The Transition Era : 1885 to World War I -- Jerome Kern (1885-1945) -- .Irving Berlin (1888-1989) -- George Gershwin (1898-1937) -- Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) -- Cole Porter (1891-1964) -- Harold Arlen (1905-1986) -- Vincent Youmans (1898-1946) and Arthur Schwartz (1900-1984) -- Burton Lane (1912- 1997), Hugh Martin (1914-2011), and Vernon Duke (1903-1969) -- The Great Craftsmen. Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981) ; Walter Donaldson (1893-1947) ; Harry Warren (1893-1981) ; Isham Jones (1894-1956) ; Jimmy McHugh (1894-1969) ; Duke Ellington (1899-1974) ; Fred Ahlert (1892-1953) ; Richard Whiting (1891-1938) ; Ray Noble (1907-1978) ; John Green (1908-1989) ; Rube Bloom (1902-1976) ; Jimmy Van Heusen (1913-1990) -- Outstanding Individual Songs : 1920 to 1950 -- Additional Songs and Composers.
Summary:
"Composer Alec Wilder's American Popular: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 is widely recognized as the definitive book on American popular song. In this volume, which achieved immediate praise and recognition upon its publication, Wilder discusses some 800songs from the American Songbook, offering a composer's insight, acceccible music analysis, as well has his strong personal biases. Nearly fifty years later, this classic study has received a much-needed revision. While leaving Wilder's colorful prose and brazen opinions intact, language, style, and musical nomenclature have been updated to reflect current usage. The musical examples mostly remain, but piano score has been replaced with lead-sheet notation: melody, chords, and lyrics. Rhythmic notation has also been adjusted to follow present-day norms. Additionally, a final chapter has been added, which includes more than fifty songs that were not in the original, seeking to achieve greater representation for women and African American composers, as well as including several of Wilder's own songs"-- Provided by publisher.
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