UNIT 2 Listening Exam

After the Ball

1891 Tin-Pan Alley song Charles K. Harris Song: This song is one of the biggest Tin-Pan Alley hits Composer: Founded is own publishing company and repurchased the rights to what would become his greatest selling song

The Stars and Stripes Forever!

1896 March John Philip Sousa Song: In 1987 became the "national march" of the United States Composer: "March King"

"Memories" a. Very Pleasant; b. Rather Sad

1897 Classical Charles Ives Song: He self-published his work, including this song which was part of 114 Songs. Composer: Made his living as the owner of an Insurance Company

Maple Leaf Rag

1899 Ragtime Scott Joplin Song: In honor of the Maple Leaf Club, a black social club Composer: First African American to win Pulitzer Prize

St. Louis Blues

1914 Tin-Pan Alley Song (blues style) W.C. Handy Song: The lyrics tell of a sophisticated woman from St. Louis, Missouri who has stolen the affection of the singer's lover. Composer: "Father of the Blues"

Alcotts

1916-17 Classical Charles Ives Song: The Concord Sonata based on a different American Transcendentalist author: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter), the Alcotts (both Bronson and Louisa May, author of Little Women), and Henry David Thoreau (On Walden Pond). Composer: Won Pulitzer Prize

In Flanders Field

1917 Art Song Charles Ives Song: "Flanders Field" is the English name of the WWI battlefield bordered by West and East Flanders in Belgium and France. Composer: Opposed entry into WWI at first

The Governor's Own

1921 March Alton Augustus Adams Song: Recalls the step of the United States Virgin Islands' first U.S. naval administrator—Governor Joseph Wallace Oman Composer: The first black bandmaster in the United States Navy

Dipper Mouth Blues

1923 Blues / New Orleans Jazz Joe "King" Oliver Song: Captures New Orleans heterophonic polyphony Composer: Oliver left New Orleans to escape virulent racial discrimination.

East St. Louis Toodle-Oo

1926 Jazz / Jungle Music Duke Ellington Song: The growling timbres of the brass are characteristic of "jungle music Composer: From a middle class black family

West End Blues

1928 New Orleans Jazz Joe "King" Oliver, perf. Louis Armstrong Song: It is a 12-bar blues, but elements like Armstrong's opening cornet fanfare announce that something remarkable is happening. Composer: Armstrong himself became known by nicknames including "Pops" and "Satchmo"

Cheek To Cheek (V.1)

1934 Tin-Pan Alley song Irving Berlin Perf. by Billie Holiday Song: It is "performer's music" Composer: Born in Russia

Cheek To Cheek (V. 2)

1934 Tin-Pan Alley song Irving Berlin Perf. Frank Sinatra Song: Part of what is known as "The Great American Songbook" Composer: The son of a Jewish cantor

Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue

1937 Swing Duke Ellington Song: An early exemplar of Ellington's aspirations to write in longer forms. Composer: From Washington D.C.

Graceful Ghost Rag

1938, pub. 1971 Ragtime William Bolcom Song: An homage to Bolcom's father Composer: Played a vital role in the ragtime revival of the early 1970s

Swing! Brother, Swing!

1939 Swing Composed by Clarence Williams, James F. Hanley, Lewis Raymond & Walter Bishop, Sr., Perf. by Billie Holiday Song: Example of 32-bar song form Composer: Billy Holiday was from Philadelphia

Strange Fruit

1939 Single Version Tin-Pan Alley / Protest Song Abel Meeropol & Holiday Song: Depicts the tragedy of lynching Composer: Abel Meeropol was a Jewish school teacher in New York who wrote the lyric and drafted the song after being haunted by a photograph of the 1930 lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana

Conga Brava

1940 Jazz Duke Ellington and Juan Tizol Song: Showcases the Latin influence that Puerto Rican trombonist Juan Tizol brought to Ellington's band Composer: Tizol was born in Puerto Rico and switched to the valve trombone after starting on the violin.

Symphony No. 2, mvt. 5—Allegro molto vivace

c. 1898-c.1901, rev. 1907/8 Classical Charles Ives Song: A pastiche or collage of tunes both European and American, classical, military, popular and folk Composer: Tinkered with his work for many years and thus most of his compositions have a range of dates

Gong on the Hook and Ladder, or Firemen's Parade on Main Street

c. 1912, arr. orch 1934 Classical Charles Ives Song:Creates a scene from American small town life in which the local volunteer fire department parades through the town square. Composer: Started working as a church organist at age 14 and played in his father's community band.

Original Jelly Roll Blues

publ. 1915, rec. 1926 Jazz Jelly Roll Morton Song: Arguably the first published jazz composition Composer: Claimed to have invented jazz

Daniel

traditional Shout Perf. by Willis Proctor and Group Song: The subject of this song is the Biblical Daniel whose faith saved him in the Lion's den and who was thus a favorite of missionary preachers. Composer: Recorded in 1960 by the ethnologist Alan Lomax in the Georgia Sea Islands—a fertile plantation area, so hot and harsh that very few whites lived among their slaves