Music in WWI
Sara Abu-Ghnaim
Academic Decathlon
Classical Music
Sir Edward Elgar
Born on June 2, 1857 at Broadheath, England Father owned a music shop and tuned pianos- his music experiencePlayed many instruments and was self-taught composerTaught violin and played organ at St. George's Roman Catholic Church in Worcester In 1889 married Caroline Alice Roberts, one of pupilsImperial March, King Olaf, Caractacus, Pomp and Circumstance
Sir Edward Elgar
Pieces were being played in Europe and America by 1905
In WWI composed patriotic pieces
Practically lived in retirement in 1920s
Elgar suffered malignant tumor that pressed on sciatic nerve
Died on February 23, 1934
Pomp and Circumstance
Began as the trio section for Elgar’s March in D major Got name from lines in Othello:Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife,The royal banner, and all quality,Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
Richard StraussBorn on June 11, 1864 in Munich, Germany Dad played the horn and Richard became experiencedComposed at age of 6Went to university, but had no education in musicIn 1885, became conductor of the Meiningen Orchestra While ill, wrote his first opera, Guntram in 1891-3Worked with Hofmannsthal on Der RosenkavalieIn 1930s, was head of State Music Bureau In WWII protected his daughter-in-lawDied in his Garmisch home in 1949.
Waltz from Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Includes: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, rattle, tambourine, harp, and strings
Sergei Prokofiev
Born in Sontsovka on April 23, 1891Showed talent as pianist and composer at 10In 1917, finished an opera on Dostoyevsky’s Gambler Wrote The Love for Three Oranges in 1919Other works: Romeo and Juliet, Peter and the Wolf, Alexander Nevsky, Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, CinderellaDied in 1953
Symphony No. 1 in D Major
Includes 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings.
Composed from 1916-1917
Dedicated to Boris Asafiev.
The movements in it are allegro, larghetto, gavotte: non troppo
Igor Stravinsky
Born in Lomonosov on June 17, 1882Son of a leading bass musician During Great War looked for refuge in SwitzerlandIn 1920s, avoided string instruments and did wind instrumentsSome works are L'Oiseau de Feu ,Deux poèmes, Petrushka, Deux poèmes, Le roi des étoiles, Le Sacre du Printemps, Trois poésies de la lyrique japonaise, Souvenir de mon enfanceDied in 1971
Pulcinella
Commissioned in 1919 by Sergei Diaghilev- helped raise Stravinsky’s reputation
Pulcinella was first in Igor’s era of neoclassicism
Popular Music
Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes
Jack known for writing the song “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”Nora was born in 1880 Is best known for introducing George M. Cohan's song, "Over There”Started stage career and her parents thought it was full of sin and damnationNora died on March 19, 1928
“Shine on, Harvest Moon”
Written in 1908
Irving Berlin
Born in Israel Berlin on May 1888First song was “Marie from Sunny Italy”How Deep Is the Ocean?, Blue Skies, White Christmas, Always, Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better, There's No Business Like Show Business, Cheek To Cheek, Puttin' On The Ritz, A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody, HeatwaveDied on September 22, 1989, when he was 101 sleeping in NYC
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
George M. Cohan
Born in Providence, Rhode Island on July 3, 1878
Received little formal schooling but traveled with parents
Started as violinist, but later played with family in dance and sing act
Over There
Walter Donaldson
Born on February 15, 1893 in Brooklyn, New York
Son of piano teacher
Entertained troops at U.S army camps
Met Irving Berlin at Camp Upton
“Don’t Cry Frenchy”, “My Little Bimbo on a Bamboo Isle”, “Carolina in the Morning”
Walter died on July 15, 1947 in Santa Monica, California
How You Gonna Keep ‘em Down on the Farm
George and Ira Gershwin
Ira Gershwin born in New York City and attended Townsend Harris High School
George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn
Worked together on “The Man I love”
The Man I Love
Joseph Oliver
Started playing in New Orleans in 1908
Blinded in one eye
Returned to Chicago in 1922 and started King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
Was teacher and mentor of Louis Armstrong
West End Blues
Recorded in June 1928
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Independent Research
“Von der Schonheit” from Das Lied von der Erde- #3Gustav Mahler“De l’aube a midi sur la mer” from La Mer- #4Claude DebussyL’histoire du soldat SuiteThe Royal March- #6The Little Concert- #7Igor StravinskyLe tombeau de CouperinMenuet- #8Toccata- #9Maurice RavelWalzer from Funf Klavierstucke, Op.23- #11Arnold SchoenbergInterlude from Wozzeck, Act III- #12Alban BergPrologue from Music for the Theatre- #13Aaron Copland
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