A Brief History of Music
A Brief History of Music
A Brief History of Music
Dissertation (Thesis) for a Doctor of Arts (AD) (Music and Philosophy) from Belford
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Contents:
The above contents are in accordance with the requirements as laid down by the
University, as to what is to be contained within this dissertation, in addition to Chapters 1
and 9, in order to make the dissertation as comprehensive as possible.
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Music is an ever evolving subject and activity that has different genres and types, not to
mention the various applications of music to various situations, such as in enjoyment &
entertainment (recreation), military applications, therapy (Herve comes to mind), and
productivity in the work place.
The purpose of this dissertation is to give the reader a perspective of music found and not
found in the literature and other sources.
I dedicate this dissertation to the faculty and personnel of Belford University for
believing in my abilities and affording me the challenge of putting my knowledge,
research and thoughts down onto paper.
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Music is the science and art of creating noise to form a pattern that can both be listened to
and identified accordingly. Music can also be defined as the science of harmonically
sounds; instrumental or vocal harmony (2)
The discovery of music is approximately 50 000 years old (1), and early modern humans
have believe it or not, migrated originally from Africa to all habitable continents
throughout the world. It goes without saying that go anywhere in the world, music in
some form or other is played, sung and performed. Meaning that even tribal people have
their own system of music, and it goes with out saying that scientists and anthropologists
have determined that music must have been present in the ancestral population, prior to
the dispersal of the Homo sapiens (humans) throughout the world.
It is interesting to note that even musical instruments especially the stringed instruments
have been invented and constructed in different parts of the world with similar concepts
and principles in design albeit it that the different parts of the world are unrelated to each
other. (However Western influence no doubt changes all of that)!
If Greek Legend is to be believed, it would have been a twang of a bowstring that made
the god Apollo aware of the musical properties of a vibrating string.
It is a man by the name of Jubal in the Holy Scriptures who invented the use of musical
instruments.
The ancient Egyptians and King David played with the harp. The lyre was also played by
King David and his people.
Which just goes to demonstrate that right throughout the world the people of every
country have designed their own kind of indigenous instruments, being percussion, wood
winds and string instruments.
With the crossing of the oceans of the world, the colonizing of other lands by
predominantly Western Kingdoms, there has been a transplanting of music into colonies;
slaves developing their own kind of music in new lands, indigenous peoples developed
their own kinds of music and the development of the different genres of music as well.
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The above illustrations are but an example of stringed instruments that have been
constructed right throughout the world. It is interesting how mankind has developed
instruments unrelated from country to country. Contrasting old instruments with new
instruments.
Music was started with the cavemen who developed hunting instruments, and what any
animal with horns was hunted down, the horns hollowed out by the primitive men, and
made into musical instruments. The Shofar or rams horn, developed by the Jews for
religious service, which is still in use today during the Rosh Hashanah festival in
synagogues right throughout the world.
The ancient Chinese had their system of music many thousands of years ago, if the above
illustrations stringed and related instruments are anything to go by.
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However according to Britten, B and Holst, “The Wonderful World of Music”, 1958,
Macdonald: London, it has not been established how long ago music was first used or
invented. Also in Russell, J, “A History of Music”, 1957, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd,
no mention is made as to the origins of music.
In Wise, P and Van der Spuy, M, “Musical History and General Knowledge of Music,
(year of publication unknown), Nassou Beperk, and music were developed by two
ancient civilizations, being the Greeks and the Jews, and crediting Jubal, Miriam,
Deborah and King David (with his harp) and Elijah (with his minstrel). The ancient
Egyptians also long before King David, Jubal, etc. had developed and used harps as being
the instruments of choice.
According to Pratt, W S, “The History of Music”, 1907, New York, G. Schirmer, the
ancient Egyptians are mentioned with the use of musical instrumentation.
However according to Fry, P S, “The Wonderful Story of the Jews”, © 1970, Purnell,
London, credits David as the first person to use musical instrumentation such as the harp,
whilst another source credits Jubal with the first use of musical instrumentation. Harps
and lyres would be the instruments of choice.
The overriding perspective from a Western Judeo – Christian perspective, David must be
regarded as the first person to have made use of musical instrumentation, although others
such as the ancient Chinese and Japanese had developed musical instruments long before
David or his associates such as Jubal did.
The Romans also had their system of music, for example according to Richard Fawkes in
his History of Classical Music, Naxos, makes mention that the Romans used the organ
and played this instrument whilst they were feeding Christians to the lions in the stadiums
of Rome.
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Now to proceed to the start of classical music, for which one must now take a good look
at the Middle Ages right through to the Renaissance in music, and bear in mind that Pope
Gregory in about 660 AD had musicians put down his religious music to paper, round
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The first person to compose classical music was a nun by the name of Hildegard of
Bingen (1098 – 1179), who founded her own convent, wrote scientific and religious
papers and composed plainsong settings to her own poetry, and her major works were
Ordo Virtutum and Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum. A feat for a woman in
a time when women were not permitted in Church, or were not to be seen or heard. If one
listens to her music, it sounds more tuneful then the Gregorian Chants.
Below are lists obtained from the Internet from a website called www.classiccat.net and it
is interesting to note that that website lists Wipo of Burgundy as the first composer.
- 1500top
995
Burgundy, Wipo of
(1,2)
1098
Bingen, Hildegard von
(3,3)
1170
Vogelweide, Walther von der
(1,1)
1250
Codax, Martin
(2,2)
1300
Machaut, Guillaume de
(1,1)
1320
Firenze, Lorenzo da
(1,1)
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1400
Dufay, Guillaume
(1,1)
1410
Ockeghem, Johannes
(1,1)
1450
Isaac, Heinrich (2,2)
Pres, Josquin des
(4,5)
1459
Mouton, Jean
(1,1)
1465
Cornysh, William
(1,1)
1468
Encina, Juan del
(4,5)
1470
Tromboncino, Bartolomeo
(2,2)
1474
Capirola, Vincenzo
(2,2)
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1480
Dalza, Joan Ambrosio
(1,1)
1483
Mantua, Jacquet de
(1,1)
1485
Willaert, Adrian (2,2)
Janequin, Clément (4,4)
Spinacino, Francesco
(1,1)
1486
Senfl, Ludwig
(2,2)
1490
Sermisy, Claudin de
(3,4)
1491
Tudor, King Henry VIII
(1,1)
1494
Attaingnant, Pierre
(2,2)
1495
Narváez, Luys de
(2,2)
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There have been numerous people and bodies that have composed
music and also performed music both secular and religious, such as
the trouveres of Northern France and the troubadours of Southern
France, the Minnesingers of Germany and the minstrels.
We are still at the medieval period, and now will migrate to the
Baroque Era, with the following names listed infra.
1500 - 1600top
1500
Morales, Cristóbal de (2,3)
Susato, Tielman (1,1)
Passereau, Pierre (1,4)
Milan, Luis de (6,7)
Valderrabano, Enriquez de
(1,1)
1504
Arcadelt, Jacob
(3,5)
1505
Tallis, Thomas
(7,10)
1507
Bakfark, Bálint
(1,1)
1508
Mudarra, Alonso
(3,3)
1510
Clemens non Papa, Jacobus
(1,2)
Nola, Giovanni Domenico da
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1515
Escobedo, Bartolomé de
(1,1)
Gabrieli, Andrea (1,1)
1517
Scandello, Antonio
(1,1)
1520
Animuccia, Giovanni
(1,1)
Szamotulski, Waclaw
(1,1)
Arbeau, Thoinot (1,1)
1525
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
(23,35)
Ortiz, Diego (3,4)
Galilei, Vincenzo (1,1)
Fuenllana, Miguel de (4,8)
1528
Jeune, Claude le (1,1)
Guerrero, Francisco
(3,3)
1530
Farrant, Richard (1,1)
Donato, Baldassare
(1,1)
Azzaiolo, Filippo (3,3)
1531
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1532
Lasso, Orlando di
(9,11)
1535
Gomólka, Mikolaj
(1,1)
1540
Utendal, Alexander
(1,1)
Johnson, John (4,4)
1543
Byrd, William
(8,15)
1545
Caccini, Giulio
(4,8)
1548
Victoria, Tomás Luis de
(25,79)
1550
Holborne,, Anthony (2,2)
Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo
(4,4)
Gallus, Jacobus (3,3)
Vecchi, Orazio (1,1)
1553
Eccard, Johannes
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1554
Bevin, Elway
(1,1)
1555
Lobo, Alonso
(1,1)
1556
Gabrieli, Giovanni
(5,5)
Nenna, Pomponio
(1,1)
1557
Morley, Thomas
(7,11)
1558
Richardson, Ferdinando
(2,2)
1560
Viadana, Lodovico
(3,5)
1561
Gesualdo, Carlo
(2,3)
Philips, Peter (1,1)
1562
Bull, John (1,1)
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon
(2,2)
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1564
Hassler, Hans Leo
(3,4)
1565
Pilkington, Francis
(2,2)
Aichinger, Gregor
(1,1)
1566
Piccinini, Alessandro
(1,2)
1567
Campion, Thomas (2,2)
Monteverdi, Claudio
(13,20)
1568
Banchieri, Adriano
(4,4)
1570
Molinaro, Simone
(1,1)
1571
Fontana, Giovanni Battista
(1,1)
Praetorius, Michael (5,6)
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1575
Kapsberger, Johannes Hieronymus
(4,6)
1576
Weelkes, Thomas
(3,3)
1580
Johnson, Robert
(1,1)
1582
Ravenscroft, Thomas
(1,1)
Allegri, Gregorio (1,1)
Jeep, Johannes (1,2)
1583
Gibbons, Orlando (4,4)
Frescobaldi, Girolamo
(14,15)
1584
Friderici, Daniel
(1,1)
1585
Schütz, Heinrich
(26,34)
1586
Falconieri, Andrea (1,1)
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1587
Scheidt, Samuel
(2,2)
1588
Robinson, Thomas
(3,3)
1590
Eyck, Jacob van
(1,1)
1595
Scheidemann, Heinrich
(2,2)
Merula, Tarquinio (1,1)
1597
Marini, Biagio
(3,3)
1598
Bertoli, Giovanni Antonio
(1,1)
1600 - 1700top
1603
Uccellini, Marco
(1,1)
1604
Albert, Heinrich
(1,1)
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1611
Hammerschmidt, Andreas
(1,2)
Bruna, Pablo (1,2)
1615
Corbetta, Francesco
(1,1)
1616
Froberger, Johann Jakob
(1,1)
1620
Noordt, Anthoni van
(1,1)
1625
Gallot, Jacques
(1,1)
1626
Couperin, Louis (4,4)
Legrenzi, Giovanni
(2,2)
1627
Kerll, Johann Kaspar
(1,1)
1632
Lully, Jean-Baptiste
(3,3)
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1639
Melani, Alessandro
(1,1)
1640
Sanz, Gaspar
(15,20)
1644
Biber, Heinrich I.F. von
(1,1)
Cabanilles, Joan Baptista
(1,1)
Stradella, Alessandro (1,1)
1645
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine
(7,7)
1650
Visée, Robert de
(5,5)
Raison, André (1,1)
1653
Corelli, Arcangelo (3,4)
Muffat, Georg (2,2)
Pachelbel, Johann
(11,21)
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1656
Marais, Marin
(2,2)
1659
Jacquet de La Guerre, Elisabeth
(1,1)
Purcell, Henry (21,31)
1660
Fischer, Johann Caspar Ferdinand
(1,1)
Kuhnau, Johann (1,1)
Scarlatti, Alessandro (2,3)
1667
Lotti, Antonio
(4,5)
1668
Couperin, François
(5,5)
1670
Caldara, Antonio (2,4)
Kellner, David (4,5)
O'Carolan, Turlough
(1,1)
1671
Albinoni, Tomaso
(2,2)
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1674
Zamboni, Giovanni
(1,1)
1675
Bencini, Pietro Paolo
(1,1)
1677
Bach, Johnann Ludwig (1,1)
Clari, Giovanni Carlo Maria
(1,1)
1678
Vivaldi, Antonio
(23,30)
1679
Kaufmann, Georg Friedrich
(1,1)
Zelenka, Jan Dismas (1,1)
1681
Telemann, Georg Philipp
(17,18)
1682
Rathgeber, Valentin
(1,1)
1683
Heinichen, Johann David
(1,1)
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1684
Cernohorský, Bohuslav Matej
(1,1)
Walther, Johann Gottfried
(1,1)
1685
Handel, George Frideric
(37,67)
Bach, Johann Sebastian
(242,521)
Scarlatti, Domenico (71,107)
1686
Marcello, Benedetto
(3,3)
Porpora, Nicola (1,1)
Weiss, Silvius Leopold
(3,4)
1688
Fasch, Johann Friedrich
(2,2)
1690
Brescianello, Guiseppe Antonio
(1,1)
Stölzel, Gottfried Heinrich (1,1)
1692
Tartini, Giuseppe
(1,1)
1693
Sammartini, Giuseppe
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1694
Daquin, Louis-Claude
(1,1)
1695
Locatelli, Pietro
(1,1)
1696
Liguori, Alphonsus
(2,2)
1697
Leclair, Jean-Marie
(1,1)
1698
Broschi, Riccardo
(1,1)
Now we must proceed to migrate from the Baroque Era into the
Classical period, as follows:
1700 - 1800top
1700
Blavet, Michel
(1,1)
1706
Martini, Giovanni Battista
(2,2)
1708
Kopriva, Václav Jan
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1709
Corrette, Michel
(2,2)
1710
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista
(5,12)
Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann
(1,1)
1711
Boyce, William
(1,1)
1712
Stanley, John
(3,3)
1713
Krebs, Johann Ludwig
(3,3)
1714
Homilius, Gottfried August
(1,1)
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
(4,5)
Gluck, Christoph Willibald von
(4,8)
1715
Wagenseil, Georg Christoph
(1,1)
1717
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1719
Mozart, Leopold
(1,1)
1729
Soler, Antonio
(1,1)
1731
Dusek, Frantisek Xaver
(1,1)
1732
Haydn, Franz Joseph
(44,64)
1733
Giordani, Tommaso
(1,5)
1735
Bach, Johan Christian
(2,2)
1736
Albrechtsberger, Johann Georg
(3,3)
1737
Haydn, Johann Michael
(4,4)
1739
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1740
Paisiello, Giovanni
(1,1)
1743
Boccherini, Luigi
(5,5)
1746
Billings, William
(4,5)
1747
Kozeluh, Leopold
(2,2)
1749
Cimarosa, Domenico
(8,8)
1751
Bortnyansky, Dmitry
(1,2)
1752
Clementi, Muzio
(9,11)
1754
Hoffmeister, Franz Anton
(1,1)
1756
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
(129,263|2)
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1759
Paradis, Maria Theresia von
(1,1)
1760
Dussek, Jan Ladislav
(3,3)
Cherubini, Luigi (1,1)
1761
Gaveaux, Pierre
(1,1)
1763
Danzi, Franz
(2,2)
1765
Eybler, Joseph Leopold
(1,1)
1767
Gragnani, Filippo
(1,1)
1768
Jadin, Louis-Emmanuel
(1,1)
1770
Carulli, Ferdinando (5,5)
Rinck, Johann Christian Heinrich
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1774
Spontini, Gaspare
(1,1)
1778
Sor, Fernando (23,31)
Neukomm, Sigismund von
(1,1)
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk
(2,2)
1781
Giuliani, Mauro
(7,9)
Diabelli, Anton
(1,1)
1782
Field, John (5,7)
Paganini, Niccolò
(4,9|1)
1784
Spohr, Louis (2,4|1)
Aguado, Dionisio
(1,1)
1786
Kuhlau, Friedrich (2,2)
Weber, Carl Maria von
(7,8)
1787
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1788
Sechter, Simon
(2,2)
1789
Bochsa, Nicholas Charles
(1,1)
1790
Legnani, Luigi
(1,1)
1791
Hérold, Ferdinand (1,1)
Czerny, Carl (1,1)
Mozart, Franz Xaver Wolfgang
(1,1)
Meyerbeer, Giacomo (3,4)
1792
Carcassi, Matteo (3,4)
Rossini, Gioachino
(14,24)
1796
Berwald, Franz
(1,1)
1797
Schubert, Franz
(68,154|1)
Donizetti, Gaetano
(6,9)
1798
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What about Franz Xaver Mozart the son of Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart,
who was Mozart’s last child and lived until approximately 1850, who
himself composed two piano concertos for example.
