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Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome)
Adams, Diana
Adderley, Cannonball
Adorno, T. W.
African American culture/music; “black is beautiful,” and Christianity; and civil rights movement, and Great Migration, and harmony, and history, and melody, and Middle Passage, and religious music, and rhythm, and social distinctions, and tone colors, and Underground Railroad,
See also
race relations;
names of individual African Americans
African/West African music: African diaspora, and clave, Ewe music, and handbell, Husago dance, and melody, and rhythm, in
Such Sweet Thunder
, and tone colors, and xylophone
Afro-Cuban music
airplanes
Ajemian, Anahid
“Alexander's Ragtime Band,”
Allen, Frederick Lewis
“All Things Considered” (NPR program)
American Popular
Song (Wilder)
American Shakespeare Festival (Stratford, Conn.)
Amsterdam Star-News
Andersen, Hans Christian
Anderson, Cat
Anderson, Eddie “Rochester,”
Anderson, Elaine
Anderson, Ivie
Anderson, Marian
Andrews Sisters
Ansermet, Ernest
Antheil, George,
Ballet mécanique
,
Jazz Symphony
anticommunism
Antony and Cleopatra
(Shakespeare)
Appel, Alfred Jr.
Applebaum, Louis
“Aquashow” (Flushing Meadow Park)
Aragon, Louis
A Rebours
(Huysmans)
Arlen, Harold, “I Got a Right to Sing the Blues,” “The Man That Got Away,”
The Wizard of Oz
Armstrong, Louis, and melody, and rhythm
âmusic: “Copenhagen,” “Go âLong Mule,”â “Heebie Jeebies,” “Hello Dolly,” “Hotter than That,” “I Can't Give You Anything But Love,” “I Got a Right to Sing the Blues,” “I'm Confessin' That I Love You,” “Tiger Rag,”
Arranging for the Modern Dance Orchestra
(Lange)
“Art poétique” (Verlaine)
ASCAP
Ashby, Harold
“Ash Wednesday” (Eliot)
Asian American Orchestra
Astaire, Fred
atonality
Attucks, Crispus
Auden, W. H.
augenmusik
Autobiography
(Stravinsky)
Avakian, George
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Babbitt, Milton,
Composition for Four Instruments
Babs, Alice
Bach, Johann Sebastian, and harmony, and history, and melody, and religious music, and rhythm, and tone colors
âmusic: Goldberg Variations, Prelude in B Minor,
The Well-Tempered Clavier
Bacharach, Burt
Bacon, Louis
Bacon, Roger
Baker, Chet
Baker, Harold
Balanchine, George,
Apollon musagète
Baldwin, James
ballads: jazz ballad, and love, and melody, and religious music
Ballard, Kay: “Rock and Roll Waltz,”
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Balzac
Bardac, Emma Moyse
Baron, Art
Barthes, Roland
Bartlett, C. Julian
Bartlett's Quotations
Bartók, Béla, “developing variation,” and harmony, and melody, and rhythm
âmusic: “Alla bulgarese,”; Bagatelle op. 6 no. 13, Bagatelle op. 6 no. 6,
For Children
, Concerto for Orchestra,
Contrasts
, Divertimento, Elegies, Four Dirges, Funeral Song,
Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs
,
Kossuth
,
Mikrokosmos
; Mourning Song,
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
; “night music,”,
Out of Doors
, Quartet no. 2, Quartet no. 4, Quartet no. 6,
Romanian Dances
; Second Quartet, Seven Sketches, Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm, Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, String Quartet no. 2, String Quartet no. 5, Suite for Piano, “Syncopation” study no. 133
Basie, Count, Count Basie Orchestra, and history, and rhythm, and tone colors
âmusic: “April in Paris,”, “Blues in the Dark,”; “Jumpin' at the Woodside,” “Lester Leaps In,”, “Lunceford Special,” “Shiny Stockings,”
Basilica de Santa Maria del Mar (Barcelona)
“Basin Street Blues,”
Baudelaire, Charles
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Beach Boys,.
