Music of the Americas and

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Music of the Americasand

• Musical Theater

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Music of the Americas

• Stephen Foster
• Charles Ives
• Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)
• Nadia Boulanger
• Jazz idiom
• Fanfare for the Common Man

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Music of the Americas

• Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)
• Ballets
• A return to tonality
• Billy the Kid (1938)
• Rodeo (1942)
• Appalachian Spring (1944)
• Billy the Kid
• Scene 1

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Music of the Americas

• Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940)
• Mexican born and educated composer and conductor
• mestizo realism
• An artistic movement that followed the 1910
  revolution and featured the influence of native
  Mexican music.

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Music of the Americas

• Silvestre Revueltas
• Supported the loyalists in Spanish revolution and
  influenced by the death of poet, Federico García
  Lorca
• Son
• Afro-Cuban-based dance style with highly
  syncopated rhythms
• Homenaje a Federico García Lorca (1937) III - Son

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American Musical Theater

• 1920s-1960s - The "heyday" of Broadway and
• Hollywood musical production.
• Showboat (1927) "First of the Great Modern
  Musicals."
• Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II
• Oklahoma! (1943)
• Rodgers /Hammerstein
• Dance - Agnes de Mille choreography.

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American Musical Theater

• Leonard Bernstein
• (1918 - 1990)
• West Side Story (1957)
• Jerome Robbins, choreographer
• Stephen Sondheim, lyricist
• film Best Picture 1961
• Based on Shakespeares
• Romeo and Juliet

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Assignment

• Read Chapters 67 68