We now migrate to the Romantic Era, which can be regarded as Drama
and Poetry in Music, and the composers listed infra are as follows:
1800 - 1850top
1801
Kalliwoda, Johann Wenzel
(1,1)
Bellini, Vincenzo (12,14)
1803
Adam, Adolphe
(2,2)
Berlioz, Hector
(10,20)
1804
Strauss, Johann (sr.)
(3,4)
Glinka, Mikhael (5,10)
1805
Saint-Lubin, Léon de
(1,1)
Gauntlett, Henry John
(1,2)
1806
Coste, Napoléon (2,3)
Mertz, Johann Kaspar
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1809
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
(43,83)
1810
Baermann, Carl sr. (1,1)
Chopin, Frédéric
(94,436|1)
Schumann, Robert
(58,131)
1811
Thomas, Ambroise
(1,1)
Liszt, Franz (74,182)
1813
Wagner, Richard (11,32)
Verdi, Giuseppe (19,66)
Alkan, Charles Valentin
(8,10)
1814
Walmisley, Thomas Attwood
(1,1)
1818
Gounod, Charles
(9,23|1)
1819
Suppé, Franz von
(2,2)
Offenbach, Jacques
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1821
Doppler, Franz
(1,1)
1822
Franck, César
(11,17)
1823
Lalo, Édouard (2,3)
Kirchner, Theodor
(1,1)
1824
Smetana, Bedrich
(2,3)
Reinecke, Carl (2,2)
Goltermann, Georg
(1,1)
Bruckner, Anton
(13,23)
1825
Strauss, Johann (jr)
(10,12)
1826
Lowry, Robert (1,2)
Foster, Stephen Collins
(1,1)
1829
Gottschalk, Louis Moreau
(1,1)
Rubinstein, Anton (1,1)
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1832
Genin, Paul Agricole
(1,1)
1833
Brahms, Johannes
(85,220)
Borodin, Alexander (2,2)
1835
Rubinstein, Nikolai (1,1)
Wieniawski, Henryk (4,4)
Saint-Saëns, Camille
(18,28)
1836
Delibes, Leo (3,4)
Gomes, Antônio Carlos
(1,1)
1837
Balakirev, Mily Alexeyevich
(4,7)
Guilmant, Alexandre (4,4)
Dubois, Théodore (2,2)
1838
Bruch, Max (3,5)
Bizet, Georges
(6,17)
1839
Rheinberger, Joseph
(3,3)
Mussorgsky, Modest
(5,13)
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1841
Chabrier, Emmanuel
(1,1)
Pedrell, Felipe (1,1)
Dvořák, Antonín
(35,51)
Tausig, Carl (2,2)
1842
Audran, Edmond
(1,1)
Massenet, Jules
(4,7)
Sullivan, Arthur
(5,8)
Pasculli, Antonio
(1,1)
1843
Ziehrer, Carl Michael
(1,1)
Grieg, Edvard (31,81|
1)
Popper, David (2,2)
1844
Widor, Charles-Marie (3,4)
Sarasate, Pablo de (3,4)
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai
(7,10)
Gigout, Eugène (2,3)
Taffanel, Paul (1,1)
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1845
Fauré, Gabriel
(26,45)
1846
Denza, Luigi (1,1)
Tosti, Francesco Paolo
(12,16)
Strauss, Richard (30,36)
1847
Klughardt, August
(1,1)
1848
Duparc, Henri
(5,7)
Parry, Hubert
(1,2)
1849
Godard, Benjamin
(1,1)
Then we list composers from the Romantic Era to the Late Romantic
Period and then post Romantic Period to Early 20th Century into
modern music, with belive it or not, the element of Jazz and Ragtime
music being factored in, the composers listed infra are as follows:
1850 - 1900top
1850
Scharwenka, Frans Xaver
(1,1)
1851
Indy, Vincent d'
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1852
Stanford, Charles Villiers
(2,5)
Tárrega, Francisco (23,34)
1853
Messager, André
(2,2)
1854
Catalani, Alfredo (1,1)
Janacek, Leos (6,10)
Moszkowski, Moritz
(6,10)
Giménez, Gerónimo
(1,1)
Sousa, John Philip
(29,33)
1855
Chausson, Ernest
(2,2)
Liadov, Anatol
(10,10)
1856
Sinding, Christian
(1,1)
1857
Leoncavallo, Ruggero
(2,4)
Bagley, Edwin Eugene
(1,1)
Elgar, Edward (11,15)
Chaminade, Cécile (2,2)
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1859
Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail
(2,2)
Foerster, Josef Bohuslav
(1,1)
1860
Wolf, Hugo (11,20)
Albéniz, Isaac (10,24)
Mahler, Gustav (8,18)
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan
(3,3)
1861
Catoire, Georges (3,4)
Arensky, Anton (1,2)
Macdowell, Edward Alexander
(3,8)
1862
Delius, Frederick (1,1)
Emmanuel, Maurice (1,1)
Zimmerman, Charles A.
(1,1)
Debussy, Claude
(40,112|1)
Boëllmann, Léon (1,3)
1863
Nazareth, Ernesto
(60,62)
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1864
Lauber, Joseph (1,1)
Gretchaninoff, Alexander
(1,1)
1865
Magnard, Albéric
(2,2)
Nielsen, Carl (4,4)
Dukas, Paul (3,3)
Sibelius, Jean (7,7)
Eugene D’Albert
1866
Manjon, Antonio Jimenez
(1,1)
Kalinnikov, Vasily (1,1)
Busoni, Ferruccio (15,25)
Satie, Eric (14,24)
Cilea, Francesco (2,3)
1867
Peterson-Berger, Wilhelm
(1,1)
Granados, Enrique (23,31)
Beach, Amy (1,1)
1868
Joplin, Scott
(38,69)
1870
Godowsky, Leopold
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1871
Christiansen, F. Melius
(1,1)
Zemlinsky, Alexander von
(1,1)
1872
Malats, Joaquin (1,1)
Scriabin, Alexander (37,80)
Büsser, Henri-Paul (1,1)
Borowski, Felix (1,1)
Vasilenko, Sergei (1,1)
Alfvén, Hugo (1,1)
Vaughan Williams, Ralph
(15,17)
1873
Reger, Max (6,6)
Rachmaninov, Sergei
(32,136)
Roger-Ducasse, Jean (1,1)
Serrano, José (1,1)
Rabaud, Henri (1,1)
Handy, William Christopher
(1,1)
Jongen, Joseph (1,1)
1874
Cardillo, Salvatore
(1,2)
Schönberg, Arnold
(8,10)
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1875
Gliere, Reinhold (1,1)
Kreisler, Fritz (4,4)
Ravel, Maurice (22,68)
Ketèlbey, Albert (6,6)
Hahn, Reynaldo (4,5)
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
(1,1)
Curtis, Ernesto de (2,3)
1876
Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno
(3,5)
Falla, Manuel de (8,18|
1)
Casals, Pablo (1,1)
1877
Tchesnokov, Pavel
(2,3)
Bortkiewicz, Serge
(5,7)
Dohnányi, Ernst von
(1,1)
Karg-Elert, Sigfrid
(3,5)
Leontovych, Mykola
(1,1)
1878
Palmgren, Selim
(2,2)
Llobet, Miguel (1,1)
Caplet, André (1,1)
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1880
Medtner, Nikolai
(5,6)
Bloch, Ernest (2,2)
Willan, Healey
(2,3)
1881
Bartók, Béla (19,24)
Enescu, George (2,2)
López Buchardo, Carlos (1,1)
Fillmore, Henry (2,2)
Cadman, Charles Wakefield
(1,1)
1882
Stravinsky, Igor
(11,19)
Grainger, Percy (8,9)
Hurum, Alf (1,1)
Szymanowski, Karol
(4,8)
Ponce, Manuel (5,5)
Turina, Joaquín (5,6)
Kodály, Zoltán (3,3)
1883
Casella, Alfredo (1,1)
Pernambuco, João
(2,2)
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1884
Texidor, Jaime
(1,1)
1885
Kern, Jerome (3,3)
Berg, Alban (6,11)
Scott, James (2,2)
Barrios, Agustín
(9,15)
1886
Pujol, Emilio (1,1)
Schoeck, Othmar
(1,1)
Guridi, Jesús (1,1)
1887
Villa-Lobos, Heitor
(18,26)
Eller, Heino (1,1)
Romberg, Sigmund
(2,3)
Lamb, Joseph (1,1)
Gardel, Carlos (1,1)
1888
Berlin, Irving
(3,4)
1889
Dinicu, Grigoras
(1,3)
1890
Murray, Alan (1,1)
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1891
Stutschewsky, Joachim
(1,1)
King, Karl (3,3)
Moreno-Torroba, Federico
(6,8)
Prokofiev, Sergei (18,32)
Porter, Cole (1,1)
Grandjany, Marcel (1,1)
1892
Honegger, Arthur (4,4)
Tailleferre, Germaine
(1,1)
Niles, John Jacob (1,1)
Milhaud, Darius (5,6)
Howells, Herbert (3,5)
Hernández, Rafael
(1,1)
Guion, David Wendel
(1,1)
1893
Segovia, Andrés (2,2)
Mompou, Federico (6,6)
Moore, Douglas (1,1)
Wiechowicz, Stanislaw
(1,1)
Ornstein, Leo (23,31)
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1895
Brustad, Bjarne (1,1)
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario
(1,1)
Still, William Grant (1,1)
Jacob, Gordon (2,3)
Orff, Carl (1,7)
Lecuona, Ernesto (7,11)
Borovička, Antonín (1,1)
Hindemith, Paul (14,16)
Kempff, Wilhelm (3,6)
1896
Tansman, Alexandre
(2,2)
Szeligowski, Tadeusz
(1,1)
1897
Obradors, Fernando (1,1)
Cowell, Henry (3,3)
Matos Rodriguez, Gerardo
(1,2)
Rocha Vianna, Alfredo da
(2,2)
Bernard, Felix (1,1)
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang
(1,1)
Ben-Haim, Paul (2,2)
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1899
Poulenc, Francis (22,34)
Vladigerov, Pancho (10,11)
Thompson, Randall (4,6)
Ellington, Edward Kennedy "Duke"
(8,9)
Young, Victor (1,1)
Dawson, William Levi (5,6)
Bardos, Lajos (2,3)
Coward, Noel (1,1)
1900 - top
1900
Warren, Elinor Remick
(9,9)
Weill, Kurt (5,5|1)
Krenek, Ernst (1,1)
Marks, Gerald (1,2)
Copland, Aaron (5,9)
1901
Apostel, Hans Erich (1,1)
Loewe, Frederick (2,4)
Crawford-Seeger, Ruth
(1,1)
Hairston, Jester (3,4)
Finzi, Gerald (2,3)
Work, John Wesley III
(1,1)
Rodrigo, Joaquin (4,5)
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1903
Sainz de la Maza, Eduardo
(2,2)
Nyíregyházi, Ervin (1,1)
Khachaturian, Aram (4,5)
Barroso, Ary (1,1)
Arrieu, Claude (1,1)
Lavry, Marc (1,1)
1904
Dallapiccola, Luigi
(2,2)
Kabalevsky, Dmitri
(5,6)
1905
Scelsi, Giacinto
(1,1)
Halffter, Ernesto
(1,1)
Arlen, Harold (1,2)
Bozza, Eugène (2,2)
Seiber, Matyas (1,1)
Jolivet, André (1,1)
Poston, Elisabeth
(1,3)
Styne, Jule (1,1)
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1907
Langlais, Jean
(1,1)
Wilder, Alec (1,1)
