The Ellington Century (67 page)

Haden, Charlie

Haile Selassie

Hajdu, David

Haley, Bill, Bill Haley and the Comets, “Rock Around the Clock,”

Hall, Adelaide

Hallock, Ted

Hamilton, Chico

Hamilton, Jimmy

Hamlet
(Shakespeare)

Hamm, Charles

Hammerstein, Oscar II, “Can't Help Lovin' That Man of Mine,” “Do-re-mi,”
The King and I
,
Oklahoma!
“Old Man River,”,
Show Boat

Hammond, John

handbell, West African

Handy, W. C., “Aunt Hagar's Blues,” “St. Louis Blues,”

Hansel and Gretel

Hardwick, Otto

Harlem, and history, as “Mongrel Manhattan,” and religious music

Harlem Renaissance

“Harmonie du soir” (Baudelaire)

Harmonielehre
(Schoenberg)

harmony, and atonality, and Bartók, and blues, in “Clothed Woman,”; and Debussy, in “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat,”, and jazz, and modes, and “monotonality,” “plagal cadence,” and Ravel, in “Satin Doll,”, and Schoenberg, and Shostakovich, tonal harmony

Harney, Ben, “You've Been a Good Old Wagon But You Done Broke Down,”

Harris, Charles K., “After the Ball,”

Harris, Roy

Harris, Will, “Sweet Sue Just You,”

Harrison, Lou

Hart, Lorenz, “The Girl Friend,”; “I Didn't Know What Time It Was,”
Jumbo
, “My Funny Valentine,” “My Heart Stood Still,” “My Romance,” “There's a Small Hotel,” “This Can't Be Love,”

Hartleben, Otto Erich

Hartmann, Thomas von

Harvard Dictionary of Music

Hauer, J. M.

Hawkins, Coleman

Hawkins, Erick

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Haydn,
The Creation

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Hellfighters Band

Henderson, Fletcher, “Casa Loma Stomp,” “Chinatown,” Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, “The Stampede,”, “Wrappin' It Up,”

Henderson, Horace, “Hotter than ‘ell,”

Henderson, Luther

Hendricks, John

Hendrix, Jimi

Henry V
(Shakespeare)

Herald Tribune

Herbert, Victor

Herman, Woody, band of, “Goosey Gander,”

Herman McCoy Choir

heroism

Heyward, DuBose and Dorothy,
Porgy and Bess

Hibbler, Al

Hibbs, Leonard

Higgins, Billy

Higginson, Henry

Hillyer, Lonnie

Hindemith, Paul, and harmony, and history

—music: Suite 1922, Symphonic Metamorphoses

Hines, Earl

Hinton, Matt

history, and
Appalachian Spring
, and
Black, Brown and Beige
, and
Harlem
, and
New World A-Comin
,', and Second World War, written by music

Hodeir, André

Hodes, Art

Hodges, Johnny, and
Black, Brown and Beige
, and
con amore
, and Concerts of Sacred Music, death of, and His Orchestra, as “Johnny Lily Pons Hodges,”; and melody; and rhythm, “Squatty Roo,” and
Such Sweet Thunder

Holbein, Hans the Younger

Holder, Geoffrey

Holiday, Billie

Holliger, Heinz

Holly, Buddy

Hollywood, and history, Hollywood Democratic Committee,
See also
movies/movie theaters

“The Holy City,”

Hopkins, Gerard Manley

Horne, Lena

Horowitz, Vladimir

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Howard, John Tasker

Howard, Joseph, “Hello! Ma Baby,” “Hello My Baby!”

Howard Theatre (Washington, D.C.)

Howland, John

“How Long Has This Been Going On,”

Hubbard, Freddie

Hughes, Langston

Hughes, Spike

“Hunger Artist” (Kafka)

Hurston, Zora Neale

Hutcherson, Bobby

Huysmans, J. K.

