by David Schiff
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,”
ornaments/ornamentation
Ornette Coleman Quartet
Orwell, George
Ory, Kid
Othello (Shakespeare)
Other/otherness
Ottley, Roi
Our American Composers (Howard)
outro
Papp, Joseph
Parish, Mitchell
Parker, Charlie, and melody, and rhythm
—music: “Anthropology,” “Blues for Alice,” “Embraceable You,” “Koko,”, “Moose the Mooche,”
Parmenter, Ross
Paul Sacher Stiftung (Basel, Switz.)
Peabody Award
“Perennial Fashion—Jazz” (Adorno)
Peress, Maurice
Pergolesi, Giovanni
Perle, George
Person to Person (television program)
Philadelphia Orchestra
piano, and archives, and Black, Brown and Beige, boogiewoogie, “cocktail piano,” and harmony, and melody; piano concertos, piano rolls, player piano, and religious music, and rhythm, stride piano, and Such Sweet Thunder, and tone colors
Picasso, Pablo
Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)
“The Picture That's Turned to the Wall,”
“Pied Beauty” (Hopkins)
Pins and Needles
Piron, A. J., “I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate,”
Place Congo (New Orleans)
Pleasants, Henry
The Plow That Broke the Plain (film)
Pocahontas
Poetics of Music (Stravinsky)
Pollack, Howard
Pollock, Jackson
Popular Front
popular music/musicians, and Appalachian Spring, and Black, Brown and Beige, and harmony, and history, and melody, and religious music, and rhythm; and sex/race, and Such Sweet Thunder
populism
Porgy and Bess
Porter, Cole, “All of You,” Kiss Me, Kate, Silk Stockings, “What Is This Thing Called Love?”
Portrait of Claude Debussy (Dietschy)
postmodernism
Poulenc, Francis, “C,”
Pound, Ezra
Poussin, Nicolas
Powell, Bud
Prévert, Jacques, “Autumn Leaves,”
primitive/primitivism, and harmony, and history
Prince, Harold
Procope, Russell
program music
Prohibition
Prokofiev, Sergei, Visions fugitives
Proses lyriques (Debussy)
Puccini, Giacomo, La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, “Nessun dorma,”, Tosca, Turandot
Puck
Pulitzer Prize
race relations, and Birth of a Nation (film), and blackface, and black identity, “black is beautiful,” and black power, Brown v. Board of Education, and civil rights movement, “coonsongs,” cross-race relationships, “freedom ride,” and Harlem Renaissance, and history, and Jim Crow, and love/sexuality, and March on Washington, and melody, and minstrel style, and miscegenation, and New Negro, and “race” market, and racism, and segregation, and stereotypes, and Such Sweet Thunder, and tone colors, and Uncle Tom, See also African American culture/music; slavery/slave trade
Rachmaninoff, Second Piano Concerto, “Vocalise,”
Rackham, Arthur
radio, Armed Forces Radio Service, and Berg, and Ellington, and Schoenberg
Radiohead
ragtime, and Black, Brown and Beige, and history, and rhythm; and Such Sweet Thunder, “Tiger Rag,”; and tone colors
Rainer, Maria Rilke
Rainey, Ma
Ramin, Sid
Randolph, A. Philip
Ravel, Maurice: and harmony, and klangfarbenmelodie, and melody, and rhythm, and tone colors
—music: Alborada del gracioso, Bolero, Daphnis et Chloé, L'Heure espagnole (Ravel), Mother Goose Suite, “Pavane pour une infante défunte,” “Sainte,” Shéhérazade, Sonatine, La Valse, Valses nobles et sentimentales
Ravinia Festival (Chicago)
recordings, Atlantic, and Black, Brown and Beige; Columbia Records, and Concerts of Sacred Music; and harmony, and history; in Fargo (N.D.); in Jennings (La.), and melody, and religious music, and rhythm, and Such Sweet Thunder, and tone colors; Velvetone, Verve records, Victor
Redman, Don
Reed, Barbara
> Reich, Steve; Clapping Music; Music for 18 Musicians
Reich, Willi
Reiner, Fritz
“The Relationship to the Text” (Schoenberg)
