Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
1. Irwing Berlin
2. Paul Dresser
3. George M. Cohan
4. Harry Von Tissler
5. Victor Herbert
6. Jerome Kern
7. Harold Arlen
8. Richard Rogers
9. George Gershwin
10. Cole Porter
11. Duke Ellington
12. Ginger Rogers
13. Al Jolsen
14. Ella Fitzgerald
15. Dinah Washington
16. Albert Ammons
17. Something Harris
18. The Dominoes
19. Big Mama Thorton
20. Muddy Waters
21. The Ravens
22. The Oriels
23. Jimmy Rogers
24. Hank Williams
25. Carter Family
26. Kitty Wells
27. Bill Monroe
28. Bill Haley
29. Elvis
30. Jerry Lee Lewis
31. Carl Perkins
32. Buddy Holly
33. Everly Brothers
34. Chuck Berry
35. Little Richard
36. Bo Diddly
37. Fats Domino
38. Platters
39. Alan Freed
40. Tom Parker
41. Pat Boone
42. Ricky Nelson
43. Brenda Lee
44. Paul Angback
45. Beach Boys
46. The Temptations
47. Holland – Dosey – Holland
48. Smokey Robinson
49. Gladys Night
50. Marvin Gaye
51. Stevie Wonder
52. Barry Gordo
53.
KEY TERMS
Popular Song – an acculturation between jazz and the fine arts tradition. Tin Pan Alley,
country and black popular song all going on at the same time.
• Musicians received education from church
• Written for fantasy of a character in a play
• Emphasis on composer
• Idealistic point of view
• Many songs were conventional society set standards. There was a norm
• Structure
o 1. Verse who’s doing what to who
2. Chorus emotional situation great melody. Everyone remembers it.
[represents change in society because before verse was most important.
Compare “Jingle Bells” to “White Christmas”]
o Composer gives catch melody. Repeats melody with