Transcript Humanities Music Project 1940`s AlMusallam

Done By:Abdulla Talal AlMusallam
Mohammed Saoud AlMusallam
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Aaron Copland
Duke Ellington
Charlie Parker
Born November 14, 1900.
Died at the age of 90 on December 2,1990
American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career
a conductor of his own and other American music. Instrumental in
forging a distinctly American style of composition, in his later years he
was often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers" and is best
known to the public for the works he wrote in the 1930s and 1940s in a
deliberately accessible style often referred to as Populist and which the
composer labeled his "vernacular" style
-“Four Saints in Three Acts”
-”Billy The Kid”
-”The Courting at Burnt Ranch”
Born April 29, 1899.
Died at the age of 75 on May 24,1974
American composer, pianist, and big-band leader. Ellington wrote over
1,000 compositions. American composer, pianist, and big-band leader.
Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions.
-“Jeep’s Blues”
-”Do nothing till You hear Me”
-”Caravan”
Born August 29, 1920.
Died at the age of 34 on March 12,1955.
American jazz saxophonist and composer. Miles Davis once said, "You
can tell the history of jazz in four words: Louis Armstrong. Charlie
Parker."
-“How high the Moon”
-”Billie’s Bounce”
-”Bloomdido”
Harold Rome
Billy Hilly
Born May 27, 1908.
Died at the age of 85 on October 26, 1993.
American composer, lyricist, and writer for musical theater.
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Rome played piano in local dance bands
and was already writing music while studying architecture and law at
Yale University. After graduation he worked as an architect in New York
City, but continued to pursue his musical interests, arranging music for
local bands and writing material for revues at Green Mansions, a Jewish
summer resort in the Adirondacks. Much of the music Rome was writing
at this time was socially conscious and of little interest to Tin Pan Alley.
-“Revue Pins and Needles”
-”Wish you were here”
-”The Zula and the Zayda”
Born July 14, 1899.
Died at the age of 41 on December 24,1940
American songwriter, violinst, and pianist who found fame writing
Western songs. He studied the violin at the New England Conservatory
of Music under Karl Muck, and played with the Boston Symphony
Orchestra. Hill left home at the age of seventeen and headed west,
where he worked as a cowboy in Montana, and as a surveyor and
prospector in Death Valley, California. He returned to music and played
violin and piano in dance halls until forming his own jazz band in Salt
Lake City, Utah.
-“They Cut Down The old Pine Tree”
-”The Last Roundup”
-”Wagon Wheels”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Hill_(songwriter)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_copland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Rome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_ellington
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_parker