religious music, and Black, Brown and Beige; and Concerts of Sacred Music, gospel music, and My People, sacred and profane styles, and shout chorus, See also spirituals
Republican Party
Reveille with Beverly (film)
Revolutionary War
rhythm, African
rhythms, Afro-Cuban rhythms; in Bartók's String Quartet no. 5, Bulgarian rhythms; Caribbean rhythms, in “Carolina Shout,”, and classical composers, and clave, and continuo, in “Cotton Tail,”; cubist rhythms; habanera rhythm, harmonic rhythm, in “Hat and Beard,”; hemiola rhythm, in “I Got Rhythm,”, in Stravinsky's Concerto in E (“Dumbarton Oaks”), “killer dillers,”, Latin rhythms, melodic rhythm, and notation, pulse rhythm, and ragtime; rhythm and blues, rhythm changes, rhythmic research, riff/shout rhythm; ring shout; in “Run Old Jeremiah,”; Russian rhythms, and serialism, soloistic (supermelodic) rhythm, Spanish rhythm, and swing, in “Tiger Rag,”
Riddle, Nelson, In the Wee Small Hours, Only the Lonely
Riley, Terry, Keyboard Studies
Rimbaud, Arthur
Rimsky-Korsakov, Snegurochka
ring shout, and “Knee Bone,” and “Run Old Jeremiah,”
Roach, Max
Robbins, Jerome
Roberts, Luckey
Roberts, Paul
Robertson, Marta
Robeson, Paul
Robettin, Dorothea
Robinson, Bill “Bojangles,”
Robinson, Earl, Ballad for Americans
Roché, Betty
rock/rock bands, See also titles of rock music and names of rock bands
Rodgers, Richard, and harmony, and melody
—music: “Do-re-mi,” “The Girl Friend,”; “Have You Met Miss Jones?” “I Didn't Know What Time It Was,” Jumbo, The King and I, “My Funny Valentine,” “My Heart Stood Still,” “My Romance,” Oklahoma!, “The Sound of Music,” “Spring Is Here,” “There's a Small Hotel,” “This Can't Be Love,”
Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez
Rodzinski, Arthur
Rogers, Ginger
Rogers, Shorty
Rollins, Sonny, “Oleo,”
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roots (television series)
Roppolo, Leon
Rosenfield, Monroe
rubato
Rudhyar, Dane
Runnin' Wild
“Run Old Jeremiah,”
Rushing, Jimmy
Russian War Relief
“The Saddest Tale,”
Saint John the Divine, Cathedral of (New York City)
Saint-Saëns, Danse macabre, “Mon Coeur s'ouvre à ta voix,” Samson et Dalila
Salute to Labor (television program)
Sanders, John
sarabande
Sargent, Winthrop
Satie, Erik, Gnossiennes, Gymnopédie, Parade
“Satin Doll,”
scat singing
Schenker, Heinrich
Scheuchl, Marie
Schloezer, Boris de
Schoenberg, Arnold, and Berg; “developing variation,”, “emancipation of the dissonance,” and Gerstl, Grundgestalt, and harmony, and history, and instinctual basis of life, and Kandinsky, and klangfarbenmelodie, and melody, as painter, and rhythm, and spiritualism, and sprechstimme performance style, and tone colors, and twelve-tone method
—music: The Book of the Hanging Gardens, op. 15, Chamber Symphony, “Colors,” “Enhauptung,” Erwartung, op. 17, Erwartung, op. 2, no.1, “Farben” (Colors), First String Quartet, Five Pieces for Orchestra, op. 16, Five Pieces for Piano, op. 23, Five Pieces for Piano, op. 23 no. 2, Four Orchestral Songs, op. 22, Genesis Prelude, Die glückliche Hand, Herzgewächse, Jacob's Ladder, Kammerkonzert, Kammersinfonie, op. 9, Moses und Aron, Ode to Napoleon, Pelleas und Melisande, Piano Concerto, Piano Suite op. 25, Pierrot Lunaire; “Premonitions,” Second String Quartet, “Seraphita,” op. 22, Serenade op. 24, “Summer Morning by a Lake,” Survivor from Warsaw, Theme and Variations for band, Third String Quartet, Three Pieces for Piano, op. 11, Variations for Orchestra, op. 30, Waltz, op. 23, no. 5
Schoenberg, Mathilde
Schopenhauer, Artur
Schorske, Carl
Schuller, Gunther, ix
Schuman, William
Schumann, Robert, “Die beiden Grenadiere,”
Scott, George C.
