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Index

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Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome)

Adams, Diana

Adderley, Cannonball

Adorno, T. W.

African American culture/music; “black is beautiful,” and Christianity; and civil rights movement, and Great Migration, and harmony, and history, and melody, and Middle Passage, and religious music, and rhythm, and social distinctions, and tone colors, and Underground Railroad,
See also
race relations;
names of individual African Americans

African/West African music: African diaspora, and clave, Ewe music, and handbell, Husago dance, and melody, and rhythm, in
Such Sweet Thunder
, and tone colors, and xylophone

Afro-Cuban music

airplanes

Ajemian, Anahid

“Alexander's Ragtime Band,”

Allen, Frederick Lewis

“All Things Considered” (NPR program)

American Popular
Song (Wilder)

American Shakespeare Festival (Stratford, Conn.)

Amsterdam Star-News

Andersen, Hans Christian

Anderson, Cat

Anderson, Eddie “Rochester,”

Anderson, Elaine

Anderson, Ivie

Anderson, Marian

Andrews Sisters

Ansermet, Ernest

Antheil, George,
Ballet mécanique
,
Jazz Symphony

anticommunism

Antony and Cleopatra
(Shakespeare)

Appel, Alfred Jr.

Applebaum, Louis

“Aquashow” (Flushing Meadow Park)

Aragon, Louis

A Rebours
(Huysmans)

Arlen, Harold, “I Got a Right to Sing the Blues,” “The Man That Got Away,”
The Wizard of Oz

Armstrong, Louis, and melody, and rhythm

—music: “Copenhagen,” “Go ‘Long Mule,”– “Heebie Jeebies,” “Hello Dolly,” “Hotter than That,” “I Can't Give You Anything But Love,” “I Got a Right to Sing the Blues,” “I'm Confessin' That I Love You,” “Tiger Rag,”

Arranging for the Modern Dance Orchestra
(Lange)

“Art poétique” (Verlaine)

ASCAP

Ashby, Harold

“Ash Wednesday” (Eliot)

Asian American Orchestra

Astaire, Fred

atonality

Attucks, Crispus

Auden, W. H.

augenmusik

Autobiography
(Stravinsky)

Avakian, George

 

Babbitt, Milton,
Composition for Four Instruments

Babs, Alice

Bach, Johann Sebastian, and harmony, and history, and melody, and religious music, and rhythm, and tone colors

—music: Goldberg Variations, Prelude in B Minor,
The Well-Tempered Clavier

Bacharach, Burt

Bacon, Louis

Bacon, Roger

Baker, Chet

Baker, Harold

Balanchine, George,
Apollon musagète

Baldwin, James

ballads: jazz ballad, and love, and melody, and religious music

Ballard, Kay: “Rock and Roll Waltz,”

Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo

Balzac

Bardac, Emma Moyse

Baron, Art

Barthes, Roland

Bartlett, C. Julian

Bartlett's Quotations

Bartók, Béla, “developing variation,” and harmony, and melody, and rhythm

—music: “Alla bulgarese,”; Bagatelle op. 6 no. 13, Bagatelle op. 6 no. 6,
For Children
, Concerto for Orchestra,
Contrasts
, Divertimento, Elegies, Four Dirges, Funeral Song,
Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs
,
Kossuth
,
Mikrokosmos
; Mourning Song,
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
; “night music,”,
Out of Doors
, Quartet no. 2, Quartet no. 4, Quartet no. 6,
Romanian Dances
; Second Quartet, Seven Sketches, Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm, Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, String Quartet no. 2, String Quartet no. 5, Suite for Piano, “Syncopation” study no. 133

Basie, Count, Count Basie Orchestra, and history, and rhythm, and tone colors

—music: “April in Paris,”, “Blues in the Dark,”; “Jumpin' at the Woodside,” “Lester Leaps In,”, “Lunceford Special,” “Shiny Stockings,”

Basilica de Santa Maria del Mar (Barcelona)

“Basin Street Blues,”

Baudelaire, Charles

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Beach Boys,.
See also
Wilson, Brian

Beatles, “Eleanor Rigby,” “I Will,” “Norwegian Wood,”
Sgt. Pepper
, “Strawberry Fields,”;
“When I'm Sixty-Four,” “Yesterday,”

bebop, hard bop, and history, and melody, post-bop, and rhythm

Bechet, Sidney, “Blue Horizon,”

