The Ellington Century (68 page)

ornaments/ornamentation

Ornette Coleman Quartet

Orwell, George

Ory, Kid

Othello
(Shakespeare)

Other/otherness

Ottley, Roi

Our American Composers
(Howard)

outro

 

Papp, Joseph

Parish, Mitchell

Parker, Charlie, and melody, and rhythm

—music: “Anthropology,” “Blues for Alice,” “Embraceable You,” “Koko,”, “Moose the Mooche,”

Parmenter, Ross

Paul Sacher Stiftung (Basel, Switz.)

Peabody Award

“Perennial Fashion—Jazz” (Adorno)

Peress, Maurice

Pergolesi, Giovanni

Perle, George

Person to Person
(television program)

Philadelphia Orchestra

piano, and archives, and
Black, Brown and Beige
, boogiewoogie, “cocktail piano,” and harmony, and melody; piano concertos, piano rolls, player piano, and religious music, and rhythm, stride piano, and
Such Sweet Thunder
, and tone colors

Picasso, Pablo

Picture of Dorian Gray
(Wilde)

“The Picture That's Turned to the Wall,”

“Pied Beauty” (Hopkins)

Pins and Needles

Piron, A. J., “I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate,”

Place Congo (New Orleans)

Pleasants, Henry

The Plow That Broke the Plain
(film)

Pocahontas

Poetics of Music
(Stravinsky)

Pollack, Howard

Pollock, Jackson

Popular Front

popular music/musicians, and
Appalachian Spring
, and
Black, Brown and Beige
, and harmony, and history, and melody, and religious music, and rhythm; and sex/race, and
Such Sweet Thunder

populism

Porgy and Bess

Porter, Cole, “All of You,”
Kiss Me, Kate
,
Silk Stockings
, “What Is This Thing Called Love?”

Portrait of Claude Debussy
(Dietschy)

postmodernism

Poulenc, Francis, “C,”

Pound, Ezra

Poussin, Nicolas

Powell, Bud

Prévert, Jacques, “Autumn Leaves,”

primitive/primitivism, and harmony, and history

Prince, Harold

Procope, Russell

program music

Prohibition

Prokofiev, Sergei,
Visions fugitives

Proses lyriques
(Debussy)

Puccini, Giacomo,
La Bohème
,
Madama Butterfly
, “Nessun dorma,”,
Tosca
,
Turandot

Puck

Pulitzer Prize

 

race relations, and
Birth of a Nation
(film), and blackface, and black identity, “black is beautiful,” and black power,
Brown v. Board of Education
, and civil rights movement, “coonsongs,” cross-race relationships, “freedom ride,” and Harlem Renaissance, and history, and Jim Crow, and love/sexuality, and March on Washington, and melody, and minstrel style, and miscegenation, and New Negro, and “race” market, and racism, and segregation, and stereotypes, and
Such Sweet Thunder
, and tone colors, and Uncle Tom,
See also
African American culture/music; slavery/slave trade

Rachmaninoff, Second Piano Concerto, “Vocalise,”

Rackham, Arthur

radio, Armed Forces Radio Service, and Berg, and Ellington, and Schoenberg

Radiohead

ragtime, and
Black, Brown and Beige
, and history, and rhythm; and
Such Sweet Thunder
, “Tiger Rag,”; and tone colors

Rainer, Maria Rilke

Rainey, Ma

Ramin, Sid

Randolph, A. Philip

Ravel, Maurice: and harmony, and
klangfarbenmelodie
, and melody, and rhythm, and tone colors

—music:
Alborada del gracioso
,
Bolero
,
Daphnis et Chloé
,
L'Heure espagnole
(Ravel),
Mother Goose Suite
, “Pavane pour une infante défunte,” “Sainte,”
Shéhérazade
,
Sonatine
,
La Valse
,
Valses nobles et sentimentales

Ravinia Festival (Chicago)

recordings, Atlantic, and
Black, Brown and Beige
; Columbia Records, and Concerts of Sacred Music; and harmony, and history; in Fargo (N.D.); in Jennings (La.), and melody, and religious music, and rhythm, and
Such Sweet Thunder
, and tone colors; Velvetone, Verve records, Victor

