Tin Pan Alley

For our assignment this week, we are asked to create a study review to assist in preparing for the final exam. Because of the amount of material covered in this seven-week course, it is difficult to create a comprehensive review. Since some of the questions may come from past quizzes, focusing on concepts and facts that were difficult to understand should be helpful. Another resource is the electronic website of our textbook, “What’s That Sound?” The website contains chapter outlines which highlight

Trail for Hallelujah Land (1931), Sunday Go to Meetin’ Time (1936), Clean Pastures (1937), Uncle Tom’s Bungalow (1937), Jungle Jitters (1938), The Isle of Pingo Pongo (1938), All This and Rabbit Stew (1941), Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943), Tin Pan

Born on September 26, 1898, in Brooklyn, New York, George Gershwin dropped out of school and began playing piano professionally at age 15. Within a few years, he was one of the most sought after musicians in America. A composer of jazz, opera and popular songs for stage and screen, many of his works are now standards. Gershwin died immediately following brain surgery on July 11, 1937, at the age 38. Rhapsody in Blue is a 1924 musical composition by American composer George Gershwin for solo piano

countries. One great example of this kind of compositions is Beach’s Gaelic Symphony, the kind of musical elements which pay honor to the Scottish and Irish settlers who played great role in the history of America (Monson & Marvin, 2013). Tin Pan Alley music Tin Pan Alley music rose to the fame at the start of the 20th century, the same time the United States was starting its meteoric rise to cultural greatness that is enjoying currently. This music always appear very bright and happy. Composers like Gershwin

has influenced many time periods and ways of life in America. "'Tin Pan Alley was a real alley on East Fourteenth Street near Third (in New York), but it was never just a place. Tin Pan Alley has come to be known for an era of songwriting when many musical ideas mixed together to form American popular music. Tin Pan Alley brought together many styles: blues, jazz, musical scores, and ragtime"' (Burton Lane qtd. In "Tin Pan Alley"). What are the various jazz styles? Not only has jazz affected

Music Notes: Midterm One Introduction Studying Rock: * Fan mentality: reject other forms of music * Gold Records: 500,000 copies * Platinum Records: 1 million copies Themes: * Social, political, and cultural issues * Issues of race, class, and gender * The development of the music business * The development of technology The Popularity Arc: * Mainstream popularity is the ‘peak’ * Genres tend to develop underground and aren’t written about historically during

were still produced by Tin Pan Alley, including 1923’s “Yes We Have No Bananas” and 1925’s “Sweet Georgia Brown.”.(Carlisle 43) The name Tin Pan Alley was given to a group of music publisher and artists who lived in New York City during the 1900s. Tin Pan Alley was very popular around that age. “They dominated the popular music of the United State in the late 19th century and early 20th century.” (Carlisle 43) Tin Pan Alley got their name because they were located in an alley in Manhattan. Jazz initially

Chapter Three: Sinatra and his Impact on the Music Industry The third and final way that Frank Sinatra influenced popular music was through setting new trends within the music industry, which continue today. The industry acquired two trends which later became the mainstream: the first was the decision for a vocalist to start a solo career, and the second being the popularization of the American Popular Songbook. The Chairman of the Board, as Sinatra was commonly known, decided to start his solo

On December 27, 1927 when the premiere of Show Boat opened in the spectacular new Ziegfeld Theater, producer Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. had brought something new to Broadway. As Katherine Leigh Axtell writes, the show was “neither an operetta nor a musical comedy, neither a vaudeville nor a revue.” For the first time, composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II seamlessly integrated plot, character, music, and dance into a modern musical production -- starting a new genre of musical, which

controversial items from politics and culture and focuses more on fitting syllables to the beat, different from the intentions of Tin Pan Alley writers who sought after wit, metaphor, or double entendre in their lyrics. Martin believes that songwriting should be a collaborative effort, and unlike 100 years ago, a strict organizational system confined to one area like Tin Pan Alley isn’t needed to achieve this. In today’s world of connectivity, innovations like the Internet and social media have allowed