Music in WWI

Sara Abu-Ghnaim

Academic Decathlon

Classical Music

Sir Edward Elgar

Born on June 2, 1857 at Broadheath, England Father owned a music shop and tuned pianos- his music experiencePlayed many instruments and was self-taught composerTaught violin and played organ at St. George's Roman Catholic Church in Worcester In 1889 married Caroline Alice Roberts, one of pupilsImperial March, King Olaf, Caractacus, Pomp and Circumstance

Sir Edward Elgar

Pieces were being played in Europe and America by 1905

In WWI composed patriotic pieces

Practically lived in retirement in 1920s

Elgar suffered malignant tumor that pressed on sciatic nerve

Died on February 23, 1934

Pomp and Circumstance

Began as the trio section for Elgar’s March in D major Got name from lines in Othello:Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife,The royal banner, and all quality,Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!

Richard StraussBorn on June 11, 1864 in Munich, Germany Dad played the horn and Richard became experiencedComposed at age of 6Went to university, but had no education in musicIn 1885, became conductor of the Meiningen Orchestra While ill, wrote his first opera, Guntram in 1891-3Worked with Hofmannsthal on Der RosenkavalieIn 1930s, was head of State Music Bureau In WWII protected his daughter-in-lawDied in his Garmisch home in 1949.

Waltz from Der Rosenkavalier Suite

Includes: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, rattle, tambourine, harp, and strings

Sergei Prokofiev

Born in Sontsovka on April 23, 1891Showed talent as pianist and composer at 10In 1917, finished an opera on Dostoyevsky’s Gambler Wrote The Love for Three Oranges in 1919Other works: Romeo and Juliet, Peter and the Wolf, Alexander Nevsky, Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, CinderellaDied in 1953

Symphony No. 1 in D Major

Includes 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings.

Composed from 1916-1917

Dedicated to Boris Asafiev.

The movements in it are allegro, larghetto, gavotte: non troppo

Igor Stravinsky

Born in Lomonosov on June 17, 1882Son of a leading bass musician During Great War looked for refuge in SwitzerlandIn 1920s, avoided string instruments and did wind instrumentsSome works are L'Oiseau de Feu ,Deux poèmes, Petrushka, Deux poèmes, Le roi des étoiles, Le Sacre du Printemps, Trois poésies de la lyrique japonaise, Souvenir de mon enfanceDied in 1971

Pulcinella

Commissioned in 1919 by Sergei Diaghilev- helped raise Stravinsky’s reputation

Pulcinella was first in Igor’s era of neoclassicism

Popular Music

Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes

Jack known for writing the song “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”Nora was born in 1880 Is best known for introducing George M. Cohan's song, "Over There”Started stage career and her parents thought it was full of sin and damnationNora died on March 19, 1928

“Shine on, Harvest Moon”

Written in 1908

Irving Berlin

Born in Israel Berlin on May 1888First song was “Marie from Sunny Italy”How Deep Is the Ocean?, Blue Skies, White Christmas, Always, Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better, There's No Business Like Show Business, Cheek To Cheek, Puttin' On The Ritz, A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody, HeatwaveDied on September 22, 1989, when he was 101 sleeping in NYC

Alexander’s Ragtime Band

George M. Cohan

Born in Providence, Rhode Island  on July 3, 1878

Received little formal schooling but traveled with parents

Started as violinist, but later played with family in dance and sing act

Over There

Walter Donaldson

Born on February 15, 1893 in Brooklyn, New York

Son of piano teacher

Entertained troops at U.S army camps

Met Irving Berlin at Camp Upton

“Don’t Cry Frenchy”, “My Little Bimbo on a Bamboo Isle”, “Carolina in the Morning”

Walter died on July 15, 1947 in Santa Monica, California

How You Gonna Keep ‘em Down on the Farm

George and Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin born in New York City and attended Townsend Harris High School

George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn

Worked together on “The Man I love”

The Man I Love

Joseph Oliver

Started playing in New Orleans in 1908

Blinded in one eye

Returned to Chicago in 1922 and started King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band

Was teacher and mentor of Louis Armstrong

West End Blues

Recorded in June 1928

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Independent Research

“Von der Schonheit” from Das Lied von der Erde- #3Gustav Mahler“De l’aube a midi sur la mer” from La Mer- #4Claude DebussyL’histoire du soldat SuiteThe Royal March- #6The Little Concert- #7Igor StravinskyLe tombeau de CouperinMenuet- #8Toccata- #9Maurice RavelWalzer from Funf Klavierstucke, Op.23- #11Arnold SchoenbergInterlude from Wozzeck, Act III- #12Alban BergPrologue from Music for the Theatre- #13Aaron Copland

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