The Ellington Century (69 page)

Strauss, Richard,
Also sprach Zarathustra
,
Salome
,
Till Eulenspiegel

Stravinsky, Igor, and harmony, and history, and
matières sonores
, and melody, Norton Lectures of, and rhythm; Russian period, and tone colors, tool kit of

—music:
Agon
,
Apollon musagète
, Bransle Double, Concerto in E. (“Dumbarton Oaks”),
Danse sacrale
,
Ebony Concerto
,
Firebird
,
The Flood
, Fugue no. 15 in D
, Fugue no. 2 in A Minor,
Histoire du soldat
; “Lanter-loo,”
Orpheus
, “Pas d'action,”; “Pas de deux,”
Petrouchka
,
Piano Rag Music
,
Pribaoutki
,
Pulcinella
,
Ragtime for Eleven
Instruments
;
The Rake's Progress
,
Requiem Canticles
,
Le sacre du printemps
, Serenade for Piano, Serenade in A,
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
, Symphony in C, Symphony in Three Movements,
Symphony of Psalms
,
Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet
,
Threni

Strayhorn, Billy: and
Black, Brown and Beige
, and café society, and cancer, and Concerts of Sacred Music, death of, and
Deep South Suite
, and Ellington; and harmony, homosexuality of, and Horne, and melody, “preludes” of, and rhythm, and Shakespeare, and tone colors

—music: “Agra,” “Balcony Serenade,”,
Beige
, “Blood Count,”, “Bluebird of Delhi,” “Chelsea Bridge,”, “Day Dream,”, “Dirge,”, “Half the Fun,”, “Hear Say,”, “Isfahan,” “Jack the Bear,”, “Johnny Come Lately,”, Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin',” “Lady Mac,”; “Lately,”, “Lotus Blossom,”, “Lush Life,”,
Perfume Suite
, “Pretty Girl,”, “Rain Check,”, “The Star-Crossed Lovers,”, “Stomp,”
Such Sweet Thunder
, “Sugar Hill Penthouse,”, “Symphonette-Rhythmique,”, “Take the A Train,”, “U.M.M.G.,”, “Up and Down, Up and Down,”

Sublette, Ned

Such Sweet Thunder
, “Circle of Fourths,”, “Half the Fun,”, “Lady Mac,”, “Madness in Great Ones,”, recording of, sonnets, “Sonnet for Caesar,”, “Sonnet for Sister Kate,”, “Sonnet in Search of a Moor,”, “Sonnet to Hank Cinq,”, “The Star-Crossed Lovers,”, “Such Sweet Thunder,”, “The Telecasters,”, “Up and Down, Up and Down,”

“Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” (Seurat painting)

Sun Ra (Herman Poole Blount)

Supreme Court, U.S.

Surinach, Carlos

Swedenborg, Emanuel

“Sweet Sue, That's You,”

swing; and
Black, Brown and Beige
, in “Cotton Tail,”, and history, in Concerto in E
(“Dumbarton Oaks”), and love, in “Prelude to a Kiss,” and rhythm, in “Run Old Jeremiah,”; in “Tiger Rag,”

The Swing Era
(Gunther)

symbolism: and rhythm, and tone colors

Symphony Hall (Boston)

Symphony in Black
(film)

synesthesia,
See also
tone color

Szigeti, Joseph

 

The Taming of the Shrew
(Shakespeare)

Taruskin, Richard

Tatum, Art,
Art Tatum Solo Masterpieces
, Art Tatum Trio, and harmony, “Tiger Rag,”

Taylor, Billy

Taylor, Cecil

Taylor, Eva

Tchaikovsky, “1812 Overture,”
Nutcracker

“Tea for Two,”

Tenney, James

Terry, Clark

Texier, Rosalie “Lilly,”

The Big Show of ′51

“Them There Eyes,”

Theosophical Society

The Ronettes, “Be My Baby,”

Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns
(Slonimsky)

Thinking in Jazz
(Berliner)

Thomas, Theodore

Thompson, Emily

Thomson, Virgil

Tick, Judith

“Tiger Rag,”

timbre.
See
tone color

Time

Timmons, Bobby, “Moanin',”

Tin Pan Alley

Tirro, Frank

Titon, Jeff Todd

Tizol, Juan, and
Black, Brown and Beige
, “Caravan,” “Perdido,”

