by David Schiff
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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
—music: “Copenhagen,” “Go ‘Long Mule,”– “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
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
—music: 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
—music: “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
—music: “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
—music, 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
—music: 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 “schwebend
e 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
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
—music: 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
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
—music: Ariettes oubliées, Children's Corner; “De Soir…,”; 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
Decadence
de Falla, Manuel
De Kooning, Willem, “Ruth's Zowie,”
De Koven, Reginald
de Mille, Agnes
Democratic Party
Denby, Edwin
Denning, Michael
de Paris, Wilbur
“De Profundis clamavi” (Baudelaire)
Desmond, Paul
Dewhurst, Colleen
Dickenson, Vic
Diddley, Bo
Dietschy, Marcel
“Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue” (Avakian)
dirges
disco
Dixieland
Dodds, Johnny
Dolphy, Eric, “Hat and Beard,”; Out to Lunch
Domino, Fats, “Ain't That a Shame,”
Donaldson, Walter, “You, You're Driving Me Crazy,”
Donne, John
Dorsey, Tommy
Dos Passos, John
Douglass, Frederick
Dowland, John
DownBeat
Dowson, Ernest
A Drum Is a Woman (television musical)
DuBois, W. E. B.
Dupont, Gabrielle
Dust Belt
Dvoák, “New World” Symphony
Eckstine, Billy
Edison, Thomas
Eisenhower, Dwight
Eisler, Hanns
Eldridge, Roy
Eliot, T. S.
Ellington, Daisy Kennedy
Ellington, Duke, archives of; birth/birthdays of, in Black and Tan (film), childhood in Washington, D.C., composing for individual styles of players, death of; denied Pulitzer Prize, “Ellington effect,”, and harmony, and history, and jungle music, Kentucky Club Orchestra of, and love/sexuality, and lyricists; and melody, nickname of, as painter, parents of; poetic script of Black, Brown and Beige, portraits of ladies, “preludes” of, and race relations, and radio, and religious music, and rhythm; and Shakespeare, “standards” of, and Strayhorn; and tone colors, tone parallel
s of
—music, “Across the Track Blues,”, “Afro Bossa,” “Ain't But the One,”, “Ain't Nobody Nowhere Nothin' Without God,” “The Air-Conditioned Jungle,” “All Too Soon,”, “Almighty God,”, “Amad,” “Anatomy of a Murder,” “Are You Sticking?” “On a Turquoise Cloud,”, “Awful Sad,”, “Azure,”, “Balcony Serenade,”, “Battle of Swing,” Beggars Holiday; “The Biggest and Busiest Intersection,” “Birmingham Breakdown,” “Bitch's Ball,”, Black, Brown and Beige, “Black and Tan Fantasy,”, “Black Beauty,”; “Black Butterfly,”, “Bli-Blip,” “Blood Count,”, “The Blue Belles of Harlem,”, “Blue Bubbles,” “Blue Cellophane,”, “Blue Goose,” “Blue Harlem,” “Blue Light,”; “Blue Pepper,” “Blue Ramble,” “The Blues,”, “Blue Serge,”, “The Blues I Love to Sing,”, “The Blues with a Feeling,” Blutopia, “Bojangles,”, “Bonga,” Boola, “Boy Meets Horn,” “Braggin' in Brass,”, “Brown Betty,” “Brown Skin Gal,” “Café au lait,” “Caravan,” “Carnegie Blues,” “Chelsea Bridge,”, “Chocolate Shake,” “Circle of Fourths,”, “C Jam Blues,”, “Clarinet Lament,”, “Clothed Woman,”, “Coloratura,” “Come Sunday,”, “Concerto for Cootie,”, Concerts of Sacred Music; Controversial Suite, “Cop Out,” “Cotton Tail,”, “Creamy Brown,” “Creole Love Call,”; “Creole Rhapsody,”, “Crescendo in Blue,”, “Dancers in Love,”, “David Danced,”, “Daybreak Express,”, “Day Dream,”, Deep South Suite, “Delta Serenade,”, “Depk,” “Diminuendo in Blue,”, “Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me,” “Don't Get around Much Anymore,” “Don't Get Down on Your Knees to Pray until You Have Forgiven Everyone,”, “Drop Me Off in Harlem,” Duke Ellington Indigos; Duke Ellington's