Rozsa, Miklos
(1,1)
Saygun, Adnan
(1,2)
1908
Distler, Hugo (1,1)
Anderson, Leroy
(5,5)
Tveitt, Geirr (2,4)
Stevens, Halsey
(1,1)
Messiaen, Olivier
(8,8)
Carter, Elliott (4,4)
1909
Genzmer, Harald
(1,1)
Litaize, Gaston
(1,1)
1910
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1911
Alain, Jehan (1,1)
Simeone, Harry (2,2)
Menotti, Gian Carlo
(2,2)
Rota, Nino (4,4)
1912
Guastavino, Carlos
(2,2)
Françaix, Jean (6,6)
Dahl, Ingolf (1,1)
Cage, John (1,1)
1913
Lutoslawski, Witold
(4,5)
Etler, Alvin (2,2)
Bettinelli, Bruno (1,1)
Gould, Morton (3,3)
Britten, Benjamin
(7,10)
1914
Fine, Irving
(1,1)
1915
Persichetti, Vincent
(1,1)
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1917
Smith-Brindle, Reginald
(4,4)
Gardner, John (1,1)
Lauro, Antonio (4,4)
Monk, Thelonious (1,1)
1918
Bernstein, Leonard
(6,12)
1919
Kirchner, Leon (2,2)
Manz, Paul (1,1)
Ustvolskaya, Galina
(1,1)
Nelhybel, Vaclav (5,5)
Duarte, John W. (2,3)
Young, Gordon (1,1)
Klein, Gideon (1,1)
1920
Parker, Charlie
(2,2)
1921
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1922
Walker, George
(2,3)
Bonfá, Luiz (1,1)
1923
Kalabis, Viktor
(4,5)
Williams, Clifton
(2,3)
Jones, Thad (2,2)
Ligeti, György
(7,9)
Rorem, Ned (2,2)
1924
Nestico, Sammy
(1,1)
1925
Parker, Alice (2,2)
Mechem, Kirke
(2,2)
Somers, Harry
(1,1)
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1926
Feldman, Morton (1,1)
Castérède, Jacques
(1,1)
Davis, Miles (1,1)
Floyd, Carlisle (1,1)
Smith, William O. (2,2)
1927
Jobim, Antonio Carlos
(5,5)
Kander, John (1,1)
Diemer, Emma Lou
(1,1)
1928
Lukáš, Zdeněk (2,2)
Damase, Jean-Michel
(1,1)
Adler, Samuel (1,1)
Tučapský, Antonín (1,1)
Musgrave, Thea (1,1)
Druckman, Jacob (1,1)
Stockhausen, Karlheinz
(1,1)
Rautavaara, Einojuhani
(1,1)
Morricone, Ennio (1,1)
1929
Houdy, Pierick (1,1)
Eben, Petr (1,1)
Muczynski, Robert
(2,2)
Crumb, George (1,1)
Farberman, Harold
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1930
Dubois, Pierre Max
(1,1)
Sondheim, Stephen
(1,1)
Bolling, Claude (2,3)
Gulda, Friedrich (1,1)
Bart, Lionel (1,1)
Świder, Józef (2,2)
Beck, John Ness (2,2)
1931
Morel, Jorge
(2,2)
Ortolani, Riz
(1,1)
1932
Spencer, Willametta
(1,1)
Williams, John T. (7,7)
Schifrin, Lalo (1,1)
Zawinul, Joe (1,1)
Chance, John Barnes
(1,1)
1933
Ichiyanagi, Toshi (1,1)
Schafer, R. Murray (1,1)
Penderecki, Krzysztof
(1,1)
Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj
(1,1)
1934
Kelly, Bryan (2,2)
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1935
Sheriff, Noam (1,1)
Lorentzen, Bent (1,1)
Ringger, Rolf Urs (2,2)
Butterley, Nigel (1,1)
Marzi, Bepi de (1,2)
Schickele, Peter (1,1)
Pärt, Arvo (3,3)
Manzanero, Armando
(1,1)
1936
Eröd, Iván (1,1)
Reimann, Aribert (4,4)
Bennett, Richard Rodney
(1,1)
Matarazzo, Maysa (1,1)
1937
Woolfenden, Guy
(1,1)
Grau, Alberto (1,1)
1938
Montaña, Gentil
(1,1)
Hemphill, Julius
(3,3)
Corigliano, John
(1,1)
Bolcom, William
(6,8)
Tower, Joan (2,2)
Borgo, Elliot Del
(1,1)
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1940
Hancock, Herbie
(1,1)
1941
Gilardino, Angelo
(1,1)
Corea, Chick (2,2)
1942
Rainger, Ralph
(1,1)
Bantzer, Claus
(1,1)
1943
Tcherepnin, Ivan
(1,1)
Lauridsen, Morten
(6,8)
Vangelis (2,2)
Curnow, James (1,1)
Maslanka, David
(1,1)
Edwards, Ross (1,1)
1944
Tavener, John (2,6)
Jenkins, Karl (3,5)
Biberian, Gilbert (1,1)
Schönberg, Claude-Michel
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1945
Gregson, Edward
(1,1)
Lee, Thomas Oboe
(1,1)
Rutter, John (19,28)
Rosner, Arnold (1,1)
Holsinger, David (8,8)
1946
Wilson, Dana (3,3)
Kuwahara, Yasuo
(1,1)
Cocciante, Richard
(1,1)
Boyd, Anne (1,1)
Isaacson, Michael
(1,1)
1947
Domeniconi, Carlo
(1,1)
Holmes, Rupert (1,1)
Orbán, György (1,1)
Pacchioni, Giorgio
(1,1)
1948
Schwartz, Stephen (1,2)
Webber, Andrew Lloyd
(3,6)
Berkeley, Michael (1,1)
D'Rivera, Paquito (2,2)
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1950
Kendrick, Graham
(1,1)
Aguiar, Ernani (1,2)
Larsen, Libby (4,5)
1951
Sparke, Philip
(1,1)
1952
Hyla, Lee (1,1)
Assad, Sergio
(2,2)
1953
Machado, Celso (1,1)
Stroope, Z. Randall
(4,5)
Clausen, René (3,3)
Mintzer, Bob (1,1)
Meij, Johan de (4,6)
1954
Daugherty, Michael
(2,3)
Stamp, Jack (3,3)
Camphouse, Mark
(2,2)
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1955
Chilcott, Robert "Bob"
(4,4)
Dyens, Roland (2,2)
1956
Danielpour, Richard
(1,1)
Roost, Jan Van der
(2,2)
1957
Ellerby, Martin
(1,2)
Hogan, Moses
(2,2)
Melillo, Stephen
(8,8)
1958
Ticheli, Frank
(30,47)
Smith, Robert W.
(9,9)
York, Andrew (5,5)
1959
Leek, Stephen (3,3)
Uematsu, Nobuo
(1,1)
1960
Kernis, Aaron Jay
(1,1)
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1961
Liebermann, Lowell
(1,1)
1962
Buchenberg, Wolfram
(1,1)
Hyldgaard, Søren (1,1)
1963
Mäntyjärvi, Jaakko
(2,2)
Basler, Paul (2,2)
1964
Kanno, Yoko
(1,1)
1966
Ferran, Ferrer
(1,1)
Hazo, Samuel
(4,6)
Doss, Thomas
(1,1)
1968
Hesketh, Kenneth
(1,1)
1969
Wachner, Julian
(1,1)
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1972
Mitsuda, Yasunori
(3,3)
1973
Appermont, Bert
(1,1)
1975
Dorman, Avner
(1,1)
There has through the dawn of ages been different styles and genres
of music from time immemorial to the present day, some worth
listening to and some horrible to listen to.
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Armenia
Khachaturian, Aram
(4,5)
Australia
Boyd, Anne (1,1)
Butterley, Nigel (1,1)
Edwards, Ross (1,1)
Grainger, Percy (8,9)
Leek, Stephen (3,3)
Traditional Australian
(2,2)
Vine, Carl (1,1)
Austria
Albrechtsberger, Johann Georg
(3,3)
Apostel, Hans Erich (1,1)
Berg, Alban (6,11)
Bruckner, Anton (13,23)
Czerny, Carl (1,1)
Diabelli, Anton (1,1)
Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von (3,3)
Doss, Thomas (1,1)
Eröd, Iván (1,1)
Eybler, Joseph Leopold (1,1)
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Belgium
Appermont, Bert (1,1)
Arcadelt, Jacob (3,5)
Clemens non Papa, Jacobus
(1,2)
Dufay, Guillaume (1,1)
Franck, César (11,17)
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Brazil
Aguiar, Ernani (1,2)
Assad, Sergio (2,2)
Barroso, Ary (1,1)
Bonfá, Luiz (1,1)
Curitiba, Henrique de (1,1)
Gomes, Antônio Carlos
(1,1)
Jobim, Antonio Carlos (5,5)
Machado, Celso (1,1)
Matarazzo, Maysa (1,1)
Nazareth, Ernesto (60,62)
Pernambuco, João (2,2)
Reis, Dilermando (1,1)
Rocha Vianna, Alfredo da
(2,2)
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (18,26)
Bulgaria
Vladigerov, Pancho
(10,11)
Byelorussia
Berlin, Irving
(3,4)
Canada
Douglas, Bill (2,2)
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China
Lee, Thomas Oboe
(1,1)
Traditional Chinese
(2,2)
Colombia
Montaña, Gentil
(1,1)
Croatia
Suppé, Franz von
(2,2)
Cuba
Brouwer, Leo (3,4)
D'Rivera, Paquito
(2,2)
Lecuona, Ernesto
(7,11)
Traditional Cuban
(1,1)
Czech Republic
Biber, Heinrich I.F. von (1,1)
Borovička, Antonín (1,1)
Cernohorský, Bohuslav Matej
(1,1)
Dusek, Frantisek Xaver (1,1)
Dussek, Jan Ladislav (3,3)
Dvořák, Antonín (35,51)
Eben, Petr (1,1)
Foerster, Josef Bohuslav (1,1)
Janacek, Leos (6,10)
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Denmark
Buxtehude, Dietrich
(9,12)
Hyldgaard, Søren (1,1)
Lorentzen, Bent (1,1)
Nielsen, Carl (4,4)
Reinecke, Carl (2,2)
What about Niels Gade
who composed a fair
amount of works and
also Hans Christian
Lumbaye who was
known as the “Strauss
of the North”
Estonia
A composer by
the name of
Tobias
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Finland
Mäntyjärvi, Jaakko (2,2)
Palmgren, Selim (2,2)
Rautavaara, Einojuhani
(1,1)
Sibelius, Jean (7,7)
France
Adam, Adolphe (2,2)
Alain, Jehan (1,1)
Alkan, Charles Valentin (8,10)
Arbeau, Thoinot (1,1)
Arrieu, Claude (1,1)
Attaingnant, Pierre (2,2)
Audran, Edmond (1,1)
Berlioz, Hector (10,20)
Bizet, Georges (6,17)
Blavet, Michel (1,1)
Bochsa, Nicholas Charles (1,1)
Bolling, Claude (2,3)
Bozza, Eugène (2,2)
Burgundy, Wipo of (1,2)
Büsser, Henri-Paul (1,1)
Caplet, André (1,1)
Castérède, Jacques (1,1)
Certon, Pierre (1,2)
Chabrier, Emmanuel (1,1)
Chaminade, Cécile (2,2)
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine (7,7)
Chausson, Ernest (2,2)
Cocciante, Richard (1,1)
Corrette, Michel (2,2)
Coste, Napoléon (2,3)
Costeley, Guillaume (1,1)
Couperin, François (5,5)
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Germany
Aichinger, Gregor (1,1)
Albert, Heinrich (1,1)
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (4,5)
Bach, Johan Christian (2,2)
Bach, Johann Sebastian (242,521)
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Germany (cont.)
