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Music 1900 - 1945
Title: Music 1900 - 1945
Category: Arts & Humanities / Music
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Music 1900 - 1945
American jazz is another non-European influence on twentieth-century composers. Musicians were fascinated by its syncopated rhythms and improvisational quality, as well as by the unique tone colors of jazz bands. Unlike a string-dominated symphony orchestra, a jazz band emphasizes woodwinds, brasses, and percussion.
Jazz elements were used in works as early as Debussy’s Golliwogg’s Cake-Walk (from the suite Children’s Corner, 1908) and Stravinsky’s Ragtime (from The Soldier’s Tale, 1918). But the peak …showed first 75 words of 3268 total…
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