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 of jazz influence came during the “jazz age” of the 1920s, with works such as the ballet La Creation du monde (The Creation of the World, 1923) by the French composer Darius Milhaud and the Piano Concerto (1926) by the American composer Aaron Copland. For Americans, jazz idioms represented a kind of musical nationalism, a search for an “American sound.” lor European composers, the incorporation of jazz rhythms and tone colors represented a kind of musical exoticism. During the 1920s and 1930s, popular composers such as George Gershwin (1898—1937) used Jazz and popular elements within “classical’’ forms. Gershwin’s Rho psady in Blue (1924) and his opera l’orgy and Bess (1934—1935) are well known. Modern composers can also draw inspi
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