Kaufmann, Georg Friedrich (1,1)
Kellner, David (4,5)
Kempff, Wilhelm (3,6)
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Hungary
Bardos, Lajos (2,3)
Bartók, Béla (19,24)
Dohnányi, Ernst von
(1,1)
Kodály, Zoltán (3,3)
Lehár, Franz (1,1)
Ligeti, György (7,9)
Liszt, Franz (74,182)
Orbán, György (1,1)
Romberg, Sigmund
(2,3)
Rozsa, Miklos (1,1)
Seiber, Matyas (1,1)
What about the
famous violinist and
composer Josef
Joachim
Ireland
Dowland, John (20,25)
Field, John (5,7)
O'Carolan, Turlough (1,1)
Stanford, Charles Villiers
(2,5)
Traditional Irish (11,13)
Israel
Ben-Haim, Paul (2,2)
Dorman, Avner (1,1)
Lavry, Marc (1,1)
Ran, Shulamit (2,2)
Sheriff, Noam (1,1)
Traditional Jewish
(1,1)
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Italy
Albinoni, Tomaso (2,2)
Allegri, Gregorio (1,1)
Animuccia, Giovanni (1,1)
Azzaiolo, Filippo (3,3)
Banchieri, Adriano (4,4)
Bellini, Vincenzo (12,14)
Bencini, Pietro Paolo (1,1)
Berio, Luciano (2,2)
Bertoli, Giovanni Antonio (1,1)
Bettinelli, Bruno (1,1)
Boccherini, Luigi (5,5)
Brescianello, Guiseppe Antonio
(1,1)
Broschi, Riccardo (1,1)
Busoni, Ferruccio (15,25)
Caccini, Giulio (4,8)
Calace, Raphael (4,4)
Caldara, Antonio (2,4)
Capirola, Vincenzo (2,2)
Carcassi, Matteo (3,4)
Cardillo, Salvatore (1,2)
Carissimi, Giacomo (4,5)
Carulli, Ferdinando (5,5)
Casella, Alfredo (1,1)
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario (1,1)
Catalani, Alfredo (1,1)
Cherubini, Luigi (1,1)
Cilea, Francesco (2,3)
Cimarosa, Domenico (8,8)
Clari, Giovanni Carlo Maria (1,1)
Clementi, Muzio (9,11)
Corbetta, Francesco (1,1)
Corelli, Arcangelo (3,4)
Curtis, Ernesto de (2,3)
Dallapiccola, Luigi (2,2)
Dalza, Joan Ambrosio (1,1)
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Japan
Ichiyanagi, Toshi (1,1)
Ito, Yasuhide (1,1)
Kanno, Yoko (1,1)
Kuwahara, Yasuo (1,1)
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Liechtenstein
Rheinberger, Joseph
(3,3)
Lithuania
Godowsky, Leopold
(6,10)
Mexico
Manzanero, Armando
(1,1)
Ponce, Manuel (5,5)
Netherlands
Eyck, Jacob van (1,1)
Goens, Daniel van (1,1)
Meij, Johan de (4,6)
Noordt, Anthoni van (1,1)
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon
(2,2)
Nigeria
Traditional Nigerian
(1,1)
Norway
Brustad, Bjarne (1,1)
Christiansen, F. Melius
(1,1)
Grieg, Edvard (31,81|1)
Hurum, Alf (1,1)
Sinding, Christian (1,1)
Tveitt, Geirr (2,4)
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Paraguay
Barrios, Agustín
(9,15)
Peru
Traditional Peruvian
(2,2)
Poland
Chopin, Frédéric (94,436|
1)
Gomólka, Mikolaj (1,1)
Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj
(1,1)
Lutoslawski, Witold (4,5)
Moszkowski, Moritz
(6,10)
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan
(3,3)
Penderecki, Krzysztof
(1,1)
Stojowski, Zygmunt (1,1)
Świder, Józef (2,2)
Szamotulski, Waclaw
(1,1)
Szeligowski, Tadeusz
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Szymanowski, Karol (4,8)
Tansman, Alexandre
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Puerto Rico
Hernández, Rafael
(1,1)
Romania
Bakfark, Bálint (1,1)
Dinicu, Grigoras (1,3)
Enescu, George (2,2)
Traditional Romanian
(2,2)
Russia
Arensky, Anton (1,2)
Balakirev, Mily Alexeyevich
(4,7)
Borodin, Alexander (2,2)
Catoire, Georges (3,4)
Glinka, Mikhael (5,10)
Gretchaninoff, Alexander
(1,1)
Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail
(2,2)
Kabalevsky, Dmitri (5,6)
Kalinnikov, Vasily (1,1)
Kuryokhin, Sergey (1,1)
Liadov, Anatol (10,10)
Lvov, Alexis (1,1)
Medtner, Nikolai (5,6)
Mussorgsky, Modest (5,13)
Prokofiev, Sergei (18,32)
Rachmaninov, Sergei
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Slovenia
Gallus, Jacobus (3,3)
Mertz, Johann Kaspar
(4,5)
Spain
Aguado, Dionisio (1,1)
Albéniz, Isaac (10,24)
Bruna, Pablo (1,2)
Busto, Javier (5,5)
Cabanilles, Joan Baptista
(1,1)
Casals, Pablo (1,1)
Codax, Martin (2,2)
Encina, Juan del (4,5)
Escobedo, Bartolomé de
(1,1)
Falla, Manuel de (8,18|1)
Spain (cont.)
Ferran, Ferrer (1,1)
Fuenllana, Miguel de (4,8)
Giménez, Gerónimo (1,1)
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Switzerland
Bloch, Ernest (2,2)
Lauber, Joseph
(1,1)
Martin, Frank (2,2)
Ringger, Rolf Urs
(2,2)
Schoeck, Othmar
(1,1)
Senfl, Ludwig (2,2)
Turkey
Saygun, Adnan (1,2)
Traditional Ladino
(1,1)
U.S.A.
Adler, Richard (1,1)
Adler, Samuel (1,1)
Arlen, Harold (1,2)
Babbitt, Milton (1,1)
Bagley, Edwin Eugene (1,1)
Basler, Paul (2,2)
Beach, Amy (1,1)
Beck, John Ness (2,2)
Bennett, Richard Rodney (1,1)
Bergsma, William (1,1)
Bernard, Felix (1,1)
Bernstein, Leonard (6,12)
Billings, William (4,5)
Bolcom, William (6,8)
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Ukraine
Bortkiewicz, Serge
(5,7)
Bortnyansky, Dmitry
(1,2)
Doppler, Franz (1,1)
Gliere, Reinhold (1,1)
Leontovych, Mykola
(1,1)
Siloti, Alexander
(13,16|1)
United Kingdom
Anderson, Leroy (5,5)
Arnold, Malcolm (2,3)
Barber, Samuel (14,22)
Bart, Lionel (1,1)
Berkeley, Michael (1,1)
Bevin, Elway (1,1)
Biberian, Gilbert (1,1)
Borowski, Felix (1,1)
Boyce, William (1,1)
Bridge, Frank (1,1)
Britten, Benjamin (7,10)
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Unknown
Traditional Caribian
(1,1)
Uruguay
Matos Rodriguez, Gerardo
(1,2)
Venezuela
Estévez, Antonio
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Now if one were to look at say Venezuela for example one sees a name
missing, namely Theresa Carenjo a pupil of Louis Morreaux Gottschalk
a famous American composer and one time a wife of a pupil of Liszt,
the English German composer by the name of Eugene D'Albert.
It is interesting to note that a Venezuela has more symphony
orchestras in comparison to other countries, which is a fact not known
by many.
The styles in music from a Western Musical Perspective, would have
been as follows, namely
The Middle Ages to the Renaissance period being from say 600
AD, but officially from say 1136 right through to say 1597.
The Baroque Era from 1600 to 1750.
The Classical Period from 1750 to 1830.
The Romantic Era from in my opinion from 1790 to about say
1895.
The Rise of Nationalism during the Romantic Era say from 1848
right through to the 1940's and beyond.
The Later Romantics in my opinion from 1890 right throughout
the twentieth century.
The Early Twentieth Century.
Music since World War Two.
Popularity of classical composers would have been as follows:
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The above being the main composers, where recorded and printed
(published) Music might be found.
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Artist Statement
to dance is more than executing steps. For me, dance is life. My love
for dance is rooted in the process of training with Master teachers and
traveling to the origins of the places where cultural dance forms
persist. Dance is my vehicle for contributing to the preservation of
culture and for celebrating the similarities and differences of our
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Education
Master of Arts in Dance, UCLA Department of World Arts and Culture
Bachelor of Arts in International Studies of Africa, Portland State
University
Certificate, Black Studies
University Teaching
UCLA, Department of World Arts and Culture
Occidental College, Department of Theater and Dance
Cal State University Los Angeles, Department of Theater and Dance
Portland State University, Department of Black Studies
Youth Teaching
Los Angeles Public Library Young Adults Program
Segev and Sara’s Super Duper Arts Camp
Focus Fish Youth Outreach Program
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Performance Venues
Town Hall (New York City), UCLA Fowler Museum, The Dorothy
Chandler Pavilion, The House Of Blues (Anaheim & Sunset Blvd), The
John Ansen Ford Theater (Hollywood), The Hollywood Bowl (Summer
Sounds), Highways Performance Space (Santa Monica), The Alex
Theater (Glendale), Temple Bar (Santa Monica), The Conduit (Portland),
Mission District Carnival (San Francisco), Wesleyan College
(Connecticut), Bergamont Station (Santa Monica), Museum of Latin
American Art (Long Beach), National Hispanic Cultural Center
(Albuquerque), Lensic Performing Arts Center (Santa Fe), Taos
Performing Arts Center (Taos), Lincoln Performing Arts Center (Ft.
Collins), Memorial Union (Oregon), Villa Vela (Salvador, Bahia), etc
Apprenticeships
Francisco Aguabella, Juan De Dios de Morejon, Rosangela Silvestre,
Dona Cici, Jose Ricardo Souza Luiz Badaro, Teresita Dome Perez, Juan
Carlos Blanco, Silfredo La'O Vigo, Susana Arenas Pedroso, Ramon
Ramos Alayo, Candice Goucher, Kofi E. Agorsah, Catherine Evleshin,
Halbert Barton, and Keith V. Goodman.
Consulting/Grant Writing
18th Street Arts Center
Viver Brasil Dance Company
Leonida Flipside Productions”
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There are different types and genres of dancing both professional and recreational,
including religious and cultural as well. Dancing can be done by the same sex together
such as the Dervishes in Sufi Dancing which is done by males in Islamic Mysticism, a
woman in Arab Culture doing belly dancing to entice her husband, ballet done by both
male and female either together, solo or separate parts that are sex (gender specific) such
as the sailors' dance in the ballet “The Red Poppy” by Reinhold Moresewitz Glierre, Gum
boot dancing done by same sex in South Africa, Spanish Flamenco Dancing done by
women with castanets (which is different to what a percussionist uses in a symphony
orchestra), waltzes, mazurkas, polonaises, ecossaise (Scottish Dancing), polkas, fox trots,
tango (invented in Argentina), Latin American Dancing, and others which men and
women do together.
There are other ethnic dancing as well, which includes Cuban dancing, Israeli Hora
dancing, and Indian Dancing which can be divided into traditional and Bollywood
dancing. Not to mention African Tribal Dancing and other forms dancing right
throughout the world.
Ball Room dancing has within itself different types of dances that have been formulated
right throughout the world, such as the foxtrot, quicksep, waltz, samba, mamba, tcha tcha
and the tango (a dance developed in Argentina in the 1700’s.
Ball Room dancing has not only become a source of recreation, but has also become a
sort of a sport with contestants winning prizes and trophies.
French, Russian and English composers have composed music with Spannish themes,
although some of the composers have not been to Spain ever in their life, yet their music
sounds very much Spannish, which includes the use of castanets in the percussion section
of the orchestra.
Then what about the polkas danced in Germany and the flamencos in Spain!
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Ballet can also be added to operas, operettas and musicals. It is interesting to note that in
operas composed by both Italian and French composers for performances in France had
ballet scenes added as required from a performance and marketing perspective.
Then there is also modern dancing, rock and roll, country dancing, jigs and can can type
dancing found in night clubs in the 19th and 20th centuries in France.
Therefore man has had different types and genres of dancing to choose from and no
doubt new types of dancing will be discovered and formed in the future and in time to
come.
“Musical innovation is full of danger to the state, for when modes of music change, the
laws of the state always change with them”. (Plato, c, 428 BC to 347 BC)
With the end of the 19th Century drawing to an end, it has become apparent that
Romanticism has run its course and has now come to an end.
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Sung By
Madames
Frances Alda, Zabetta Brenska, Pauline Donalda, Alma Gluck,
Louis Homer, Mary Jordan, Christine Miller, Alice Nielson,
Anito Rio, Emma Roberts and Mercella Sembrich.
Messrs.
Paul Althouse, Dan Beddoe, Charles Norman Granville,
George Hamlin, Percy Hemus, Arthur Herschmann,
Redferne Hollinshead, Francis Rogers, Edgar Schoefield
And William Wheller.
Respectfully dedicated to
Miss Mary Jordan
"Deep River" (1917)
Song
Old Negro Melody
Arranged by
H. T. Burleigh
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Arnold Schoenberg who was born in 1874 and a pupil of Alexander von Zemlinsky was
interested in the impressionist paintings of Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, etc. and although
was himself a late romantic composer, with Verklarte Nacht as one of his most important
of works, however looking at impressionist art works, not to mention the expressionist
styles of painting by associated with the works of Franz Marc, Emil Nolde and Vasily
Kandinsky of the Blaue Raiter movement (to which Schoenberg, as a Sunday painter,
was also affiliated), decided to change his style of writing music from tonal (where the
tune can clearly be made out to a system of atonalism wherein each note on the music
script is given an equal weight. The music was to sound a lot more different and “scary”
to say the very least, and not easy to listen to, for which a new taste was to be acquired in
the process with audiences, musicians and critics having to adapt to this new style of
music. Furocio Busoni (a pupil of Liszt), was also to make use of this style of writing
music.
Hans Pfitzner who was born in Moscow, whilst his parents were working there, then
arrived in Germany with His Parents at a young age, who composed his operas in the late
Romantic Period, wrote a pamphlet publicly criticizing both Schoenberg and Busoni for
kind of music that they have composed, that was from Pfitzner's perspective to be
difficult to listen to and difficult to interpret as well.
