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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)

 

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