Jazz Violin Session; Duke Ellington Songbook, “Duke's Place,” “Dusk,”, “East St. Louis Toodle-Oo,”, “Ebony Rhapsody,” “Echoes of Harlem,”, “Echoes of the Jungle,”, “Eerie Moan,” “Emancipation Celebration,”, “Every Man Prays in His Own Language,” “Everything But You,” Far East Suite, “Father Forgive,” First Sacred Concert, The Gal from Joe's,” “Giddybug Gallop,” “The Gold Broom and the Green Apple,” “Golden Cress,” “Golden Feather,” “Hallelujah,”; “Happy-Go-Lucky Local,”, Harlem, “Harlem Airshaft,”, “Heaven,”, “Heritage,”, And His Mother Called Him Bill, “Hot and Bothered,”, “Hot Harlem,” “Hymn of Sorrow,” “I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues,” “I Didn't Know About You,” “I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good,”, “I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart,” “I'm Beginning to See the Light,”, “I'm Just a Lucky So-and-so,” “Immigration Blues,”, “In a Jam,” “In a Mellotone,”, “In a Sentimental Mood,”, “In the Beginning God,”, “Is God a Three-Letter Word for Love?” “It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing),”, “It's Freedom,” “It's Glory,” “It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream,” “Jack the Bear,”, “Jail Blues,” “Jeeps Blues,” “Jig Walk,” “Jubilee Stomp,”, Jump for Joy, “Jump for Joy”, Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin',” “Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me),” “Killin' Myself,” “King Fit the Battle of Alabam',”; “Ko-Ko,”; “Lady in Blue,” “Lady Mac,”, “Lady of the Lavender Mist,” “Later,” Latin American Suite, Liberian Suite, “Light,”, Lord's Prayer, “Lost in Meditation,” “Lotus Blossom,”, “Love You Madly,” “Lovin' Lover,” “Lush Life,”, “Madness in Great Ones,”, “Magenta Haze,” “Magnolias Dripping with Molasses,” “Main Stem,” “The Majesty of God,” “Menelik,”, “Merry Go Round,” “Midnight Indigo,” “Misty Morning,”, “Moanin',” “Montage,”, “The Mooche,”, “Mood Indigo,”, “Moon Mist,”, “Morning Glory,” “Multicolored Blue,” Music Is My Mistress, “My Love,” “My Man Sends Me,” “My Mother, My Father,” My People, “Mystery Song,”, New Orleans Suite, New World A-Comin,', Night Creature, “99%,”, “Non-Violent Integration,” “Old Man Blues,”, “Perdido,” Perfume Suite, “La Plus Belle Africaine,” “A Portrait of Bert Williams,”, “Portrait of Florence Mills,” “Portrait of Wellman Braud,” Pousse-café; “Praise God and Dance,”, “Prelude to a Kiss,”; “Purple Gazelle,” Queenie Pie; Queen's Suite, “Rain Check,”, “Reminiscing in Tempo,”, “Riding on a Blue Note,”, “Ring Dem Bells,” The River, “Rockin' in Rhythm,”, “Rocks in My Bed,”, “Rocky Mountain Blues,” “Rude Interlude,”; Sacred Concerts, “The Saddest Tale,” “Satin Doll,”, “Saturday Night Function,” “The Second Line,”, Second Sacred Concert, “Sepia Panorama,”, “The Shepherd (Who Watches over the Night Flock),”, “Showboat Shuffle,” “Single Petal of a Rose,” “The Sleeping Lady and the Giant Who Watches over Her,” “Sloppy Joe,”, “Solitude,”, “Something about Believing,”, “Sonata,” “Sonnet for Caesar,”, “Sonnet for Sister Kate,”, “Sonnet in Search of a Moor,”, “Sonnet to Hank Cinq,”, “Sophisticated Lady,”, “Squatty Roo,” “St. James Infirmary,” “Strange Feeling,”; “String Session,” “Subtle Lament,”, Such Sweet Thunder, “Such Sweet Thunder”, “Sugar Hill Penthouse,”, “Suite Thursday,” “Supreme Being,” “Swampy River,” “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,”, Symphony in Black, “Take It Easy,” “Take the A Train,”, “Tattooed Bride,” “The Telecasters,”, “Tell Me It's the Truth,”, “T.G.T.T.” (Too Good to Title), “There Was Nobody Looking,” Third Sacred Concert, Three Black Kings, “Tiger Rag” (arr.); A Tone Parallel to Harlem, “Transblucency,”, “Truckin',” “The Twenty-Third Psalm,”, “Ultra-violet,” “U.M.M.G.,”, “Violet Blue,” “Warm Valley,”, “Washington Wabble,” “West Indian Dance,”, “What Color Is Virtue?” “When Nobody Was Looking,” “Where's the Music,” “Will You Be There?”, “Workin' Blues,” “Work Song,”; “Zonky Blues,” “Zweet Zurzday,”