With the early 20th Century, whilst not all music was difficult to listen to, there were
some very nice songs, musicals and operettas to choose from, not to mention some rag
time music and believe it or not some (late) romantic music to choose from.
Franz Schmidt born in 1874 a contemporary of Gustav Mahler, who was born in 1869,
who were rivals of each other, was to compose some very beautiful works, in the
romantic tradition, such as his opera “Notre Dame” and his symphony no.2, however
Schmidt’s 4th Symphony (Hussar)is more heavy to listen to than his 2nd Symphony.
Gustav Mahler and Faruccio Busoni (like Anton Bruckner) and also Harvagal Brian and
Furtwangler were notorious for composing long works, which some included extremely
large orchestras and choirs.
Busoni’s Piano concerto has five movements, which is a long piece of over 1 and a half
hour in length with believe it or not, an offstage male choir in the last (finale) movement.
Mahler 8th Symphony requires a large concert auditorium for performances.
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A lot of the ballets of the early 20th Century were short pieces with the noticeable
exception of the ballets of Sergey Prokofiev.
Songs for the mass market especially rag time songs, songs from the musicals and
operettas were easy to listen to and easy to play and perform. Most certainly music that
the masses could relate to!
Such as the “Geisha Girl” a master piece by Sidney Jones (very similar in style to the 19 th
century operas by Gilbert and Sullivan), the “Merry Widow” by Franz Lehar, “Cho Cho
Chan”, “Show Boat” by Jerome Kern and believe it or not the opera “Porgy and Bess” by
George Gershwin in the 1930's. Also the rag time songs of Scott Joplin come to mind.
Naturally the First World War and its aftermath were to change the landscape of music
for ever.
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The first performers since time immemorial were mainly men especially in Biblical times
but whilst the men were mainly composers and performers, women were on the main
only performers and rarely composers.
The first person to compose the first known piece of classical music according to Richard
Fawkes in his four audio compact disc audio book, “The History of Classical Music,
Naxos, credits Hildegard of Bingen as being the first composer of classical music, who as
an abbess composed music for her nuns to sing. It is interesting to note that it was a
woman not a man who composed the first piece of classical music. Other famous women
who themselves were to compose classical music would have been between 18th, 19th and
20th centuries, such as Maria von Paridis (Siccilienne), Clara Schumann (1819 to 1896)
(who composed a piano concerto and some chamber music), Cecille Chamenade (who
composed Autimme and other piano pieces) and Nadia Boulonger (who composed songs,
etc.).
Up to the renaissance and baroque periods, men were the dramatists, performers,
composers and artists. Men dressed up as women or in singing boys were castrated to
enable them when as adult men to keep their voices at a high pitch. (Albert Morreche was
to be the last known castrate for which early recordings of his voice was to be made.
Women were unlike the men to be increasingly taking on both singing and performing
roles in music, drama, singing, opera, ballet and in art as well, but unfortunately few in
numbers to compose music, and many women were so called amateur singers in their
own homes as well.
Here is a list of the bulk of the women composers as shown infra, as follows:
Woman Composers
Arrieu, Claude
Beach, Amy
Bingen, Hildegard von
Boyd, Anne
Chaminade, Cécile
Diemer, Emma Lou
Jacquet de La Guerre, Elisabeth
Kanno, Yoko
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Note that Hildegard of Bingen does not feature in this list as shown supra.
Maud Powell a very famous American Violinist did arrangements and transcribing music
to do with her instrument and was herself actively involved in the suffragette movement.
When looking at disabilities and minorities then there are lesser known composers as
listed infra, namely
Blind Composers
Bruna, Pablo
Fuenllana, Miguel de
Jezek, Jaroslav
Langlais, Jean
Litaize, Gaston
O'Carolan, Turlough
Paradis, Maria Theresia von
Rodrigo, Joaquin
Stanley, John
Vierne, Louis
Black Composers
Brouwer, Leo
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
Davis, Miles
Dawson, William Levi
Hairston, Jester
Handy, William Christopher
Hemphill, Julius
Joplin, Scott
Machado, Celso
Monk, Thelonious
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Women were to enter the performance and entertainment fields along with the male
performers in the different fields of art, performance, opera, ballet, church and other art
and performance modalities.
Marin Alsop is a famous woman conductor, Lucia Popp, Maria Callas, Jenny Lind,
Geodetta Pasta, the Grissi sisters, Dame Kirry te Kanawa, Adelina Patti were famous
opera and operetta singers, Julie Andrews famous in film musicals, and the list can go on
and on.
A stop quite recently was put to the use of castrate in the performing arts, so therefor the
arts have been opened up to both sexes on an equal footing.
Many of Ameria's leading composers were students (pupils) of Nadia Boulanger, namely,
Aaron Copeland, Walter Piston and Virgil Thompson, as mentioned in Mann, W, James
Galway's Music in Time, (c.1980's) Mitchell Beazley.
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According Wikki Pedia Jazz can be described as the following as quoted as verbatim,
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Jazz has been and was originally established by American Negro Slaves as a form of
musical entertainment, progressed from Rag Time (Scott Joplin) right through to the
present form as it is in use today.
Another perspective on the history of Jazz has been taken verbatim from
http://m.bobhuang.com/essays/jazz.htm which is as follows,
“History of Jazz
In the span of less than a century, the remarkable native American music
called Jazz has risen from obscure folk origins to become this country's most
significant original art form, loved and played in nearly every land on earth.
Today, Jazz flourishes in many styles, from basic blues and ragtime through
New Orleans and Dixieland, swing and mainstream, bebop and modern to free
form and electronic. What is extraordinary is not that Jazz has taken so many
forms, but that each form has been vital enough to survive and to retain its
own character and special appeal. It takes only open ears and an open mind to
appreciate all the many and wide-raging delights jazz has to offer.
THE ROOTS
Jazz developed from folk sources. Its origins are shrouded in obscurity, but
the slaves brought here from Africa, torn from their own ancestral culture,
developed it as a new form of communication in song and story.
The most famous form of early Afro-American music is the spiritual. These
beautiful and moving religious songs were most often heard by white
audiences in more genteel versions than those performed in rural black
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Other early musical forms dating from the slavery years include work songs,
children's songs, and dances, adding up to a remarkable legacy, especially
since musical activity was considerable restricted under that system.
After the slaves were freed, Afro-American music grew rapidly. The
availability of musical instruments, including military band discards, and the
new-found mobility gave birth to the basic roots of Jazz: brass and dance band
music and the blues.
The blues, a seemingly simple form of music that nevertheless lends itself to
almost infinite variation, has been a significant part of every Jazz style, and
has also survived in its own right. Today's rock and soul music would be
impossible without the blues. Simply explained, it is and eight (or twelve) bar
strain with lyrics in which the first stanza is repeated. It gets its characteristic
"blue" quality from a flattening of the third and seventh notes of the
tempered scale. In effect, the blues is the secular counterpart of the
spirituals.
By the late 1880's, there were black brass, dance and concert bands in most
southern cities. (At the same time, black music in the north was generally
more European-oriented.) Around this era, ragtime began to emerge. Though
primarily piano music, bands also began to pick it up and perform it. Ragtime's
golden age was roughly from 1898 to 1908, but its total span began earlier and
lingered much later. Recently, it has been rediscovered. A music of great
melodic charm, its rhythms are heavily syncopated, but it has almost no blues
elements. Ragtime and early Jazz are closely related, but ragtime certainly
was more sedate.
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The city that has become synonymous with early Jazz is New Orleans. There is
reality as well as myth behind this notion.
New Orleans played a key role in the birth and growth of Jazz, and the music's
early history has been more thoroughly researched and documented there
than anywhere else. But, while the city may have had more and better Jazz
than any other from about 1895 to 1917, New Orleans was by no means the
only place where the sounds were incubating. Every southern city with a
sizable black population had music that must be considered early Jazz. It
came out of St. Louis, which grew to be the center of ragtime; Memphis,
which was the birthplace of W.C. Handy (1873-1958), the famed composer and
collector of blues; Atlanta, Baltimore, and other such cities.
What was unique to New Orleans at the time was a very open and free social
atmosphere. People of different ethnic and racial backgrounds could establish
contact, and out of this easy communication came a rich musical tradition
involving French, Spanish, German, Irish and African elements. It was no
wonder that this cosmopolitan and lively city was a fertile breeding ground for
Jazz.
If New Orleans was the birthplace of Jazz in truth as well as in legend, the
tale that the music was born in its red light district is purest nonsense. New
Orleans did have legalized prostitution and featured some of the most
elaborate and elegant "sporting houses" in the nation. But the music, if any,
that was heard in these establishments was made by solo pianists.
Actually, Jazz was first heard in quite different settings. New Orleans was
noted for its many social and fraternal organizations, most of which sponsored
or hired bands for a variety of occasions -- indoor and outdoor dances, picnics,
store openings, birthday or anniversary parties. And, of course, Jazz was the
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The players in these early bands were mostly artisans (carpenters, bricklayers,
tailors, etc.) or laborers who took time out on weekends and holidays to make
music along with a little extra cash.
The first famous New Orleans musician, and the archetypal jazzman, was
Buddy Bolden (1877-1931). A barber by trade, he played cornet and began to
lead a band in the late 1890's. Quite probably, he was the first to mix the
basic, rough blues with more conventional band music. It was a significant
step in the evolution of Jazz.
Bolden suffered a seizure during a 1907 Mardi Gras parade and spent the rest
of his life in an institution for the incurably insane. Rumor that he made
records have never been substantiated, and all we know of his music comes
from the recollection of other musicians who heard him when they were
young.
Bunk Johnson (1989- 1949), who played second cornet in one of Bolden's last
bands, contributed greatly to the revival of interest in classic New Orleans
jazz that took place during the last decade of his life. A great storyteller and
colorful personality, Johnson is responsible for much of the New Orleans
legend. But much of what he had to say was more fantasy than fact.
Many people, including serious fans, believe that the early jazz musicians
were self-taught geniuses who didn't read music and never took a formal
lesson. A romantic notion, but entirely untrue. Almost every major figure in
early jazz had at least a solid grasp of legitimate musical fundamentals, and
often much more.
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By the early years of the second decade, the instrumentation of the typical
Jazz band had become cornet (or trumpet), trombone, clarinet, guitar, string
bass and drums. (Piano rarely made it since most jobs were on location and
pianos were hard to transport.) The banjo and tuba, so closely identified now
with early Jazz, actually came in a few years later because early recording
techniques couldn't pick up the softer guitar and string bass sounds.
The cornet played the lead, the trombone filled out the bass harmony part in
a sliding style, and the clarinet embellished between these two brass poles.
The first real jazz improvisers were the clarinetists, among them Sidney
Bechet (1897-1959). An accomplished musician before he was 10, Bechet
moved from clarinet to playing mainly soprano saxophone. He was to become
one of the most famous early jazzmen abroad, visiting England and France in
1919 and Moscow in 1927.
Most veteran jazz musicians state that their music had no specific name at
first, other than ragtime or syncopated sounds. The first band to use the term
Jazz was that of trombonist Tom Brown, a white New Orleanian who
introduced it in Chicago in 1915. The origin of the word is cloudy and its
initial meaning has been the subject of much debate.
The band that made the word stick was also white and also from New Orleans,
the Original Dixieland Jass Band. This group had a huge success in New York in
1917-18 and was the first more or less authentic Jazz band to make records.
Most of its members were graduates of the bands of Papa Jack Laine (1873-
1966), a drummer who organized his first band in 1888 and is thought to have
been the first white Jazz musician. In any case, there was much musical
integration in New Orleans, and a number of light skinned Afro-Americans
"passed" in white bands.
By 1917, many key Jazz players, white and black, had left New Orleans and
other southern cities to come north. The reason was not the notorious 1917
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King Oliver moved to Chicago in 1918. As his replacement in the best band in
his hometown, he recommended an 18-year-old, Louis Armstrong. Little Louis,
as his elders called him, had been born on August 4, 1901, in poverty that was
extreme even for New Orleans' black population. His earliest musical activity
was singing in the streets for pennies with a boy's quartet he had organized.
Later he sold coal and worked on the levee.
Louis received his first musical instruction at reform school, where he spent
eighteen months for shooting off an old pistol loaded with blanks on the
street on New Year's Eve of 1913. He came out with enough musical savvy to
take jobs with various bands in town. The first established musician to sense
the youngster's great talent was King Oliver, who tutored Louis and became
his idol.
When Oliver sent for Louis to join him in Chicago, that city had become the
world's new Jazz center. Even though New York was where the Original
Dixieland Jass Band had scored its big success, followed by the spawning of the
first dance craze associated with the music, the New York bands seemed to
take on the vaudeville aspects of the ODJB's style without grasping the real
nature of the music. Theirs was an imitation Dixieland (of which Ted Lewis
was the first and most successful practitioner), but there were few southern
musicians in New York to lend the music a New Orleans authenticity.
Chicago, on the other hand, was teeming with New Orleans musicmakers, and
the city's nightlife was booming in the wake of prohibition. By all odds, the
best band in town was Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, especially after Louis joined
in late 1922. The band represented the final great flowering of classic New
Orleans ensemble style and was also the harbinger of something new. Aside
from the two cornetists, its stars were the Dodds Brothers, clarinetists Johnny
(1892-1940) and drummer Baby (1898-1959). Baby Dodds brought a new level
of rhythmic subtlety and drive to jazz drumming. Along with another New
Orleans-bred musician, Zutty Singleton (1897-1975), he introduced the concept
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The Creole Jazz Band began to record in 1923 and while not the first black
New Orleans band to make records, it was the best. The records were quite
widely distributed and the band's impact on musicians was great. Two years
earlier, trombonist Kid Ory (1886-1973) and his Sunshine Orchestra captured
the honor of being the first recorded artists in this category. However, they
recorded for an obscure California company which soon went out of business
and their records were heard by very few.