 

I Ching

“Impression III (concert)” (Kandinsky painting)

impressionism

Independent Citizen's Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions

instinct

“I Ride an Old Paint,”

Irving Bunton Singers

Ives, Charles,
Central Park in the Dark
,
Unanswered Questions
,
Universe Symphony

 

Jackson, Mahalia

Jackson, Quentin “Butter,”

“Jack the Bear,”

Jacobs, Paul

Jarrett, Keith

Jazz: A History
(Tirro)

Jazz Harmony at the Piano
(Mehegan)

jazz/jazz musicians, and
Appalachian Spring
, and
Black, Brown and Beige
, and blues, and “Carolina Shout,”, and classical composers, and “Cotton Tail,”, free jazz, and harmony, and history, jazz ballad, jazz head, “jazzman as confessional poet,” jazz modernism, and “Madame Zajj,” and melody, modal jazz, “molecule of jazz,” and “My Romance,” and religious music, and rhythm; and “Run Old Jeremiah,”; and “Satin Doll,”, and sex/race, and
Such Sweet Thunder
, “sus” chord, symphonic jazz, and tone colors, “voicing,”

Jazz on a Summer's Day
(documentary film)

Jeffries, Herb

Jenkins, Freddy

Les Jeunes Voix

Jewish Americans

jitterbug

John Alldis Choir

Johnson, James P., and history, and melody; and rhythm

—music: “Carolina Shout,”, “Charleston,” “The Dream,”
Harlem Symphony
,
Yamekraw
, “You've Got to Be Modernistic,”

Johnson, James Weldon

Johnson, Lonnie

Johnson, Manzie

John Wesley A.M.E. Zion (Washington, D.C.)

Jolson, Al, “Avalon,”

Jones, A.M.

Jones, James Earl

Jones, LeRoi

Jones, Wallace

Jonny Spielt Auf

Joplin, Scott; “Entertainer,” “Maple Leaf Rag,”

Joyce, James

Julius Caesar
(Shakespeare)

jungle music

 

Kafka, Franz

Kallman, Chester

Kandinsky, Wassily,
Der gelbe Klang

Kárpáti, János

Keats, John

Keller, Ruby

Kelly, Wynton

Kenton, Stan, “Artistry in Rhythm,” band of

Kentucky Club Orchestra

Kern, Jerome, “Can't Help Lovin' That Man of Mine,” “Old Man River,”,
Show Boat
, “They Didn't Believe Me,”

King, B. B.

King, Martin Luther, “I have a dream” speech

“King Porter Stomp,”

Kirstein, Lincoln, Ballet Caravan

klangfarbenmelodie

Klein, Fritz Heinrich

klezmer music; “Der Shtiler Bulgar,”

Klimt, Gustave

Kodály, Zoltán

Koehler, Ted, “I Got a Right to Sing the Blues,”

“Ko-Ko,”

Kokoschka

Kolodin, Irving

Korean War

Kosma, Joseph, “Autumn Leaves,”

Kostal, Irwin

Kott, Jan

Koussevitzky

Kronos Quartet

Krupa, Gene

Ku Klux Klan

 

Ladzekpo, Alfred

Lalo, Edouard,
Le Roi d'Ys

Lambert, Constant

Lang, Pearl

Lange, Arthur

LaRocca, Nick

La Touche, John,
Ballad for Americans

Laurents, Arthur

Lawrence, Gertrude

Layton, Turner Jr., “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans,”

Lead Belly (Huddie William Ledbetter)

Lew, Barzillai

Lewis, David Levering

Lewis, John

Lewis, Morgan, “How High the Moon,”

Library of Congress

Liebich, Louise

Lincoln Center

Lindsay, Vachel

Lisle, Leconte de

Liszt;
Années de pélerinage
; “Orage,”
Transcendental Etudes

Little Richard, “Tutti Frutti,”

Lock, Graham

Locke, Alain

Lockspeiser

Loesser, Frank, “Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year,”

Logan, Arthur

Lomax, Alex

Lomax, John

Lombardo, Guy

Long, Marguerite

Longshaw, Fred

Loring, Eugene

Louvre

Louÿs,
Pierre, Chansons de Bilitis

love, in “Black and Tan Fantasy,” in “Black Beauty,”, in “The Blue Belles of Harlem,”
con amore
, in
Lyric Suite
; in
La Mer
, and jazz, in
Perfume Suite
, and race relations, in “Reminiscing in Tempo,”; in
Such Sweet Thunder
, in “Warm Valley,”.
See also
sexuality

Lowell, Robert

Lunceford Band, “Swinging Uptown,” “White Heat,”

 

Macbeth
(Shakespeare)

Macero, Ted

Mack, Cecil, “Charleston,”

Maeterlinck

Mahler, Gustav, archives of, death of

—music: Adagietto,
Das Lied von der Erde
, “Resurrection” Symphony, Second Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Third Symphony