Beethoven, Ludwig van, and harmony, and history, and rhythm, and tone colors

—music,
Eroica
, Fifth Symphony, Ninth Symphony, “Ode to Joy,” Piano Sonata op. 31, no. 3, Seventh Symphony, Third Symphony

The Beggars
' Opera

Beiderbecke, Bix, “In a Mist,”

Bellson, Louis

Belyi, Andrei

Bennie Moten Orchestra: “Moten Swing,”, “Toby,”

Benny Carter Orchestra

Benton, Thomas Hart

Berg, Alban, cryptogram for, death of, and harmony, and
Höhepunkte
, and love; secret programs in music

—music: Altenberg Lieder, op. 4,
Kammerkonzert
,
Lulu
,
Lyric Suite
, “Monoritmica,” Piano Sonata op. 1, Seven Early Songs,
Three Fragments from Wozzeck
, Violin Concerto, Wind Quintet, op. 26;
Wozzeck

Berg, Helene Nahowski

Berger, David

Berlin, Irving, “Play a Simple Melody,”; “Putting on the Ritz,”, “That Mysterious Rag,” “What'll I Do?”, “You're Just in Love,”

Berliner, Paul

Bernstein, Leonard,
Chichester Psalms
,
Jeremiah Symphony
, “Lamentation,”
Mass
, “A Simple Song,” “Somewhere,”
West Side Story

Bigard, Barney, and His Orchestra, and history, and melody, and rhythm, and tone colors

Big Band de Lausanne

big bands,
See also names of individual big band composers

Bill Haley and the Comets

Birdland

Birth of a Nation
(film)

Birth of Race
(film)

Bishop, A. J.

Bizet:
Carmen
, “Habanera,”

Black, Brown and Beige
;
Beige
,
Black
,
Brown
, poetic script of, reading of, and religious music; and Second World War

Black and Tan
(film)

Black and Tan Fantasy
(film)

Black Nativity
(musical)

Blake, Eubie, “I'm Just Wild about Harry,”;
Shuffle Along

Blakey, Art

Blanton, Jimmy

Blanton-Webster Band

Blavatsky, Madame Helena

Blazing Saddles
(film)

Blitzstein, Mark,
Symphony: The Airborne

Blok, Aleksandr

The Blue Rider

blues: and Black, Brown and Beige
, and “Black Beauty,”; “blue note,”, “blues as process,” “blues men/women,”, blues scale, “blues sound ideal,” coloratura, defined, as dialogue, and harmony, and history, individual player's sound in, and jazz,
klangfarbenmelodie
, and melody, and “Mood Indigo,”, “as music,”; and religious music, and “Reminiscing in Tempo,”; and rhythm, rhythm and blues, and
Such Sweet Thunder
, theme and variations, and tone colors

Blues and Roots

“Blues in the Dark,”

“Blue Skies,”

Blues People
(Jones)

Bolden, Buddy

Book-of-the-Month Club

Botstein, Leon

Boulez,
Structures I

Bowles, Paul

Bradford, Perry, “Crazy Blues,”

Brahms, Johannes, Fourth Symphony, and “
schwebende Tonalität
,” Second Piano Concerto

Brando, Marlon

Braud, Wellman

Brecht, Bertolt:
Mahagonny
, “Surabaya Johnny,” “Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib?”

Briggs, Bunny

Britten, Benjamin,
War Requiem

Britton, Peter

Broadway musicals, and melody; and religious music,
See also names of individual Broadway composers; titles of Broadway shows/songs

Brooks, Mel

Brooks, Shelton, “Darktown Strutters' Ball,” “Some of These Days,”

Brown, Anthony

Brown, James

Brown, John

Brown, Lawrence

Browne, Roscoe Lee

Brubeck, Dave, “Blue Rondo à la Turk,” “The Duke,” “It's a Raggy Waltz,” “Take Five,” “Unsquare Dance,”

Burns, Ralph, “Early Autumn,”

Burns, Robert

Burris, Dick

Busoni, Ferruccio

 

Cabin in the Sky
(film)

Cage, John;
Williams Mix

cakewalks

California
Eagle

Calloway, Cab

Cambridge University

Carmichael, Hoagy, “Rockin' Chair,”

Carnegie Hall; and
Black, Brown and Beige

Carney, Harry, and
Black, Brown and Beige
, and Concerts of Sacred Music, as Ellington's driver, and
Such Sweet Thunder