Also in 1923, the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, a white group active in Chicago,
began to make records. This was a much more sophisticated group than the
old Dixieland Jass Band, and on one of its recording dates, it used the great
New Orleans pianist-composer Ferdinand (Jelly Roll) Morton (1890-1941). The
same year, Jelly Roll also made his own initial records.
Morton, whose fabulous series of 1938 recordings for the Library of Congress
are a goldmine of information about early Jazz, was a complex man. Vain,
ambitious, and given to exaggeration, he was a pool shark, hustler and
gambler a well as a brilliant pianist and composer. His greatest talent,
perhaps was for organizing and arranging. The series of records he made with
his Red Hot Peppers between 1926 and 1928 stands, alongside Oliver's as the
crowning glory of the New Orleans tradition and one of the great
achievements in Jazz.
That tradition, however, was too restricting for a creative genius like Louis
Armstrong. He left Oliver in late 1924, accepting an offer from New York's
most prestigious black bandleader, Fletcher Henderson (1897-1952).
Henderson's band played at Roseland Ballroom on Broadway and was the first
significant big band in Jazz history.
Evolved from the standard dance band of the era, the first big Jazz bands
consisted of three trumpets, one trombone, three saxophones (doubling all
kinds of reed instruments), and rhythm section of piano, banjo, bass (string or
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Though it was the best of the day, Henderson's band lacked rhythmic
smoothness and flexibility when Louis joined up. The flow and grace of his
short solos on records with the band make them stand out like diamonds in a
tin setting.
The elements of Louis' style, already then in perfect balance, included a sound
that was the most musical and appealing yet heard from a trumpet; a gift for
melodic invention that was as logical as it was new and startling, and a
rhythmic poise (jazzmen called it "time") that made other players sound stiff
and clumsy in comparison.
While in New York, Louis also made records with Sidney Bechet, and with
Bessie Smith (1894-1937), the greatest of all blues singers. In 1925, he
returned to Chicago and began to make records under his own name with a
small group, the Hot Five. Included were his wife Lil Hardin Armstrong (1899-
1971) on piano, Kid Ory, Johnny Dodds, and guitarist Johnny St. Cyr. The
records, first to feature Louis extensively, became a sensation among
musicians, first all over the United States and later all over the world. The
dissemination of jazz, and in a very real sense its whole development, would
have been impossible without the phonograph.
KING LOUIS
The Hot Five was strictly a recording band. For everyday work, Louis played in
a variety of situations, including theater pit bands. He continued to grow and
develop, and in 1927 switched from cornet to the more brilliant trumpet. He
had occasionally featured his unique gravel voiced singing, but only as a
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It was during his last year in Chicago while working with another pianist, Earl
(Fatha) Hines (1903-1983), that Louis reached his first artistic peak. Hines was
the first real peer to work with Louis. Inspired by him, he was in turn able to
inspire. Some of the true masterpieces of Jazz, among them West End Blues
and the duet Weatherbird, resulted from the Armstrong-Hines union.
Louis Armstrong dominated the musical landscape of the 20's and, in fact,
shaped the Jazz language of the decade to come as well. But the Jazz of the
Jazz Age was more often than not just peppy dance music made by young men
playing their banjos and saxophones who had little understanding of (or
interest in) what the blues and/or Louis Armstrong were about. Still, a
surprising amount of music produced by this dance-happy period contained
genuine Jazz elements.
The most popular bandleader of the decade was Paul Whiteman (1890-1967),
who ironically became known as the King of Jazz, although his first successful
bands played no Jazz at all and his later ones precious little. These later
bands, however, did play superb dance music, expertly scored and performed
by the best white musicians the extravagant Whiteman paychecks could
attract. From 1926 on, Whiteman gave occasional solo spots to such Jazz-
influenced players as cornetist Red Nichols, violinist Joe Venuti, guitarist
Eddie Lang (1904-1933), and the Dorsey Brothers' trombonist-trumpeter
Tommy (1905-1956) and clarinetist-saxophonist Jimmy (1904-1957), all of
whom later became bandleaders in their own right.
In 1927, Whiteman took over the key personnel of Jean Goldkette's Jazz-
oriented band, which included a young cornetist and sometime pianist and
composer of rare talent, Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931). Bix's very lyrical,
personal music and early death combined to make him the first (and most
durable) jazz legend. His romanticized life story became the inspiration for a
novel and a film, neither of them close to the truth.
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Bix's bittersweet lyricism influenced many aspiring jazzmen, among them the
so-called Austin High Gang, made up of gifted Chicago youngsters only a few
of whom ever actually attended Austin High School. Among them were such
later sparkplugs of the Swing Era as drummers Gene Krupa (1909-1973) and
Dave Tough (1908-1948); clarinetist Frank Teschemacher (1905-1932);
saxophonist Bud Freeman (1906-1991); pianists Joe Sullivan (1906-1971) and
Jess Stacy (b. 1904); and guitarist-entrepreneur Eddie Condon (1905-1973).
Their contemporaries and occasional comrades-in-arms included a clarinet
prodigy named Benny Goodman (1905-1986); and somewhat older reedman and
character, Mezz Mezzrow (1899-1972), whose 1946 autobiography, Really the
Blues, remains, despite inaccuracies, one of the best Jazz books.
A great influence on young Goodman was the New Orleans clarinetist Jimmie
Noone (1995-1944), an exceptional technician with a beautiful tone. Chicago
was an inspiring environment for a young musician. There was plenty of music
and there were plenty of masters to learn from. Cornetist Muggsy Spanier
(1906-1967) took his early cues from King Oliver. In New York, there was less
contact between black and white players, though white jazzmen often made
the trek to Harlem or worked opposite Fletcher Henderson at the Roseland.
When a young Texas trombonist, Jack Teagarden (1905-1964), came to town in
1928, he startled everyone with his blues-based playing (and singing), very
close in concept to that of Henderson's trombone star, Jimmy Harrison (1900-
1931). These two set the pace for all comers.
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Another artist whose career spanned more than fifty years is Duke Ellington
(1899-1974). By 1972, he was one of New York's most successful bandleaders,
resident at Harlem's Cotton Club--a nightspot catering to whites only but
featuring the best in black talent.
Great musicians passed through the Ellington ranks between 1924 and 1974.
Among the standouts: great baritone saxist Harry Carney (1907-1974), who
joined in 1927; Johnny Hodges (1906-1970), whose alto sax sound was one of
the glories of jazz; Joe (Tricky Sam) Nanton (1904-1946), master of the
"talking" trombone; Barney Bigard (1906-1980); whose pure-toned clarinet
brought a touch of New Orleans to the band; Ben Webster (1909-1973), one of
Coleman Hawkins' greatest disciples; drummer Sonny Greer (1903-1982), and
Rex Stewart (1907-1967) and Cootie Williams (1910-1985), an incomparable
trumpet team. Among the later stars were trumpeter Clark Terry (b. 1920)
and tenor saxist Paul Gonsalves (1920-1974).
Ellington's music constitutes a world within the world of Jazz. One of the
century's outstanding composers, he wrote over 1,000 short pieces, plus many
suites, music for films, the theater and television, religious works and more.
He must be ranked one of the century's foremost musicians, regardless of
labels. His uninterrupted activity as a bandleader since 1924 has earned him a
high place in each successive decade, and his achievement is a history of Jazz
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Aside from the band, for which he wrote with such splendid skill, Ellington's
instrument was the piano. When he came to New York as a young man, his
idols were James P. Johnson (1894-1955), a brilliant instrumentalist and gifted
composer, and Johnson's closest rival, Willie (The Lion) Smith (1898-1973).
Both were masters of the "stride" school of Jazz piano, marked by an
exceptionally strong, pumping line in the left hand. James P.'s prize student
was Fats Waller. New York pianists often met in friendly but fierce contests--
the beginnings of what would later be known as jam sessions.
In Chicago, a very different piano style came into the picture in the late `20s,
dubbed boogie-woogie after the most famous composition by its first
significant exponent, Pinetop Smith (1904-1929). This rolling, eight-to-the-bar
bass style was popular at house parties in the Windy City and became a
national craze in 1939, after three of its best practitioners, Albert Ammons,
Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis, had been presented in concert at Carnegie
Hall.
Johnson was from Kansas City, where boogie-woogie was also popular. The
midwestern center was a haven for Jazz musicians through-out the rule of
Boss Pendergast, when the city was wide open and music could be heard
around the clock.
The earliest and one of the best of the K.C. bands was led by Bennie Moten
(1894-1935). By 1930 it had in its ranks pianist Count Basie (1905-1984) who'd
learned from Fats Waller; trumpeter-singer Oran (Hot Lips) Page (1908-1954),
one of Louis Armstrong's greatest disciples; and an outstanding singer, Jimmy
Rushing (1903-1972). The city was to put its imprint on Jazz during the `30s
and early `40s.
DEPRESSION DAYS
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But the music survived. Again, Louis Armstrong set a pattern. At the helm of a
big band with his increasingly popular singing as a feature, he recast the pop
hits of the day in his unique Jazz mold, as such artists as Fats Waller and Billie
Holiday (1915-1959), perhaps the most gifted of female Jazz singers would do
a few years later.
Thus, while sentimental music and romantic "crooners" were the rage (among
them Bing Crosby who had worked with Paul Whiteman and learned more than
a little from Jazz), a new kind of "hot" dance music began to take hold. It
wasn't really new, but rather a streamlining of the Henderson style,
introduced by the Casa Loma Orchestra which featured the arrangements of
Georgia-born guitarist Gene Gifford (1908-1970). Almost forgotten today, this
band paved the way for the Swing Era.
As we've seen, big bands were a feature of the Jazz landscape from the first.
Though the Swing Era didn't come into full flower until 1935, most up-and-
coming young jazzmen from 1930 found themselves working in big bands.
Among these were two pacesetters of the decade, trumpeter Roy (Little Jazz)
Eldridge (1911-1989) and tenorist Leon (Chu) Berry (1908-1941). Eldridge, the
most influential trumpeter after Louis, has a fiery mercurial style and great
range and swing. Among the bands he sparked were Fletcher Henderson's and
Teddy Hill's. The latter group also included Berry, the most gifted follower of
Coleman Hawkins, and the brilliant trombonist Dicky Wells (1909-1985).
Another trend setting band was that of tiny, hunchbacked drummer Chick
Webb (1909-1939), who by dint of almost superhuman energy overcame his
physical handicap and made himself into perhaps the greatest of all Jazz
drummers. His band really got under way when he heard and hired a young
girl singer in 1935. Her name was Ella Fitzgerald (b. 1917).
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It seems that the band's broadcasts had been especially well timed for
California listeners. Whatever the reason, the band, which included such Jazz
stars as the marvelous trumpeter Bunny Berigan (1908-1942) and drummer
Gene Krupa, not to mention Benny himself, now scored success after success.
Some of the band's best material was contributed by arrangers Fletcher
Henderson and his gifted younger brother Horace.
As the bands grew in popularity, a new breed of fan began to appear. This fan
wanted to listen as much as he wanted to dance. (In fact, some disdained
dancing altogether.) He knew each man in each band and read the new swing
magazines that were springing up--Metronome, Down Beat, Orchestra World.
He collected records and listened to the growing number of band broadcasts
on radio. Band leaders were becoming national figures on a scale with
Hollywood stars.
Benny's arch rival in the popularity sweepstakes was fellow clarinetist Artie
Shaw (b.1910), who was an on-again-off-again leader. Other very successful
bands included those of Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey, whose co-led
Dorsey Brothers Band split up after one of their celebrated fights.
First among black bandleaders were Duke Ellington and Jimmie Lunceford
(1902-1947). The latter led a highly disciplined and showmanship-oriented
band which nevertheless spotlighted brilliant jazz soloists, among them
saxophonists Willie Smith and Joe Thomas and trombonist Trummy Young
(1912-1984). The man who set the band's style, trumpeter-arranger Sy Oliver
(1910-1988), later went with Tommy Dorsey.
A newcomer on the national scene was Count Basie's crew from Kansas City,
with key soloists Lester Young and Herschel Evans (1909-1939) on tenors, Buck
Clayton (1912-1992) and Harry Edison (b.1915) on trumpets, and Jimmy
Rushing and Billie Holiday (later Helen Humes) on vocals.
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The Basie band was brought east through the efforts of John Hammond, a
young Jazz enthusiast who had discovered Billie Holiday and boogie woogie
music and who also happened to be Benny Goodman's brother-in-law. It was
Hammond who persuaded Benny to form a trio composed of himself, black
pianist Teddy Wilson (1912-1986), and drummer Gene Krupa.
Not long after the Goodman Trio was launched, it became a quartet with the
addition of vibraphonist (and sometime, drummer and pianist) Lionel Hampton
(b.1909), a veritable dynamo of musical wit and energy. It was the first
interracial group to perform regularly in public. Both Hampton and Wilson
later formed big bands of their own with Benny's help and blessing. Hampton's
was a long-lived venture (Editor's note: in his late 80s, Hampton still performs
with a big band). Other Goodman sidemen who launched successful
bandleading careers were Gene Krupa and trumpeter Harry James (1916-
1983). The James band became the most successful of the `40s.
Other great swing bands included Andy Kirk's, with pianist-arranger Mary Lou
Williams (1910-1981) as the guiding spirit; Earl Hines'; Cab Calloway's with Chu
Berry and a young trumpeter named Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993); trumpeter
Erskine Hawkins'; tenorist Charlie Barnet's; trombonist Glenn Miller's, and the
Mills Blue Rhythm Band with New Orleans trumpeter Henry (Red) Allen (1907-
1967) and trombonist J.C. Higginbotham (1906-1973) as key soloists.
