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Decadence

de Falla, Manuel

De Kooning, Willem, “Ruth's Zowie,”

De Koven, Reginald

de Mille, Agnes

Democratic Party

Denby, Edwin

Denning, Michael

de Paris, Wilbur

“De Profundis clamavi” (Baudelaire)

Desmond, Paul

Dewhurst, Colleen

Dickenson, Vic

Diddley, Bo

Dietschy, Marcel

“Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue” (Avakian)

dirges

disco

Dixieland

Dodds, Johnny

Dolphy, Eric, “Hat and Beard,”;
Out to Lunch

Domino, Fats, “Ain't That a Shame,”

Donaldson, Walter, “You, You're Driving Me Crazy,”

Donne, John

Dorsey, Tommy

Dos Passos, John

Douglass, Frederick

Dowland, John

DownBeat

Dowson, Ernest

A Drum Is a Woman
(television musical)

DuBois, W. E. B.

Dupont, Gabrielle

Dust Belt

Dvo
ák, “New World” Symphony

 

Eckstine, Billy

Edison, Thomas

Eisenhower, Dwight

Eisler, Hanns

Eldridge, Roy

Eliot, T. S.

Ellington, Daisy Kennedy

Ellington, Duke, archives of; birth/birthdays of, in
Black and Tan
(film), childhood in Washington, D.C., composing for individual styles of players, death of; denied Pulitzer Prize, “Ellington effect,”, and harmony, and history, and jungle music, Kentucky Club Orchestra
of, and love/sexuality, and lyricists; and melody, nickname of, as painter, parents of; poetic script of
Black, Brown and Beige
, portraits of ladies, “preludes” of, and race relations, and radio, and religious music, and rhythm; and Shakespeare, “standards” of, and Strayhorn; and tone colors, tone parallels of

