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The Piano Variations of American composer Aaron Copland were written for piano solo from January to October 1930. They were dedicated to American writer and literary critic Gerald Sykes (c. 1904–1984), [1] and were originally published in 1932 by Cos Cob Press, which merged with Arrow Music Press in 1938 and was taken over by Boosey & Hawkes in 1956.
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development, by Gunther Schuller, is a seminal study of jazz from its origins through the early 1930s, first published in 1968. [1] It has since been translated into five languages (Italian, French, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish). [2] When it was published, it was the first volume of a projected two volume ...
Trad jazz, short for "traditional jazz", is a form of jazz in the United States and Britain that flourished from the 1930s to 1960s, [1] based on the earlier New Orleans Dixieland jazz style. Prominent trad jazz musicians such as Chris Barber, Freddy Randall, Acker Bilk, Kenny Ball, Ken Colyer and Monty Sunshine [1] performed a populist ...
Jazz Age. The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 30s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions were primarily felt in the United States, the birthplace of jazz. Originating in New Orleans as mainly sourced from the culture of African Americans, jazz played a significant part in ...
1930s in jazz. Swing jazz emerged as a dominant form in American music, in which some virtuoso soloists became as famous as the band leaders. Key figures in developing the "big" jazz band included bandleaders and arrangers Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Earl Hines, Glenn ...
Thirty-two-bar form. "Over the Rainbow" (Arlen/Harburg) exemplifies the 20th-century popular 32-bar song. [1] The 32- bar form, also known as the AABA song form, American popular song form and the ballad form, is a song structure commonly found in Tin Pan Alley songs and other American popular music, especially in the first half of the 20th ...
Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra (voc Lewis James) "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" [ 6 ] Victor 22425. May 12, 1930 (1930-05-12) June 10, 1930 (1930-06-10) US Billboard 1930 #3, US #1 for 7 weeks, 11 total weeks. 4. Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra (Vocal Jack Fulton) " Body and Soul ".
T. Timeline of music in the United States (1920–1949) Categories: 1930s in the United States. 1930s in music by country. American music by decade. Hidden category: Automatic category TOC generates no TOC.