A big band that didn't hit the big time until the mid-40's but had been around
since 1936 was one led by clarinetist-singer Woody Herman (1913-1987). A
unique unit was "the biggest little band in the land," a sextet led by bassist
John Kirby (1908-1952) featuring the superb arrangements and trumpeting of
Charlie Shavers (1915-1971).
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ART TATUM
Other unique musical figures of the `30s were violinist Stuff Smith (1909-
1967), one of the first to play an electrically amplified instrument, and
guitarist Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) a Belgian-born gypsy who was the first
non-American jazzman of significance. (Among those who did missionary work
in Europe in the `30s were Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter; the number of
U.S. jazzmen living abroad increased greatly after the second World War.)
The war years took a heavy toll of big bands. Restrictions made travel more
difficult and the best talent was being siphoned off by the draft. But more
importantly, public tastes were changing.
Ironically, the bands were in the end devoured by a monster they had given
birth to: the singers. Typified by Tommy Dorsey's Frank Sinatra, the vocalist,
made popular by a band affiliation, went out on his own; and the public
seemed to want romantic ballads more than swinging dance music.
The big bands that survived the war soon found another form of competition
cutting into their following--television. The tube kept people home more and
more, and inevitably many ballrooms shut their doors for good in the years
between 1947 and 1955. By then it had also become too expensive a
proposition to keep 16 men traveling on the road in the big bands' itinerant
tradition. The leaders who didn't give up (Ellington, Basie, Woody Herman,
Harry James) had something special in the way of talent and dedication that
gave them durability in spite of changing tastes and lifestyles.
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BIRD
Bird, as Parker was called by his fans, was a fantastic improviser whose
imagination was matched by his technique. His way of playing (though
influenced by Lester Young and guitarist Charlie Christian (1916-1942), a
remarkable musician who was featured with Benny Goodman's sextet between
1939-41), was something new in the world of Jazz. His influence on musicians
can be compared in scope only to that of Louis Armstrong.
Bop, of course, was basically small-group music, meant for listening, not
dancing. Still, there were big bands featuring bop--among them those led by
Dizzy Gillespie, who had several good crews in the late `40s and early to mid-
50's; and Woody Herman's so-called Second Herd, which included the cream of
white bop--trumpeter Red Rodney (b. 1927), and saxophonists Stan Getz
(1927-1993), Al Cohn (1925-1988) and Zoot Sims (1925-1985), and Serge
Chaloff (1923-1957).
In any case, a new style, not necessarily inimical to the big bands yet very
different in spirit form earlier Jazz modes, had sprung up during the war.
Bebop, as it came to be called, was initially a musician's music, born in the
experimentation of informal jam sessions.
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After apprenticeship with big bands (including Earl Hines'), Parker settled in
New York. From 1944 on, he began to attract attention on Manhattan's 52nd
Street, a midtown block known as "Swing Street" which featured a
concentration of Jazz clubs and Jazz talent not equaled before or since.
Parker's greatest disciples were not alto saxophonists, except for Sonny Stitt.
Parker dominated on that instrument. Pianist Bud Powell (1924-1966)
translated Bird's mode to the keyboard; drummers Max Roach and Art Blakey
(1919-1990) adapted it to the percussion instruments. A unique figure was
pianist-composer Thelonious Monk, (1917-1982). With roots in the stride piano
tradition, Monk was a forerunner of bop--in it but not of it.
AFTER PARKER
When Parker died in 1955, the bop era had almost ended, though his influence
was still vividly felt. So-called cool Jazz, spearheaded by a Miles Davis record
date involving such important players as Roach, trombonist J.J. Johnson
(b.1924), pianist-composer John Lewis (b.1920), baritone saxist-arranger Gerry
Mulligan (b.1927), and alto saxophonist Lee Konitz (b. 1927) came into being.
Featured were arrangements by Mulligan, Lewis and the very gifted Gil Evans
(1912-1988). The proponents of cool Jazz (a musical label which, like most
others, wasn't very accurate or useful) included Stan Getz, Mulligan (notably
his quartet with trumpeter Chet Baker [1929-1988]), and John Lewis' very
successful and long-lived Modern Jazz Quartet with Milt Jackson (b. 1923) on
vibraphone. These musicians have in common a strong feeling for melodic
improvisation and a rather gentle tonal palette.
Even vaguer than cool was the once-popular designation West Coast, applied
to Jazz emanating from California. Much more significant and stylistically
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Rollins, who developed into one of the most interesting and imaginative
improvisers in jazz, also worked with Miles Davis. But a more regular member
of the trumpeter's group was John Coltrane (1926-1967), a tenor and soprano
saxophonist who was probably the most influential post-Parker musician aside
from Davis himself.
MODAL JAZZ
The Davis group of 1958 with Coltrane altoist Cannonball Adderley (1928-
1975), and pianist Bill Evans (1929-1980), introduced the concept of scalar
improvisation (based on scales and modes rather than chords). It extended
further by Coltrane's own quartet with drummer Elvin Jones (b. 1929) and
pianist McCoy Tyner (b. 1938). Davis himself has moved in other directions.
After featuring some of the most gifted young jazzmen of the `60s, among
them tenorist Wayne Shorter (b. 1933), pianist Herbie Hancock (b. 1940), and
drummer Tony Williams (b. 1945), he began to amplify his trumpet electrically
and lead percussive group blending free improvisation with rock rhythms.
A unique musician with roots in Parker, Ellington and Tatum is Charlie Mingus
(1920-1979), bassist and composer and creator of an impressive body of music.
Among his associates have been pianist Jaki Byard (b. 1922), altoist Charles
McPherson (b. 1939), and tenorist Booker Ervin (1930-1970).
JAZZ-ROCK FUSION
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The most successful fusion band was Weather Report, co-founded in 1970 by
the Austrian-born pianist Joe Zawinul (b. 1932) and Wayne Shorter; the
partnership lasted until 1986. The commercial orientation of much fusion Jazz
offers little incentive to creative players, but it has served to introduce new
young listeners to Jazz, and electronic instruments have been absorbed into
the Jazz mainstream.
JAZZ TODAY
Diversity is the word for today's Jazz. Various aspects of freedom have been
pursued by the many gifted musicians connected with the AACM (American
Association for Creative Musicians), a collective formed in 1965 under the
guidance of the pianist-composer Richard Muhal Abrams (b. 1930). Among the
groups that have emerged, directly and indirectly, from the AACM are the Art
Ensemble of Chicago and The World Saxophone Quartet, and notable musicians
of this lineage include trumpeter Lester Bowie (b. 1941), reedmen Anthony
Braxton (b.1945), Joseph Jarman, Julius Hemphill, Roscoe Mitchell and David
Murray, and violinist Leroy Jenkins, Ornette Coleman has continued to go his
own way, introducing a unique fusion band, Prime Time, collaborating with
guitarist Pat Metheny (b. 1954), and celebrating occasional reunions with his
original quartet.
Quite unexpectedly, but with neat historical symmetry, a new wave of gifted
young jazz players has emerged from New Orleans, spearheaded by the
brilliant trumpeter Wynton Marsalis (b. 1961), who joined Art Blakey's Jazz
Messengers--a bastion of the bebop tradition--in 1979. Also an accomplished
classical virtuoso, Marsalis was soon signed by Columbia Records and became
the most visible new Jazz artist in many years. Articulate and outspoken, he
has rejected fusion and stressed the continuity of the Jazz tradition. His
slightly older brother, Branford Marsalis (b. 1960), who plays tenor and
soprano sax, was a member of Wynton's quintet until he joined with rock icon
Sting's band for a year. He has since led his own straight-ahead jazz quartet.
As his replacement with Blakey, Wynton recommended fellow New Orleanian
Terence Blanchard (b. 1962), who later formed a group with altoist Donald
Harrison also from New Orleans, as co-leader.
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The durability of the Jazz tradition has been symbolically affirmed by two
events: the Academy Award nomination of Dexter Gordon, the seminal bebop
tenor saxophonist, for his leading role in the film Round Midnight, and the
widely acclaimed appearances of Benny Carter, approaching his 90th birthday,
at the helm of the American Jazz Orchestra (an ensemble formed in 1986 to
perform the best in Jazz, past and present) both as a player and composer.
And one may also take heart at the qualitative as well as quantitative growth
of Jazz education in this country, and the active involvement of so many fine
performing artist in this process.
SUMMING UP
No one can presume to guess what form the next development in Jazz will
take. What we do know is that the music today presents a rich panorama of
sounds and styles.
Thelonious Monk, that uncompromising original who went from the obscurity
of the pre-bop jam sessions in Harlem to the cover of TIME and worldwide
acclaim without ever diluting his music, once defined jazz in his unique way:
"Jazz and freedom," Monk said, "go hand in hand. That explains it. There isn't
anymore to add to it. If I do add to it, it gets complicated. That's something
for you to think about. You think about it and dig it. You dig it."
Jazz, a music born in slavery, has become the universal song of freedom.
Think about that...and dig it”.
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The early films were silent pictures as recorded sound was not as yet developed in films.
Subtitles were displayed to replace human voice, although the actors did dramatize the
words displayed, and either a piano or a type of an organ known as the Wurlitzer was
performed during the showing of the film, playing anything from classical, light music of
the time, rag time and jazz.
When films had sound added then composers were commissioned to compose music for
their films, known as soundtracks, for the films that were being made. Some of these
soundtracks form part of the pieces performed by symphony orchestras on an on going
basis.
Franz Waxmann (Rebecca Vaughn Williams (Captain Scott), Rudolf Steiner, Nino Rota,
Eric Wolfgang Korngold, Morricone, Jarre, and many others, for movies especially
feature firms such as Dr ZivaZZhivagon Hur, Ten Commandments with Charleston, to
name but a few.
Even operas, operettas, and musicals have been put onto film, and even some musicals
have been especially written for films as opposed to stage production, such as The
Wizard of Oz, The King and I, and the musicals such as Jerome Kern's Showboat,
Rodgers and Hammerstein productions of The Sound of Music and South Pacific,
Learner and Loewe in My Fair Lady, Brigadoon and Camelot, name but a few, then what
about Grease and Saturday Night Fever staring John Travolta, Andrew Lloyd Webber in
The Phantom of the Opera, Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, Jesus
Christ Super Star, and other musicals such as Oliver and Annie. Then what about
Oklahoma, Chi tty Chi tty Bang Bang, Meet me in St. Louis, Kismet (based on the music
of Borodin), Victor Victoria and others. Hans Zimmer for instance composed the film
music the the film “Thunderbirds” and that film was marketed for juveniles (children).
Now to the subject of opera, a group of men including the father of Galileo (Galilei) who
was a singer and lutenist, met at the Medici house hold in Florence to discuss the notion
of having a singing drama, since it was the Ancient Greeks, who discovered that drama
goes further if it was sung.
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The greatest of operatic composers was according to Mann, W supra, was Claudio
Monteverdi who composed the opera Le Orpheo, which is also performed today.
It must be noted that opera had it's beginnings in Florence and then subsequent
performances were to be held in Venice.
It is interesting that Mann regards the daughter of the singer / composer Guilio Caccini,
by the name of Francesca to be the first woman composer, which just goes to show that
different sources mention different things, and makes accuracy quite a difficult exercise
indeed.
Opera is generally at the time was always sung in Italian until composers like Gluck and
Mozart decided that it was time to compose operas in the vernacular such as in German
for such operas as the Magic Flute, whilst in England, John Gay composed the Beggar's
Opera which was sung in English and was the first musical ever to be composed in c.
1728, and it is according to Richard Fawkes, the History of the Musicals, Naxos, that the
Beggar's Opera was the first ever musical to be composed.
Opera is generally divided into opera seria or opera buffo, but there can be a combination
of the two, such as in the Little Cunning Vixen by Leos Janecheck, where a fox (vixen)
get's up to mischief and is eventually shot by a drunken hunter.
Operettas and musicals also comes to mind, and these also includes spoken dialogue as
well, not just singing,
There have also been different schools of opera, not to mention different styles of opera
as well. Ranging from, baroque, classical, romantic, late romantic and modern 20th
Century styles, however with Rugierro Leoncavallo and Giocommo Puccini and some
others, the verismo (meaning truth) school of opera was formed. Examples of verismo
operas are Caveliara Rusticana by Mascagne and Ill Pagliacci by Leoncavallo.
The musicals have themselves proved to more popular then what the operas have been
running in hundreds of performances.
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There has been according to the Wikipedia article on the “History of Classical Music
Traditions” 7th October 2009, there has been the following musical eras, namely,
• Prehistoric
• Ancient (before AD 500)
• Early (500 to 1760)
• Common Practice (1600 to 1900)
• Modern and Comtempory (1900 to present)
A composer is the creative musical artist, who expresses himself through the medium of
music, invented, constructed and written down by the composer.
The following infra are the time lines of music, which are set out infra, namely,
• Pope Gregory in about 597 AD instructed his musicians (mainly monks) to put
down his plain songs onto script, which are known as Gregorian Chants, whilst at
the same time, Pope Gregory sends St. Augustine to Enland to convert the English
to the Christianity, namely to the Roman Catholic Church.
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• From the Gregorian chant we migrate to the Plain Song and the Ambrosian Chant,
the Dorian, Phrygian and Lydian Modes.