—music, “Across the Track Blues,”, “Afro Bossa,” “Ain't But the One,”, “Ain't Nobody Nowhere Nothin' Without God,” “The Air-Conditioned Jungle,” “All Too Soon,”, “Almighty God,”, “Amad,” “Anatomy of a Murder,” “Are You Sticking?” “On a Turquoise Cloud,”, “Awful Sad,”, “Azure,”, “Balcony Serenade,”, “Battle of Swing,”
Beggars Holiday
; “The Biggest and Busiest Intersection,” “Birmingham Breakdown,” “Bitch's Ball,”,
Black, Brown and Beige
, “Black and Tan Fantasy,”, “Black Beauty,”; “Black Butterfly,”, “Bli-Blip,” “Blood Count,”, “The Blue Belles of Harlem,”, “Blue Bubbles,” “Blue Cellophane,”, “Blue Goose,” “Blue Harlem,” “Blue Light,”; “Blue Pepper,” “Blue Ramble,” “The Blues,”, “Blue Serge,”, “The Blues I Love to Sing,”, “The Blues with a Feeling,”
Blutopia
, “Bojangles,”, “Bonga,”
Boola
, “Boy Meets Horn,” “Braggin' in Brass,”, “Brown Betty,” “Brown Skin Gal,” “Café au lait,” “Caravan,” “Carnegie Blues,” “Chelsea Bridge,”, “Chocolate Shake,” “Circle of Fourths,”, “C Jam Blues,”, “Clarinet Lament,”, “Clothed Woman,”, “Coloratura,” “Come Sunday,”, “Concerto for Cootie,”, Concerts of Sacred Music;
Controversial Suite
, “Cop Out,” “Cotton Tail,”, “Creamy Brown,” “Creole Love Call,”; “Creole Rhapsody,”, “Crescendo in Blue,”, “Dancers in Love,”, “David Danced,”, “Daybreak Express,”, “Day Dream,”,
Deep South Suite
, “Delta Serenade,”, “Depk,” “Diminuendo in Blue,”, “Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me,” “Don't Get around Much Anymore,” “Don't Get Down on Your Knees to Pray until You Have Forgiven Everyone,”, “Drop Me Off in Harlem,”
Duke Ellington Indigos
;
Duke Ellington's Jazz Violin Session
;
Duke Ellington Songbook
, “Duke's Place,” “Dusk,”, “East St. Louis Toodle-Oo,”, “Ebony Rhapsody,” “Echoes of Harlem,”, “Echoes of the Jungle,”, “Eerie Moan,” “Emancipation Celebration,”, “Every Man Prays in His Own Language,” “Everything But You,”
Far East Suite
, “Father Forgive,”
First Sacred Concert
, The Gal from Joe's,” “Giddybug Gallop,” “The Gold Broom and the Green
Apple,” “Golden Cress,” “Golden Feather,” “Hallelujah,”; “Happy-Go-Lucky Local,”,
Harlem
, “Harlem Airshaft,”, “Heaven,”, “Heritage,”,
And His Mother Called Him Bill
, “Hot and Bothered,”, “Hot Harlem,” “Hymn of Sorrow,” “I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues,” “I Didn't Know About You,” “I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good,”, “I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart,” “I'm Beginning to See the Light,”, “I'm Just a Lucky So-and-so,” “Immigration Blues,”, “In a Jam,” “In a Mellotone,”, “In a Sentimental Mood,”, “In the Beginning God,”, “Is God a Three-Letter Word for Love?” “It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing),”, “It's Freedom,” “It's Glory,” “It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream,” “Jack the Bear,”, “Jail Blues,” “Jeeps Blues,” “Jig Walk,” “Jubilee Stomp,”,
Jump for Joy
, “Jump for Joy”, Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin',” “Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me),” “Killin' Myself,” “King Fit the Battle of Alabam',”; “Ko-Ko,”; “Lady in Blue,” “Lady Mac,”, “Lady of the Lavender Mist,” “Later,”
Latin American Suite
,
Liberian Suite
, “Light,”, Lord's Prayer, “Lost in Meditation,” “Lotus Blossom,”, “Love You Madly,” “Lovin' Lover,” “Lush Life,”, “Madness in Great Ones,”, “Magenta Haze,” “Magnolias Dripping with Molasses,” “Main Stem,” “The Majesty of God,” “Menelik,”, “Merry Go Round,” “Midnight Indigo,” “Misty Morning,”, “Moanin',” “Montage,”, “The Mooche,”, “Mood Indigo,”, “Moon Mist,”, “Morning Glory,” “Multicolored Blue,”
Music Is My Mistress
, “My Love,” “My Man Sends Me,” “My Mother, My Father,”
My People
, “Mystery Song,”,
New Orleans Suite
,
New World A-Comin
,',
Night Creature
, “99%,”, “Non-Violent Integration,” “Old Man Blues,”, “Perdido,”
Perfume Suite
, “La Plus Belle Africaine,” “A Portrait of Bert Williams,”, “Portrait of Florence Mills,” “Portrait of Wellman Braud,”
Pousse-café
; “Praise God and Dance,”, “Prelude to a Kiss,”; “Purple Gazelle,”
Queenie Pie
;
Queen's Suite
, “Rain Check,”, “Reminiscing in Tempo,”, “Riding on a Blue Note,”, “Ring Dem Bells,”
The River
, “Rockin' in Rhythm,”, “Rocks in My Bed,”, “Rocky Mountain Blues,” “Rude Interlude,”; Sacred Concerts, “The Saddest Tale,” “Satin Doll,”, “Saturday Night Function,” “The Second Line,”,
Second Sacred Concert
, “Sepia Panorama,”, “The Shepherd (Who Watches over the Night Flock),”, “Showboat Shuffle,” “Single Petal of a Rose,” “The Sleeping Lady and the Giant Who Watches over Her,” “Sloppy Joe,”, “Solitude,”, “Something about Believing,”, “Sonata,” “Sonnet for Caesar,”, “Sonnet for Sister Kate,”, “Sonnet in Search of a Moor,”, “Sonnet to Hank Cinq,”, “Sophisticated Lady,”, “Squatty Roo,” “St. James
Infirmary,” “Strange Feeling,”; “String Session,” “Subtle Lament,”,
Such Sweet Thunder
, “Such Sweet Thunder”, “Sugar Hill Penthouse,”, “Suite Thursday,” “Supreme Being,” “Swampy River,” “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,”,
Symphony in Black
, “Take It Easy,” “Take the A Train,”, “Tattooed Bride,” “The Telecasters,”, “Tell Me It's the Truth,”, “T.G.T.T.” (Too Good to Title), “There Was Nobody Looking,”
Third Sacred Concert
,
Three Black Kings
, “Tiger Rag” (arr.);
A Tone Parallel to Harlem
, “Transblucency,”, “Truckin',” “The Twenty-Third Psalm,”, “Ultra-violet,” “U.M.M.G.,”, “Violet Blue,” “Warm Valley,”, “Washington Wabble,” “West Indian Dance,”, “What Color Is Virtue?” “When Nobody Was Looking,” “Where's the Music,” “Will You Be There?”, “Workin' Blues,” “Work Song,”; “Zonky Blues,” “Zweet Zurzday,”

Ellington, Mercer

Ellington, Ruth

Ellington Orchestra, and
Black, Brown and Beige
, and melody, “rebirth” of, and religious music, and
Such Sweet Thunder
,.
See also names of individual band members

Ellison, Ralph

Elman, Ziggy, “And the Angels Sing,”

Emancipation Proclamation, centenary of

Emerson, Ida, “Hello My Baby!”

