Elvis Presley, from Memphis, Tennessee, personified a new form of American popular music in the mid-1950s. Rock and roll was a guitar-based sound with a strong (if loose) beat that drew equally on African American and white traditions from the southern United States, on blues, church music, and country music. Presley’s rapid rise to national stardom revealed the new cultural and economic power of both teenagers and teen-aimed media—records, radio, television, and motion pictures. (Taken from Britannica.com)
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American composer Aaron Copland is known for works like "Appalachian Spring" and "Fanfare for the Common Man," among many others.Who Was Aaron Copland?Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, and went on to study piano and composition and studying in Europe for some time. He became one of the century’s foremost composers with highly influential music that had a distinctive blend of classical, folk and jazz idioms. Some of Copland’s most prominent pieces included Fanfare for the Common Man, El Salon Mexico and Appalachian Spring, for which he won the Pulitzer. An Oscar-winning writer of film scores as well, Copland died on December 2, 1990.
John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known primarily for American military marches.[1] He is known as "The March King" or the "American March King", to distinguish him from his British counterpart Kenneth J. Alford. Among his best-known marches are "The Stars and Stripes Forever" (National March of the United States of America), "Semper Fidelis" (official march of the United States Marine Corps), "The Liberty Bell", "The Thunderer", and "The Washington Post". Sousa began his career playing violin and studying music theory and composition under John Esputa and George Felix Benkert. His father enlisted him in the United States Marine Band as an apprentice in 1868. He left the band in 1875, and over the next five years he performed as a violinist and learned to conduct. In 1880 he rejoined the Marine Band, and he served there for 12 years as director, after which he organized his own band. From 1880 until his death, he focused exclusively on conducting and writing music. Sousa aided in the development of the sousaphone, a large brass instrument similar to the helicon and tuba. _ From Wikipedia The Marines have a site dedicated to him including a video from a 2020 ceremony celebrating his birthday. https://www.marineband.marines.mil/About/Our-History/John-Philip-Sousa/
Jean was born in 1922 and lived in Kentucky. She learned a lot of songs growing up in Appalacia. This website gives a lot of information and Music from and about Jean Richie. |
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1756 - 1791 : Austria
Mozart was a Child prodigy, which Means he was a superior Musician at a very young age. Check out his history here at Classics for kids - www.classicsforkids.com/composers/composer_profile.php
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Videos above are "Eine Kleine Nacht Musik" (A Little Night Music), The Twinkle Variations, and The Mozart Clarinet Concerto. Below you will find two different Horn Concertos and a lesson about Mozart!
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Check out more episodes of Post Modern Juicebox here -- https://postmodernjukebox.com/postmodern-juicebox-episodes/
The page also directs you to Post modern JukeBox. Here are some samples.
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Duke Ellington was born in 1899 and died in 1974. A great Jazz musician, one of his best known pieces is "Take the A Train." https://www.biography.com/musician/duke-ellington
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Born in 1947 in the USA. Mr. Gillingham writes for Concert Bands and Percussion ensembles enjoy some examples.
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If you enjoyed the piece we listened to in class. it is on this website. https://www.gillinghammusic.com/ It will be in the Band section of the playlists. Called Pedal to the Metal.
Enjoy browsing!
Famous American Movie Music Composer - Born in 1932
This Website have a full list of all the music hae has composed. - www.johnwilliams.org/compositions
There are so many amazing pieces of music is it hard to know what to pick! He has been nominated for 52 Academy awards and Won 5 grammys.
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A current composer - Lives in South Korea - Born 1978
This first video has 20!! of his Greatest Hits. You can jump through and listen to bits and pieces, or put it on in the background while working on Homework!
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These are some of his 2020 Album -
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