Malcolm X

Mallarmé, Stéphane

Mancini, Henry

Marrow, Esther

Marsalis, Wynton,
Congo Square

La Marseillaise

Martin, George

Marx, Chico

Matisse, Henri

May, Billy

Mazia, Marjorie

McCarthy, Joseph

McCarty, Henry

McEntree, Edgar

McHugh, Jimmy

McHugh, Mary

McPartland, Marian

McPhail, Jimmy

“Meet the Flintstones,”

Mehegan, John

melody, in “Black Beauty,”; and blues, and classical composers, in “Day Dream,”, in “Freddie Freeloader,”; in “Mood Indigo,”, in “Koko,”, “melody gap,” in “Prelude to a Kiss,”; and sex/race, in “Sophisticated Lady,”; and “standards,”; in “St. Louis Blues,”, supermelody, in “U.M.M.G.,”

Melody Maker

Mendelssohn, Felix

Mercer, Johnny

Merman, Ethel

Messiaen, Olivier,
Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum
, “Louange à l'Immortalité de Jésus,” “Modes de valeurs et d'intensité,”
Quartet for the End of Time
,
Vingt Regards

Methodist Error
(Watson)

Metropolitan Opera House

A Midsummer Night's Dream
(Shakespeare)

Miley, Bubber

Milhaud,
La création du monde

Miller, Glenn, “Tiger Rag,”

Mills, Belwin

Mills, Florence

Mills, Irving

Mills Music

Mingus, Charles;
Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
;
Blues and Roots
, “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat,”, “Saturday Night Prayer Meeting,”

minstrel shows/style

Mitchell, Arthur

Mitropoulos, Dmitri

modernism, “agony of modern music,” and
Black, Brown and Beige
, and harmony, and history, jazz modernism, and love,
and melody, neomodernism, and rhythm, and tone colors, turning point of, “ultramodernists,”

Modern Jazz Quartet

Modern Music

modes, Aeolian, Dorian, Lochrian, Lydian, Mixolydian, modal jazz, Phrygian

Monet, Claude

Monk, Thelonious, “Blue Monk,” “Epistrophy,” “In Walked Bud,” “Misterioso,”, “Rhythm-a-ning,” “Straight, No Chaser,”

Monterey Jazz Festival

Morris, William

Morrow, Edward R.

Morton, Jelly Roll, “King Porter Stomp,”, “Maple Leaf Rag,” and rhythm

Morton, John Fass

Moten, Bennie, Bennie Moten Orchestra, “Moten Swing,”, “Toby,”

movies/movie theaters, and history, and love, and “Method” style,.
See also titles of individual films

Mozart

Murphy, Dudley

Murray, Albert

Musée d'Orsay

Music for Moderns concerts

Music Is My Mistress
(Ellington)

Mussorgsky,
Pictures at an Exhibition

My People
(musical)

“My Reverie,”

 

NAACP

Nancarrow, Conlon

Nance, Ray, and
Black, Brown and Beige

Nanton, Joe, and
Black, Brown and Beige
, and “talking trombone,” and tone colors

National Ellington Week

Nazis

NBC

NBC Symphony

“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (Hughes)

neoclassicism

Neue Sachlichkeit

Nevin, Ethelbert

The New Leader

New Musical Resources
(Cowell)

New Orleans music/musicians, and archives, and history, and rhythm, and tone colors

New Orleans Rhythm Kings

Newport Jazz Festival

New World a-Comin
' (Ottley)

The New Yorker

New York Philharmonic

New York Public Library

New York Shakespeare Festival

New York Times
,
Magazine

Nichols, Roger

Nicholson, Stuart

Nietzsche, and Dionysus

Nijinsky, Vaslav

Nineteenth Street Baptist (Washington, D.C.)

Noble, Ray, “Cherokee,”

nocturnes

Noguchi, Isamu

“No Red Songs for Me” (Ellington)

Norman, Jessye

notation

“Note on Commercial Theatre” (Hughes)

numerology

 

occult

“Ode on a Grecian Urn” (Keats)

“Ode to the West Wind” (Shelley)

Odets, Clifford

O'Donnell, May

O'Hara, Frank

Oliver, Joe, “Dipper Mouth Blues,”, “West End Blues,”

O'Meally, Robert G.

Omnibus (television program)

O'Neill, Eugene

Only Yesterday
(Allen)

opera, and
Black, Brown and Beige
, and history, and melody, and tone colors, and xylophone,
See also names of individual composers

orientalism

Original Dixieland Jazz Band (ODJB): “Livery Stable Blues,”, “Tiger Rag,”