See also
Wilson, Brian
Beatles, “Eleanor Rigby,” “I Will,” “Norwegian Wood,”
Sgt. Pepper
, “Strawberry Fields,”;
“When I'm Sixty-Four,” “Yesterday,”
bebop, hard bop, and history, and melody, post-bop, and rhythm
Bechet, Sidney, “Blue Horizon,”
Beethoven, Ludwig van, and harmony, and history, and rhythm, and tone colors
âmusic,
Eroica
, Fifth Symphony, Ninth Symphony, “Ode to Joy,” Piano Sonata op. 31, no. 3, Seventh Symphony, Third Symphony
The Beggars
' Opera
Beiderbecke, Bix, “In a Mist,”
Bellson, Louis
Belyi, Andrei
Bennie Moten Orchestra: “Moten Swing,”, “Toby,”
Benny Carter Orchestra
Benton, Thomas Hart
Berg, Alban, cryptogram for, death of, and harmony, and
Höhepunkte
, and love; secret programs in music
âmusic: Altenberg Lieder, op. 4,
Kammerkonzert
,
Lulu
,
Lyric Suite
, “Monoritmica,” Piano Sonata op. 1, Seven Early Songs,
Three Fragments from Wozzeck
, Violin Concerto, Wind Quintet, op. 26;
Wozzeck
Berg, Helene Nahowski
Berger, David
Berlin, Irving, “Play a Simple Melody,”; “Putting on the Ritz,”, “That Mysterious Rag,” “What'll I Do?”, “You're Just in Love,”
Berliner, Paul
Bernstein, Leonard,
Chichester Psalms
,
Jeremiah Symphony
, “Lamentation,”
Mass
, “A Simple Song,” “Somewhere,”
West Side Story
Bigard, Barney, and His Orchestra, and history, and melody, and rhythm, and tone colors
Big Band de Lausanne
big bands,
See also names of individual big band composers
Bill Haley and the Comets
Birdland
Birth of a Nation
(film)
Birth of Race
(film)
Bishop, A. J.
Bizet:
Carmen
, “Habanera,”
Black, Brown and Beige
;
Beige
,
Black
,
Brown
, poetic script of, reading of, and religious music; and Second World War
Black and Tan
(film)
Black and Tan Fantasy
(film)
Black Nativity
(musical)
Blake, Eubie, “I'm Just Wild about Harry,”;
Shuffle Along
Blakey, Art
Blanton, Jimmy
Blanton-Webster Band
Blavatsky, Madame Helena
Blazing Saddles
(film)
Blitzstein, Mark,
Symphony: The Airborne
Blok, Aleksandr
The Blue Rider
blues: and Black, Brown and Beige
, and “Black Beauty,”; “blue note,”, “blues as process,” “blues men/women,”, blues scale, “blues sound ideal,” coloratura, defined, as dialogue, and harmony, and history, individual player's sound in, and jazz,
klangfarbenmelodie
, and melody, and “Mood Indigo,”, “as music,”; and religious music, and “Reminiscing in Tempo,”; and rhythm, rhythm and blues, and
Such Sweet Thunder
, theme and variations, and tone colors
Blues and Roots
“Blues in the Dark,”
“Blue Skies,”
Blues People
(Jones)
Bolden, Buddy
Book-of-the-Month Club
Botstein, Leon
Boulez,
Structures I
Bowles, Paul
Bradford, Perry, “Crazy Blues,”
Brahms, Johannes, Fourth Symphony, and “
schwebende Tonalität
,” Second Piano Concerto
Brando, Marlon
Braud, Wellman
Brecht, Bertolt:
Mahagonny
, “Surabaya Johnny,” “Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib?”
Briggs, Bunny
Britten, Benjamin,
War Requiem
Britton, Peter
Broadway musicals, and melody; and religious music,
See also names of individual Broadway composers; titles of Broadway shows/songs
Brooks, Mel
Brooks, Shelton, “Darktown Strutters' Ball,” “Some of These Days,”
Brown, Anthony
Brown, James
Brown, John
Brown, Lawrence
Browne, Roscoe Lee
Brubeck, Dave, “Blue Rondo à la Turk,” “The Duke,” “It's a Raggy Waltz,” “Take Five,” “Unsquare Dance,”
Burns, Ralph, “Early Autumn,”
Burns, Robert
Burris, Dick
Busoni, Ferruccio
Â
Cabin in the Sky
(film)
Cage, John;
Williams Mix
cakewalks
California
Eagle
Calloway, Cab
Cambridge University
Carmichael, Hoagy, “Rockin' Chair,”
Carnegie Hall; and
Black, Brown and Beige
Carney, Harry, and
Black, Brown and Beige
, and Concerts of Sacred Music, as Ellington's driver, and
Such Sweet Thunder
“Carolina Shout,”
Carter, Benny, Benny Carter Orchestra
Carter, Elliott, Piano Concerto
Century of Negro Progress exhibition (Chicago)
C'est l'extase langoureuse
(Verlaine)
Chambers, Paul
Chaplin, Charlie, “Smile,”
Charles, Ray
Charleston
Chat Noir
Chavez, Carlos
Chernoff, John Miller
Cherry, Don
Chicago Symphony
Chicago Tribune
Child, Julia
Chocolate Kiddies
Chopin, Frédéric,
Ballades
, Funeral March, mazurkas
Christenson, Lew
Christianity
City Center (New York City)
Civic Auditorium (Portland, Ore.)