Redman, Don

Reed, Barbara

Reich, Steve;
Clapping Music
;
Music for 18 Musicians

Reich, Willi

Reiner, Fritz

“The Relationship to the Text” (Schoenberg)

religious music, and
Black, Brown and Beige
; and Concerts of Sacred Music, gospel music, and
My People
, sacred and profane styles, and shout chorus,
See also
spirituals

Republican Party

Reveille with Beverly
(film)

Revolutionary War

rhythm, African

rhythms, Afro-Cuban rhythms; in Bartók's String Quartet no. 5, Bulgarian rhythms; Caribbean rhythms, in “Carolina Shout,”, and classical composers, and clave, and continuo, in “Cotton Tail,”; cubist rhythms; habanera rhythm, harmonic rhythm, in “Hat and Beard,”; hemiola rhythm, in “I Got Rhythm,”, in Stravinsky's Concerto in E
(“Dumbarton Oaks”), “killer dillers,”, Latin rhythms, melodic rhythm, and notation, pulse rhythm, and ragtime; rhythm and blues, rhythm changes, rhythmic research, riff/shout rhythm; ring shout; in “Run Old Jeremiah,”; Russian rhythms, and serialism, soloistic (supermelodic) rhythm, Spanish rhythm, and swing, in “Tiger Rag,”

Riddle, Nelson,
In the Wee Small Hours
,
Only the Lonely

Riley, Terry,
Keyboard Studies

Rimbaud, Arthur

Rimsky-Korsakov,
Snegurochka

ring shout, and “Knee Bone,” and “Run Old Jeremiah,”

Roach, Max

Robbins, Jerome

Roberts, Luckey

Roberts, Paul

Robertson, Marta

Robeson, Paul

Robettin, Dorothea

Robinson, Bill “Bojangles,”

Robinson, Earl,
Ballad for Americans

Roché, Betty

rock/rock bands,
See also titles of rock music and names of rock bands

Rodgers, Richard, and harmony, and melody

—music: “Do-re-mi,” “The Girl Friend,”; “Have You Met Miss Jones?” “I Didn't Know What Time It Was,”
Jumbo
,
The King and I
, “My Funny Valentine,” “My Heart Stood Still,” “My Romance,”
Oklahoma!
, “The Sound of Music,” “Spring Is Here,” “There's a Small Hotel,” “This Can't Be Love,”

Rodrigo,
Concierto de Aranjuez

Rodzinski, Arthur

Rogers, Ginger

Rogers, Shorty

Rollins, Sonny, “Oleo,”

Romeo and Juliet
(Shakespeare)

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roots
(television series)

Roppolo, Leon

Rosenfield, Monroe

rubato

Rudhyar, Dane

Runnin' Wild

“Run Old Jeremiah,”

Rushing, Jimmy

Russian War Relief

 

“The Saddest Tale,”

Saint John the Divine, Cathedral of (New York City)

Saint-Saëns,
Danse macabre
, “
Mon Coeur s'ouvre à ta voix
,”
Samson et Dalila

Salute to Labor
(television program)

Sanders, John

sarabande

Sargent, Winthrop

Satie, Erik,
Gnossiennes
,
Gymnopédie
,
Parade

“Satin Doll,”

scat singing

Schenker, Heinrich

Scheuchl, Marie

Schloezer, Boris de

Schoenberg, Arnold, and Berg; “developing variation,”, “emancipation of the dissonance,” and Gerstl,
Grundgestalt
, and harmony, and history, and instinctual basis of life, and Kandinsky, and
klangfarbenmelodie
, and melody, as painter, and rhythm, and spiritualism, and
sprechstimme
performance style, and tone colors, and twelve-tone method