Scriabin, Alexander, Mysterium
Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra
Second World War, and Appalachian Spring, and Black, Brown and Beige, Hitler-Stalin pact, Pearl Harbor, and Rodeo, Stockholm Peace Petition
Seeger, Ruth Crawford, See also Crawford, Ruth
Seldes, Gilbert
Seraphita (Balzac)
serialism
Sesame Street (television program)
Seurat, Georges
The Seven Lively Arts (Seldes)
Sex and Character (Weininger)
sexuality, and antimiscegenation laws, black, homosexuality, and jazz, and race relations, “sexual anarchy,” sexual climax, sexual liberation, sexual repression, in Such Sweet Thunder,. See also gender; love
Shakers
Shakespeare, William
Shakespearean Festival (Stratford, Ontario)
Shakespeare in the Park (New York)
Shakespeare Our Contemporary (Kott)
sheet music, and melody
Sherrill, Joya
Shirley, Wayne
Shostakovich, Dmitri, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk, Preludes and Fugues, op. 87, Symphony no. 7 (“Leningrad”), Testimony
shouts, and Black, Brown and Beige, and rhythm, ring shout, tutti shout
Showalter, Elaine
Sibelius, Jean, Fifth Symphony, “Swan Theme,”
“The Sidewalks of New York,”
Silver, Horace, “Sister Sadie,”
Sinatra, Frank, In the Wee Small Hours
Singher, Martial
Sissle, Noble, “I'm Just Wild about Harry,”; Shuffle Along
Sketches of Spain
“Skunk Hour” (Lowell)
slavery/slave trade, and history, and rhythm
Slonimsky, Nicolas
Smalley, Roger
Smith, Bessie
Smith, Chris, “Ballin' the Jack,”
Smith, Mamie
Smith, Willie “The Lion,”
Smithsonian Museum of American History; Collection of Classic Jazz, Ellington Collection; Jazz Singers collection
“Snow at Louveciennes” (Sisley painting)
“Snow Man” (Stevens)
snowscapes
“Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,”
Sondheim, Stephen, Into the Woods
Sontag, Susan, “erotics of listening,”
“Sophisticated Lady,”
sound technologies, and acoustic environments, and tone colors,. See also recordings
Sousa, John Philip, “Liberty Bell,” Monty Python theme, “Stars and Stripes Forever,”
Souster, Tim
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Southern Syncopated Orchestra
Spanish American War
Spector, Phil
spiritualism
spirituals, and Black, Brown and Beige
square dances
Stahl, Irwin
The Star of Ethiopia (musical)
“The Star-Spangled Banner,”
Steed, Janna Tull
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)
Stevedore (drama)
Stevens, Wallace
Stewart, Rex
Still, William Grant, Symphony no. 1
“St. Louis Blues,”
St Louis Woman (film)
Stockhausen, Karlheinz, Gruppen
Stokowski, Leopold
“Stompin' at the Savoy,”
Stomping the Blues (Murray)
“Stormy Weather,”
Stormy Weather (film)
St. Peter's Lutheran Church (New York City)
Strauss, Richard, Also sprach Zarathustra, Salome, Till Eulenspiegel
Stravinsky, Igor, and harmony, and history, and matières sonores, and melody, Norton Lectures of, and rhythm; Russian period, and tone colors, tool kit of
—music: Agon, Apollon musagète, Bransle Double, Concerto in E. (“Dumbarton Oaks”), Danse sacrale, Ebony Concerto, Firebird, The Flood, Fugue no. 15 in D, Fugue no. 2 in A Minor, Histoire du soldat; “Lanter-loo,” Orpheus, “Pas d'action,”; “Pas de deux,” Petrouchka, Piano Rag Music, Pribaoutki, Pulcinella, Ragtime for Eleven Instruments; The Rake's Progress, Requiem Canticles, Le sacre du printemps, Serenade for Piano, Serenade in A, Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Symphony in C, Symphony in Three Movements, Symphony of Psalms, Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet, Threni
Strayhorn, Billy: and Black, Brown and Beige, and café society, and cancer, and Concerts of Sacred Music, death of, and Deep South Suite, and Ellington; and harmony, homosexuality of, and Horne, and melody, “preludes” of, and rhythm, and Shakespeare, and tone colors
—music: “Agra,” “Balcony Serenade,”, Beige, “Blood Count,”, “Bluebird of Delhi,” “Chelsea Bridge,”, “Day Dream,”, “Dirge,”, “Half the Fun,”, “Hear Say,”, “Isfahan,” “Jack the Bear,”, “Johnny Come Lately,”, Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin',” “Lady Mac,”; “Lately,”, “Lotus Blossom,”, “Lush Life,”, Perfume Suite, “Pretty Girl,”, “Rain Check,”, “The Star-Crossed Lovers,”, “Stomp,” Such Sweet Thunder, “Sugar Hill Penthouse,”, “Symphonette-Rhythmique,”, “Take the A Train,”, “U.M.M.G.,”, “Up and Down, Up and Down,”
Sublette, Ned
Such Sweet Thunder, “Circle of Fourths,”, “Half the Fun,”, “Lady Mac,”, “Madness in Great Ones,”, recording of, sonnets, “Sonnet for Caesar,”, “Sonnet for Sister Kate,”, “Sonnet in Search of a Moor,”, “Sonnet to Hank Cinq,”, “The Star-Crossed Lovers,”, “Such Sweet Thunder,”, “The Telecasters,”, “Up and Down, Up and Down,”
“Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” (Seurat painting)
Sun Ra (Herman Poole Blount)
Supreme Court, U.S.
Surinach, Carlos
Swedenborg, Emanuel
“Sweet Sue, That's You,”
swing; and Black, Brown and Beige, in “Cotton Tail,”, and history, in Concerto in E (“Dumbarton Oaks”), and love, in “Prelude to a Kiss,” and rhythm, in “Run Old Jeremiah,”; in “Tiger Rag,”
The Swing Era (Gunther)
symbolism: and rhythm, and tone colors
Symphony Hall (Boston)