Author: Allen Forte
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691043999
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In this pathbreaking book, Allen Forte uses modern analytical procedures to explore the large repertoire of beautiful love songs written during the heyday of American musical theater, the Big Bands, and Tin Pan Alley. Covering the work of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Harold Arlen, he seeks to illuminate this extraordinary music indigenous to America by revealing its deeper organizational characteristics. In so doing, he aims to establish it as a unique corpus of music that deserves more intensive study and appreciation by scholars and connoisseurs in the broader fields of American popular music and jazz. Expressing much of the traditional tonality associated with European music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the love songs of the Golden Age are shown to draw on a rich variety of elements--popular harmony, idiomatic lyric-writing, and Afro-American dance rhythms. His analyses of such songs as "Embraceable You" or "Yesterdays" in particular exemplify his ability to convey the sublime, unpretentious simplicity of this great music.
The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950
Author: Allen Forte
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691043999
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In this pathbreaking book, Allen Forte uses modern analytical procedures to explore the large repertoire of beautiful love songs written during the heyday of American musical theater, the Big Bands, and Tin Pan Alley. Covering the work of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Harold Arlen, he seeks to illuminate this extraordinary music indigenous to America by revealing its deeper organizational characteristics. In so doing, he aims to establish it as a unique corpus of music that deserves more intensive study and appreciation by scholars and connoisseurs in the broader fields of American popular music and jazz. Expressing much of the traditional tonality associated with European music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the love songs of the Golden Age are shown to draw on a rich variety of elements--popular harmony, idiomatic lyric-writing, and Afro-American dance rhythms. His analyses of such songs as "Embraceable You" or "Yesterdays" in particular exemplify his ability to convey the sublime, unpretentious simplicity of this great music.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691043999
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In this pathbreaking book, Allen Forte uses modern analytical procedures to explore the large repertoire of beautiful love songs written during the heyday of American musical theater, the Big Bands, and Tin Pan Alley. Covering the work of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Harold Arlen, he seeks to illuminate this extraordinary music indigenous to America by revealing its deeper organizational characteristics. In so doing, he aims to establish it as a unique corpus of music that deserves more intensive study and appreciation by scholars and connoisseurs in the broader fields of American popular music and jazz. Expressing much of the traditional tonality associated with European music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the love songs of the Golden Age are shown to draw on a rich variety of elements--popular harmony, idiomatic lyric-writing, and Afro-American dance rhythms. His analyses of such songs as "Embraceable You" or "Yesterdays" in particular exemplify his ability to convey the sublime, unpretentious simplicity of this great music.
The Liberty Years, 1924-1950
Author: Allen Churchill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Encompassing 130 pieces from Liberty Magazine, this comprehensive anthology reveals America in panorama, from the Roaring Twenties, through the Depression, World War Two, and the Truman era.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Encompassing 130 pieces from Liberty Magazine, this comprehensive anthology reveals America in panorama, from the Roaring Twenties, through the Depression, World War Two, and the Truman era.
Moody's Municipal & Government Manual
Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
Biennial Report
Author: West Virginia. Office of the Tax Commissioner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
A Chronicle of Walnut Station - Walnut Grove
Author: Daniel D. Peterson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1257948326
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
A history of the area that would become Walnut Station, then Walnut Grove from the earliest days to the present. It covers almost every aspect of community life in this small town in Minnesota.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1257948326
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
A history of the area that would become Walnut Station, then Walnut Grove from the earliest days to the present. It covers almost every aspect of community life in this small town in Minnesota.
Statistics of Utilities
Author: New Jersey. Board of Public Utility Commissioners
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Extreme Right Parties in Scandinavia
Author: Anders Widfeldt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113450215X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This book fills a gap in the extreme right literature currently available as there is no book length study of Scandinavia With the election of many right wing parties across Europe this book is very timely
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113450215X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This book fills a gap in the extreme right literature currently available as there is no book length study of Scandinavia With the election of many right wing parties across Europe this book is very timely
Statistics of Utilities
Author: New Jersey. Board of Public Utilities
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Regional Survey of New York and Its Environs
Author: Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description