Todd, Robert

tone color, azure, beige, black, in
Black, Brown and Beige
, in “Black and Tan Fantasy,”, black-to-tan spectrum, blue, blue-gray, in “Blue Light,”; brown, café au lait, and classical composers, in “Dusk,”; in “East St. Louis Toodle-Oo,”, ebony, in “Echoes of Harlem,” fauve, fin de siècle, green, in
Apollon musagète
, in “Blue Horizon,”; in Debussy's
La Mer
, in Debussy's
Préludes
, indigo, in Stravinsky's
Apollon musagète
, and
klangfarbenmelodie
, in “Ko-Ko,”; magenta, mauve, in “Menilek,” in “Mood Indigo,”, orange, and
preludes
, and recording; red, in “The Saddest Tale,” in Schoenberg's
Pierrot Lunaire
, sepia, and spiritualism, in “Subtle Lament,”; and symbolism, and synesthesia, tan, “tone parallel,” in “Transblucency,”, turquoise, violet, white, and xylophone, yellow

tone parallels, and Bartók,
Black, Brown and Beige
, and Concerts of Sacred Music, and Debussy,
Harlem
, “Hat and Beard,”
Such Sweet Thunder
,
A Tone Parallel to Harlem

tone poems

Toscanini, and
come scritto

Totentanz
(Holbein the Younger woodcut)

Towers, Jack

Town Hall (New York City)

Townsend, Irving

Trakl, Georg

“Tristan in the Making of Pelléas” (Abbate)

Tristano, Lennie

Tubman, Harriet

Tucker, Mark, ix

Turner, J. M. W.

tutti
style

twelve-tone method, and harmony

 

Ulanov, Barry

“U.M.M.G.,”, Upper Manhattan Medical Group

Uncle Tom's Cabin
(Stowe)

United States Steel Hour (television program)

Upshaw, Dawn

Urban League

 

Valéry, Paul

van de Leur, Walter

van den Toorn, Pieter

vanguardism

Varèse, Edgard,
Density 21.5

Vasnier, Marie-Blanche

Vatican II

Vaughan, Sarah

Vegh Quartet

Verdi,
Aida
,
Falstaff

Verlaine, Paul

Veterans of the Lincoln Brigade

vibrato

Vienna

Vietnam War

Vodery, Will

“Voyelles” (Rimbaud)

 

Wagner, Richard: and Bayreuth, and Berg, and harmony, and love, and tone colors,
Tristan
chord

—music:
Lohengrin
,
Parsifal
;
Das Rheingold
,
Tristan und Isolde

Walker, Alice

Waller, Fats, “Ain't Misbehavin',”

waltzes, and
Black, Brown and Beige
, and harmony

“Warm Valley,”

Washington, Booker T.

Washington, Fredi

Wassermann, Fred

Waters, Ethel

Watkins, Tony

Watson, Joseph F.

“We, Too, Sing America” (radio address)

Webern, Anton, String Quartet, Symphony, Variations for Orchestra, op. 30

Webster, Ben, and
Black, Brown and Beige

Webster, Paul

Weill, Kurt,
Eternal Road
,
Mahagonny
, “Surabaya Johnny,”
The Threepenny Opera
; “Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib?” Violin Concerto op. 12

Wein, George

Weininger, Otto

Werfel, Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius

Wesendonck, Mathilde

Westminster Abbey (London)

Weston, Randy

Whaley, Tom

“When You're Smiling,”

Whetsol, Arthur

Whiteman, Paul, Experiment in Modern Music

Wilde, Oscar

Wilder, Alec

Williams, Bert

Williams, Cootie, and Concerts of Sacred Music

Williams, Mary Lou,
Mass for Peace

Williams, Tony

Wilson, Brian: “God Only Knows,” “Good Vibrations,”; and
klangfarbenmelodie
, “Little Deuce Coupe,”
Pet Sounds

Wilson, Teddy

Wilson, Woodrow

Wolpe, Stefan

Woode, Jimmy

Woodman, Britt

Woodyard, Sam

Wordsworth, William

“The World of Jazz” (Omnibus show)

Wright, Richard

Wright brothers

 

Xenakis, Iannis

xylophone

 

“Yankee Doodle,”

Yaryan, Jon S.

Yeats, William Butler

Young, Lester

Young, Victor, “Sweet Sue Just You,”

Yuriko (Kikuchi)

 

Zappa, Frank

Zehme, Albertine

Zeitoper

Zemlinsky, Alexander von,
Lyric Symphony

Ziegfeld, Flo: “Show Girl,”

Zola, Émile

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