• Hildegard of Bingen was also highly learned on scientific and theological matters,
and founded her very own convent. It must be remembered that there was a time
when women not to be seen or heard, or be seen and not heard, and it is fitting to
note that although unfortunately the majority of composers are men, that it was a
woman who composed the very first pieces of classical music. It must also be
remembered for the sake of confusing the reader that both the Gregorian and
Ambrosian Chants still form part of the classical music scene, still to this day, and
even as a matter of interest some pop music say the Beetles music has been
transcribed into Gregorian Chants and the same may be said of some comedy type
music as well.
• We now move to the Gothic Age, with music such as Presul nostril temporis
composed by Pérotin (Perotinus Magnus) (fl. C. 1180 to 1236).
• The Motet comes into play, such as Jen e puis, which was composed by an
anonymous composer.
• We now visit the bands of musicians who perform music especially music in
public, such as the trouveres in Northern France, the troubadours in Southern
France and the minisingers in Germany, to name but a few, and no such musicians
and singers were to be found in all parts of the world. Examples of such music
would be A Virgen, que de Deus madre composed by Alfonso X, ‘El sabio’ (1221
to 1284), Saltarello No. 1 by an anonymous composer, and La Nesse de Nostre
Dame (Gloria) by Guillaume de Machaut (1300 to 1377).
• The Madricals, for example Per seguir la speranca by Francesco Landini (1325 to
1397)
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• The first Symphony was composed not by Franz Haydn but Giovanni Batista
Sammartini (c. 1693 in Milan to c. 1750 in London), was the first person to write
a symphony, although Haydn is regarded as the greatest of symphonic composers.
• Whilst the majority of operas were composed in Italian, composers like Wolfgang
Armideus Mozart, Henry Purcell and Christoph Willibald Gluck composed operas
in the language of their own countries, so that opera could be made more
excessable to mass audiences. And the first music the Beggar’s Opera by John
Gay (sung in English) (opera buffo) is another example.
• The first musical “The Beggar’s Opera” composed by John Gay (1685 to 1732),
which was composed, in 1728. Like Mozart’s Magic Flute, it was composed for
the masses, not just for the culturally elite.
• Antonio Vivaldi was one of the originators of concerti, using solo instruments
with orchestra.
• Jazz and Ragtime music started in the 19th Century and is still being composed
today even.
• Ballet scores together choreographing was composed in France for the first time
in the 16th Century, c. 1581) Ballet is genuarally dancing to music so as to create a
type of a story. Hence French terminology is used.
• In the early 19th Century and onwards, saw the development of the operetta and
also the pioneering work in music therapy by Hervé (Floremond Ronger), who
worked at an asylum, who formed an orchestra and singers from the patients
there, for which scientific papers were written in that regard. Music Therapy was
developed as a university degree course in America in c. 1943.
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• Musicals have taken off big time in the 20th Century and are as popular as ever.
• John Cage and Karl Heinz Stockhausen were originators of electronic music and
of using other sounds.
• Country and western music, rock and roll and pop music is with us as well.
• And it is interesting to note that the muisic of the Beetles has been transcribed
into baroque and classical modes.
• The list of music timelines and development goes on and on, and music is every
changing.
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Composition of music has various styles and modes and the composer has at all times
determined for who the composition is intended for.
Composers when composing need to be able to sight read the music that they compose, or
say be able to read music as well.
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The recorder (Figure 16 – 18) infra, believe it or not is in some instances and in some
schools and kindergartens as the first port of entry into the musical world, for which
children and adults can learn music. The recorder is known as the “blokfluit” in
Afrikaans.
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Composers also have to know harmony and counterpoint and know what they are
composing about.
Composing music is not only just for the concert halls, but also for the films,
documentaries and in military applications, such as in marching.
Music has numerous applications and is also a very good entertainment tool that helps to
sooth and inspires the mind of man.
One can thank Franz Schubert and composers like him for brining music making into the
homes of ordinary people.
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Musical terminology is vital in writing down and composing music, as musicians have to
know at what tempo, speed, and manner a piece of composition (work) needs to be and
how it is to be performed.
Generally Italian terms are used in music, such as allegro, adagio, andante, largo,
cadenza, celsta, presto, and to name many more, and the list goes on and on.
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There has been other groups of people who have composed music, such as negro slaves
and those free in America, as there has been caucasion musicians and composers using
Afro – American (Negro) themes in their music, and also impersonating Negros such as
in Al Jolson in the film called the Jazz Singer.
There have been people from all over the world of all racial, religious and ethnic groups
that have composed music, which makes it extremely difficult for a seasoned
musicologist to identify the nationalilty of ethnicity related that particular piece of music.
Negroes (Afro Americans, blacks, Bantu or Africans), people of mixed races and
euraisions, the Khoisan, the Amirican Red Indian and the Australian Aborigine have
particular style of music, as to Chinese and Japanese. What is interesting is that if the
musicians from these groups were Western Trained and schooled, then the music will
sound like that particular Western Country where the training was done.
Anton Rubinstein’s music sounds from a Russian perspective to be German, and Russian
by the Germans, Tchaikovsky’s music is not considered to be Russian from the “Mighty
Handful” a group of nationalist composers, represented and founded by Mily
Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837 to 1910), The music of Anton Arensky, Alexander
Glazanov, Peter Tchaikovsky, Anton Rubinstein, and Sergey Tanaiev (and his uncle of 5
years older than him), all have believe it or not have Russian Themes to their music, and
many of their pieces sound Russian as well, although not all of their music sounds
Russian.
Portugese composers such as Joao Domingos Boitempo (1775 to 1842) and Vianna de la
Motte, do not even sound Portugese either. Boitempo’s music could easily be mistaken
for that of Beethoven, and De la Motte (a pupil of Lizst, being part of the last group of
pupils), whose music sounds Romantic to Late Romantic.
The music of different countries have had nationalistic and domestic sounds pertinent to
that country or region, and a musicologist can easily identify the tunes of that particular
area.
Then we come to the Jews who are regarded by some as a kith, a race and / or a religion,
who have faced brutality at the hands of gentiles and have at times been forced to take
baptism. Some Jews took baptism out of choice and also some did so to further their
careers in the music, technical and business fields.
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For example there has been composers such as Louis Lewendowsky, Salman Sulzer
(knighted by the Austrian Monarch (Austrian Hungarian Empire), Isaack and his son
Jacques Offenbach, Mombach, some Dutch composers and in Cape Town, the English
born cantor, who is the cantor of the Cape Town Hebrew Congregations, not to mention
other composers from other parts of world who themselves have composed music for use
in the synagogues and temples.
Even Jews that were babtised composed music with Jewish themes as well.
Even non Jewish composers have composed music with Jewish themes as well, such as
an overture of Jewish Themes by Sergey Prokoviev and in the Musical Oliver there is
some element of Jewish sounding music as well.
Jewish indigenous music has been the klezmer music, which was composed in the
ghettos, and is still performed and composed, still today in a free society.
In synagogues there has been legendary cantors whose singing during the early days of
recording have been put on disc, such as Gidion Sirota and Berel Chagie.
It is interesting that in the State of Isreal and the Palestinian Authority, that the music of
the Jews and Arabs will sound very much different, like one finds in the Western Cape in
South Africa, between the different race and ethinic groups.
People of different ethnic and religious groups who live side by side as neighbours can
have music sounding very different that is pertinent to their particular ethnic grouping.
For purposes of defining who is a Jew the same classification as used by the Nazis in
Germany from 1933 to 1945 and before, is what being used, further quoted verbatim infra
is Singer’s “classification” which is as follows,
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Other composers are Rami Bar – niv, who himself composed rag time music and classical
music, a certain Tobias of Estonia, Robert Rollin (an American) in Cape Town and
Thomas Rajna who was born in Hungry and is living in South Africa, and same can be
said for Peter Klatzow who has composed ballet music for the Shakespeare Play Hamlet
and the Ballet Die Drie Diere.
There has been Music by Jewish composers that have been declared entarte (banned)
music, such as Korngold, Pavel Haas (a pupil of Leos Janacek), Hans Krasa, Viktor
Ullman, and Ernst Krenek (a gentile). Some composers were murdered in Auschwitz,
round about 1944 and 1945.
Jews have composed in all genres of music like their Christian counterparts, both secular
and religious. It must also be remembered that Jews are not a homogenous group that say
Islam might be, for that matter, even the Muslims themselves are also not homogenous
either. Jehovah’s Witnesses are the only people together with the B”hai people can claim
homogeneity, but were they to compose secular music as individuals, and then no doubt,
the music would invariably be identified with that geographical region or place.
What about the Muslims! They too have composed music which includes liturgical,
classical and pop music, and have themselves been involved in the performing arts, such
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Man has always been seeking freedom of thought and of expression, and philosophy
dates way back to ancient times, Middle Ages, the reformation and to the present time.
In Ancient Greece, one had Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, not to mention that there have
also been Roman and Chinese philosophers.
In Europe during reformation, there was Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Goethe,
Heinrich Heine, Schiller and others, and also Baruch Spinoza.
It is interesting to note that the philosopher, Jean Jacques Rousseau was also himself a
musician and composer.
Heinrich Heine said that if books were burned, then lives would be burned as well.
The book burnings in 1933 in Nazi Germany by some of the most cultured, educated and
intelligent people in the world, who also murdered (brutally) 6 000 000 Jews and over 4
000 000 Gentiles.
Music has evolved through the dawn of time and has interspersed with culture and
philosophy and there has been cross culturing as well, not withstanding the different
genres of music, not to mention music accompanying the poetry of some of the greatest
philosophers such as Goethe, Schiller and Heine, and that of other poets as well.
What about ballets by composers on Shakespearean Themes, such as Romeo and Juliet
by Sergey Prokofiev, Hamlet by Dimity Shostokowitz in Russia and Peter Klatzou in
South Africa, to name but a few.
Operas such as Falstaff, Macbeth and Othello by Giuseppe Verdi, also based on
Shakespearian themes.
Then there is by the very nature of mankind to be prejudiced against other nationalities,
religious minorities, gender such as females, sexual orientation, and political orientation,
the so called “entarte music” comes to mind. What about dictators like Adolph Hitler and
Josef Stalin telling performers and composers what they may do and compose, and also
the banning of composers whose music is contrary to their policies and / or ideology, and
wanting to put such composers and performers into labor and concentration camps,
torture and murder these people as well and ban their music. It may be of interest that
Viktor Ullmann who was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944, who composed the opera “Der
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As a consequent of the wearing of the “Yellow Star of David” by Jews on the instructions
of the German (Nazi) authorities and the persecution, starvation, torture and deliberate
murder of well over 6 000 000 Jews by the Germans and some of her allies, the chief
executive officer (a Jewess who survived the Holocaust) who was in charge of Deutche
Grammophon, insisted that that Yellow Color be displayed on the logo of that record
company’s album cover.
Composers such as Rachmaniov have been cricised for the music they have composed,
such as the first symphony by composed by Rachmaniov, which was conducted by
Alexander Glazunov who was drunk at the time. Caesar Cui a member of Balakiev’s
Mighty Handful of Russian Nationalist composers said that if there was ever a symphony
composed in hell, and then it was the first symphony of Rachmaniov.
Rachmaniov destroyed the manuscript that he had in his possession, and instructed no
one to ever play this symphony ever again. Luckily it survived and from scores
reconstructed and is played today and recordings can be purchased as well.
Rachmaniov saw a Dr. Dahl, who used hypnosis on Rachmaniov, managed to get
Rachmaniov to compose again, in that Rachmaniov’s 2nd piano concerto was a great
master piece of music ever to be composed and is the popular of all Rachmaniov’s work.
Alexander Scriabin a pupil of Anton Arensky, for which in the opinion of Arensky would
never amount to much and has proved that his music was more popular than that of
Arensky.
Alexander Scriabin and Sergey Rachmaniov were pupils of Nikolai Zverev, who was a
strict disciplinarian where as far as piano playing was concerned, who also had Sunday
sessions, where no playing or performing was done and he got his pupils to engage in
conversation with the leading composers of the time, and also attend performances at
concerts and theatres so as to see how productions were done.
It is interesting that Scriabin was interested in philosophy and in the works of Madame
Blavatsky and this was to have an influence on his music, where Scriabin tired to display
color to his music.
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There is a critical and essential need to encourage freedom of creativity and of expression
provided it does not compromise, cultures, beliefs, groups or individuals.
An example of this comes is a Czech composer by the name of Bohuslav Martinu (1890 –
1959) who was expelled from a Czech music conservatory because he refused to comply
with there musical methods in c. 1912. Martinu studied old manuscripts and adapted his
music accordingly which was in contrary to the musical styles of the day and in terms of
the compliance requirements of that particular conservatory. Martinu’s music is very
much part of the classical music repertoire, but never get’s heard often enough. It is
interesting that Martinu went to Paris to study with Albert Roussel, (who himself
composed symphonies and other pieces later in life), and left Paris for America, the
moment the Germans where invading France in World War Two, Martinu composed his
first symphony in 1942 in America.
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Not all music is good, there is some that contributes to a dysfunctional society, and can
result in hearing loss.
I have now finally come to the end of this dissertation, and presented the research from a
macro perspective, and have not dwelled in the area of the well known composers such as
Bach, Handel, Beethoven, etc. as there are many books and literature available on these
composers and their music is freely available.
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In putting together this dissertation (Thesis), I have drawn much of my research from the
Internet, from talking to associates, and consulting the following sources, both hard copy
and digital PDF copies.
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• Singer, Fay (a respected and learned musicologist in Cape Town @ UCT),
Research paper which is a commentary on Lyman, D, “Great Jews in Music”,
1986
• Salersky, Gidal, “Music of a Wandering Race”, somewhere before World War
Two, US Publication
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