civil rights movement
Civil War, antebellum period
Clara Ward Singers
Clark, Buddy
classical composers/music, and harmony, and history, and jazz, and love, and melody, and religious music, and rhythm, “rocket” figure, and tone colors, and xylophone,.
See also
European culture/music; opera;
names of individual classical composers
clave
Clayton, Buck
Cleveland, James
Clinkscales, Marietta
Cobb, Jimmy
Cocteau, Jean
Cohen, Harvey
Cole, Bob, “Under the Bamboo Tree,”
Cole, Nat King
Coleman, Alexander
Coleman, Ornette
Collier, James Lincoln
color.
See
tone color
Coltrane, Alice
Coltrane, John,
A Love Supreme
, “My Favorite Things,” “Psalm,”
Columbia University, Kellett Fellowship
come scritto
Communist Party/communism
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
(Kandinsky)
Concerts of Sacred Music;
First Sacred Concert
,
Second Sacred Concert
,
Third Sacred Concert
Confrey, Zez, “Stumbling,”
“Congo” (Lindsay)
Congress for Racial Equality
Connor, Eugene “Bull,”
continuo
Conversation
(Stravinsky)
Cook, Will Marion, Southern Syncopated Orchestra
Cooke, Sam
Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Copland, Aaron, archives of, and history, and Pulitzer Prize
âmusic:
Appalachian Spring
;
Billy the Kid
, “Day of Wrath,” “Fear in the Night,” “Hoe-Down,”
Lincoln Portrait
, “Lord's Day,” “Moment of Crisis,”
Music for the Theatre
, Piano Concerto, Piano Variations,
Rodeo
,
El Salón México
, Short Symphony, “Simple Gifts,”,
Statements
,
Variations on a Shaker Theme
copyright law
Corelli
Cotton Club, in
Black and Tan
(film), and history, and love, “plantation” atmosphere of, and religious music, segregation of
Coventry Cathedral
Cowell, Henry
Cox, Baby
Craft, Robert
Crane, Hart
Crawford, Ruth; “heterophony of dynamics,” String Quartet
Creamer, Henry, “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans,”
Cripps, Thomas
The Crisis
Crosby, Bing
Crosby, Bob, “Tiger Rag,”
cubist rhythms
Cunningham, Merce
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Daily Worker
Dameron, Tadd
Damrosch, Walter
A Damsel in Distress
(film)
Dance, Stanley
Darrell, R. D.
Davis, Almena
Davis, Kay
Davis, Miles; “All Blues,”
On the Corner
, “Freddie Freeloader,”;
Kind of Blue
,
Miles Ahead
;
Porgy and Bess
,
Sketches of Spain
, “So What,” “Surrey with the Fringe on Top,”
Davis, Richard
Dean, James
Debussy, Claude, and harmony, and
klangfarbenmelodie
, and love, and melody, and rhythm, snowscapes of; and “symphonic sketches,” and tone colors
âmusic:
Ariettes oubliées
,
Children's Corner
; “De Soirâ¦,”;
En Blanc et Noir
; “En Sourdine,” “Et la lune Descend sur le temple qui fut,”; “Etude in Chromatic Steps,”
Fêtes galantes
, “Golliwog,”;
Ibéria
,
Images
, “Je suis affreuse ansi,” “Jeux de vagues,”,
La Mer
;
Pelléas et Mélisande
; “Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d'été”,
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
,
Préludes
, “La Puerta del Vino,” “Rêverie,”
Six épigraphes antiques
, “
Le Tombeau des naiads
,”
Trois chansons de Bilitis