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Title

music selection

Description

title, date, composer/singer/libretist/orchestrator/arranger, date premired/composed, political/social inspiration, place

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Subject

Music

Level

Not Applicable

Created

10/04/2010

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Additional Music Flashcards

Term

St. Louis Blues

Definition

Composer-W.C.Handy

Singer-Billie Holiday

Classical blues

1914

Term

Midnight Special

Definition

Singer-Lead Belly/Huddie Ledbetter

the Texan black song tradition

1934

Term

I Got Rhythm

Definition

Composer-George Gershwin

Lyrist-Ira Gershwin

First performed by Ethel merman in the Braodway musical comedy Girl Crazy

"rhythm changes"

1930

Term

Cotton Tail

Definition

Composer-Duke Ellington

big-band swing

dance music

1940

Term

Bei Mir Bist Du Schon

Definition

Composer-Sholom Secunda

Lyricist-Jacob Jacobs

Singer-Ella Fitzgerald