Music 271: 4/27/07 (Last Day!)II: “Modern Jazz” or “Bebop”: A: Principal players:• Tenor Sax: Charlie Parker• Trumpet: John Gillespie (Dizzy Gillespie...

Music 271: 4/25/07I: The Blues: A: Form:• Solo vocalist accompanied by a guitar, small jazz ensemble, Big Band, guitar based ensembles, etc.• Sing the...

Music 271: 4/23/07II: Jazz: Overview of Style and History: (GB: p.81-82)• Blends European and West African traditions• Traceable to beginning of the 2...

Music 271: 4/20/07II: American Neo-Classicism concluded: Copland’s Piano Variations and beyond:• Copland, Elliot Carter were all Neo-Classic composers...

Music 271: 4/18/07I: Igor Stravinsky’s contributions to the formation of 20th-century art music: A: Second Stage Nationalist (to the beginning of WWI)...

Music 271: 4/16/07I: Schönberg’s twelve-tone composition or Serialism (c1923-1951):• Logical use of all 12 pitches of the chromatic scale• Suite für k...

Music 271: 4/9/07II: Claude Debussy (1862-1918): → Stravinsky → French Composers (Poulenc) A: Education:• Paris Conservatory• Captivated by music of W...

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Music 271: 4/11/07II: Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Evolving approach to musical composition: tonality and form:• Short and simple motives, developed in...

Music 271: 4/2/07II: The post-Romantic Period and the turn towards the 20th century: the generation of 1860:• Hard to differentiate the Nationalistic ...