The Emperor Jones
(O'Neill)

England, Nicholas

Ertegun, Nesuhi

essentialism

Europe, James Reese; Hell-fighters Band

European culture/music, archives of, baroque music, and continuo, and harmony, and history, and jazz, and melody, Renaissance music, and rhythm, and rubato, and tone colors, and xylophone,.
See also
classical composers/music;
names of individual European composers

Evans, Bill, “Waltz for Debby,”

Evans, Gil;
Miles Ahead
;
Porgy and Bess
,
Sketches of Spain

“The Evolution of the Negro in Picture, Song, and Story” (historical pageant)

Evolution of the Negro in Picture, Song, and Story (musical)

exoticism: and rhythm, and tone colors

expressionism

 

Faddis, Jon

fascism, protofascism

Fats Domino

Feather, Leonard

feminism

Fibonacci series

Fields, Dorothy

Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church (New York City)

fin de siècle
, and rhythm, and tone colors

Finnegan, Bill

Finnegans Wake
(Joyce)

First World War

Fitzgerald, Ella

Five Spot

Flagello, Nicolas

Fleming, Renée

Fletcher Henderson Orchestra

Flory, Med

Floyd, Samuel

folk music, and harmony, and history, and rhythm

Fonaroff, Nina

Fontages Legion of Free Haitians

Forte, Allen

Forward Day by Day
(Episcopal church)

Foster, Pops

Foster, Stephen, “Beautiful Dreamer,” “Old Folks at Home,”

fox-trot

Franklin, Aretha

freedom songs

Freud, Sigmund

Friars Society Orchestra

Friedwald, Will

Fuchs-Robettin, Hanna Werfel

Fuchs-Robettin, Herbert

Fuller, Loïe

“Full Moon and Empty Arms,”

Furia, Philip

futurism

 

Gaines, Lee: Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin',”

Garafola, Lynn

Garden, Mary

Garner, Errol

Gazzelloni, Severino

Gebrauchsmusik

Der gelbe Klang
(opera)

gender: in
Appalachian Spring
, in Black,
Brown and Beige
, in
Lyric Suite
, in
Rodeo
, in
Such Sweet Thunder
, and tone colors,
See also
sexuality

Gensel, John

George, Nelson

George, Stefan

Gershwin, George, death of, and history, and love, and melody; and rhythm

—music:
An American in Paris
, “Boy What Love Has Done to Me,” “Do It Again,” “Embraceable You,”, “Fascinating Rhythm,”
Girl Crazy
, “I Got Rhythm,”; “It Ain't Necessarily So,” “Liza,”, “Love Is Sweeping the Country,” “The Man I Love,” “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” Piano Concerto in F,
Porgy and Bess
,
Preludes
,
Rhapsody in Blue
; “Somebody Love Me,” “Someone to Watch Over Me,”; “Summertime,”

Gerstl, Richard

Gesamtkunstwerk

Gezzelloni, Severino

Giddins, Gary

Gilbert and Sullivan

Gill, Roscoe

Gillespie, Dizzy, “Koko,” “Things to Come,”

Giraud, Albert

Gish, Lillian

Giuffre, Jimmy

Glinka,
Ruslan and Lyudmila

Globe Theatre (London)

Gonsalves, Paul, and
Such Sweet Thunder
, and “wailing interval,”

Goodman, Benny, “Bugle Call Rag,” “Solitude,” “Tiger Rag,”

“Good News,”

Gordon, Irving

gospel music

Gould, Glenn

Grace Cathedral (San Francisco)

Graettinger, Bob, “City of Glass,”, “Thermopylae,”

Graham, Martha,
Appalachian Spring
, “Daughter of Colchis,”; Dream Ballet (
Oklahoma!
), “House of Victory,”

Great American Songbook

Great Depression

Greenlee, George

Green Pastures
(film)

Greer, Sonny

Grieg, Edvard,
Peer Gynt

Griffith, D. W.

Grofé, Ferde,
Grand Canyon Suite

Guthrie, Tyrone

Guthrie, Woody

Guy, Fred

 

habanera

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