“Carolina Shout,”

Carter, Benny, Benny Carter Orchestra

Carter, Elliott, Piano Concerto

Century of Negro Progress exhibition (Chicago)

C'est l'extase langoureuse
(Verlaine)

Chambers, Paul

Chaplin, Charlie, “Smile,”

Charles, Ray

Charleston

Chat Noir

Chavez, Carlos

Chernoff, John Miller

Cherry, Don

Chicago Symphony

Chicago Tribune

Child, Julia

Chocolate Kiddies

Chopin, Frédéric,
Ballades
, Funeral March, mazurkas

Christenson, Lew

Christianity

City Center (New York City)

Civic Auditorium (Portland, Ore.)

civil rights movement

Civil War, antebellum period

Clara Ward Singers

Clark, Buddy

classical composers/music, and harmony, and history, and jazz, and love, and melody, and religious music, and rhythm, “rocket” figure, and tone colors, and xylophone,.
See also
European culture/music; opera;
names of individual classical composers

clave

Clayton, Buck

Cleveland, James

Clinkscales, Marietta

Cobb, Jimmy

Cocteau, Jean

Cohen, Harvey

Cole, Bob, “Under the Bamboo Tree,”

Cole, Nat King

Coleman, Alexander

Coleman, Ornette

Collier, James Lincoln

color.
See
tone color

Coltrane, Alice

Coltrane, John,
A Love Supreme
, “My Favorite Things,” “Psalm,”

Columbia University, Kellett Fellowship

come scritto

Communist Party/communism

Concerning the Spiritual in Art
(Kandinsky)

Concerts of Sacred Music;
First Sacred Concert
,
Second Sacred Concert
,
Third Sacred Concert

Confrey, Zez, “Stumbling,”

“Congo” (Lindsay)

Congress for Racial Equality

Connor, Eugene “Bull,”

continuo

Conversation
(Stravinsky)

Cook, Will Marion, Southern Syncopated Orchestra

Cooke, Sam

Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

Copland, Aaron, archives of, and history, and Pulitzer Prize

—music:
Appalachian Spring
;
Billy the Kid
, “Day of Wrath,” “Fear in the Night,” “Hoe-Down,”
Lincoln Portrait
, “Lord's Day,” “Moment of Crisis,”
Music for the Theatre
, Piano Concerto, Piano Variations,
Rodeo
,
El Salón México
, Short Symphony, “Simple Gifts,”,
Statements
,
Variations on a Shaker Theme

copyright law

Corelli

Cotton Club, in
Black and Tan
(film), and history, and love, “plantation” atmosphere of, and religious music, segregation of

Coventry Cathedral

Cowell, Henry

Cox, Baby

Craft, Robert

Crane, Hart

Crawford, Ruth; “heterophony of dynamics,” String Quartet

Creamer, Henry, “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans,”

Cripps, Thomas

The Crisis

Crosby, Bing

Crosby, Bob, “Tiger Rag,”

cubist rhythms

Cunningham, Merce

 

Daily Worker

Dameron, Tadd

Damrosch, Walter

A Damsel in Distress
(film)

Dance, Stanley

Darrell, R. D.

Davis, Almena

Davis, Kay

Davis, Miles; “All Blues,”
On the Corner
, “Freddie Freeloader,”;
Kind of Blue
,
Miles Ahead
;
Porgy and Bess
,
Sketches of Spain
, “So What,” “Surrey with the Fringe on Top,”

Davis, Richard

Dean, James

Debussy, Claude, and harmony, and
klangfarbenmelodie
, and love, and melody, and rhythm, snowscapes of; and “symphonic sketches,” and tone colors

—music:
Ariettes oubliées
,
Children's Corner
; “De Soir…,”;
En Blanc et Noir
; “En Sourdine,” “Et la lune Descend sur le temple qui fut,”; “Etude in Chromatic Steps,”
Fêtes galantes
, “Golliwog,”;
Ibéria
,
Images
, “Je suis affreuse ansi,” “Jeux de vagues,”,
La Mer
;
Pelléas et Mélisande
; “Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d'été”,
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
,
Préludes
, “La Puerta del Vino,” “Rêverie,”
Six épigraphes antiques
, “
Le Tombeau des naiads
,”
Trois chansons de Bilitis

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