
Notation
Pauline Oliveros (b.1932)
Listening Example 77. Pauline Oliveros, "Sound Patterns"
Terms to Review
Key Figures
Critical Thinking
Chapter 23. The Recent Mainstream
The Elements of Music
New Concepts of Form
William Schuman (1910-1992)
Listening Example 78. William Schuman, New England Triptych, third movement, "Chester"
Minimalism
Terry Riley (b. 1935)
Philip Glass (b. 1937)
Gwyneth Walker (b. 1947)
Listening Example 79. 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
Critical Thinking
PART 6 Summary
The Charge
Glossary
Credits
Index

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America's Musical Landscape

America's Musical Landscape

0073401404

Summary

Table of Contents

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

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

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

Critical Thinking

Chapter 2. Early Folk Music

Spanish Traditions

Alabados

Corridos

Listening Example 4: Anonymous, "El corrido de Gregorio Cortez"

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

Listening Example 9:Jesse Bradley, "Hammer, Ring" (excerpt)

Freedom Songs<4>Musical Instruments

Listening Example 10: "No More Auction Block for Me"

What of African Music Survives Today?

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Critical Thinking

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)