—music:
The Book of the Hanging Gardens
, op. 15, Chamber Symphony, “Colors,” “Enhauptung,”
Erwartung
, op. 17,
Erwartung
, op. 2, no.1, “Farben” (Colors), First String Quartet, Five Pieces for Orchestra, op. 16, Five Pieces for Piano, op. 23, Five Pieces for Piano, op. 23 no. 2, Four Orchestral Songs, op. 22,
Genesis Prelude
,
Die glückliche Hand
,
Herzgewächse
,
Jacob's Ladder
,
Kammerkonzert
,
Kammersinfonie
, op. 9,
Moses und Aron
,
Ode to Napoleon
,
Pelleas und Melisande
, Piano Concerto, Piano Suite op. 25,
Pierrot Lunaire
; “Premonitions,” Second String Quartet, “Seraphita,” op. 22, Serenade op. 24, “Summer Morning by a Lake,”
Survivor from Warsaw
, Theme and Variations for band, Third String Quartet, Three Pieces for Piano, op. 11, Variations for Orchestra, op. 30, Waltz, op. 23, no. 5

Schoenberg, Mathilde

Schopenhauer, Artur

Schorske, Carl

Schuller, Gunther, ix

Schuman, William

Schumann, Robert, “Die beiden Grenadiere,”

Scott, George C.

Scriabin, Alexander,
Mysterium

Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra

Second World War, and
Appalachian Spring
, and
Black, Brown and Beige
, Hitler-Stalin pact, Pearl Harbor, and
Rodeo
, Stockholm Peace Petition

Seeger, Ruth Crawford,
See also
Crawford, Ruth

Seldes, Gilbert

Seraphita
(Balzac)

serialism

Sesame Street
(television program)

Seurat, Georges

The Seven Lively Arts
(Seldes)

Sex and Character
(Weininger)

sexuality, and antimiscegenation laws, black, homosexuality, and jazz, and race relations, “sexual anarchy,” sexual climax, sexual liberation, sexual repression, in
Such Sweet Thunder
,.
See also
gender; love

Shakers

Shakespeare, William

Shakespearean Festival (Stratford, Ontario)

Shakespeare in the Park (New York)

Shakespeare Our Contemporary
(Kott)

sheet music, and melody

Sherrill, Joya

Shirley, Wayne

Shostakovich, Dmitri,
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk
, Preludes and Fugues, op. 87, Symphony no. 7 (“Leningrad”),
Testimony

shouts, and
Black, Brown and Beige
, and rhythm,
ring shout,
tutti
shout

Showalter, Elaine

Sibelius, Jean, Fifth Symphony, “Swan Theme,”

“The Sidewalks of New York,”

Silver, Horace, “Sister Sadie,”

Sinatra, Frank,
In the Wee Small Hours

Singher, Martial

Sissle, Noble, “I'm Just Wild about Harry,”;
Shuffle Along

Sketches of Spain

“Skunk Hour” (Lowell)

slavery/slave trade, and history, and rhythm

Slonimsky, Nicolas

Smalley, Roger

Smith, Bessie

Smith, Chris, “Ballin' the Jack,”

Smith, Mamie

Smith, Willie “The Lion,”

Smithsonian Museum of American History;
Collection of Classic Jazz
, Ellington Collection;
Jazz Singers
collection

“Snow at Louveciennes” (Sisley painting)

“Snow Man” (Stevens)

snowscapes

“Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,”

Sondheim, Stephen,
Into the Woods

Sontag, Susan, “erotics of listening,”

“Sophisticated Lady,”

sound technologies, and acoustic environments, and tone colors,.
See also
recordings

Sousa, John Philip, “Liberty Bell,” Monty Python theme, “Stars and Stripes Forever,”

Souster, Tim

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Southern Syncopated Orchestra

Spanish American War

Spector, Phil

spiritualism

spirituals, and
Black, Brown and Beige

square dances

Stahl, Irwin

The Star of Ethiopia
(musical)

“The Star-Spangled Banner,”

Steed, Janna Tull

Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)

Stevedore
(drama)

Stevens, Wallace

Stewart, Rex

Still, William Grant, Symphony no. 1

“St. Louis Blues,”

St Louis Woman
(film)

Stockhausen, Karlheinz,
Gruppen

Stokowski, Leopold

“Stompin' at the Savoy,”

Stomping the Blues
(Murray)

“Stormy Weather,”

Stormy Weather
(film)

St. Peter's Lutheran Church (New York City)