MUS 333 - Events since 1914

By ashleyrosec

  • World War I

    1914-1918

  • Great Migration

    ~1915-1970

  • Wozzek, Act III, Scenes 2 & 3

    Alban Berg (1917-22)

  • First Jazz Recording

    Dixieland; white men taking credit for jazz...but jazz musicians also inspired by recording

  • Harlem Renaissance

    1920-1935

  • Piano Suite, Op. 25

    Arnold Schoenberg
    (1921-23)

  • "Back Water Blues"

    Bessie Smith

  • "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer: Prelude" from Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera)

    Kurt Weill

  • "West End Blues"

    "King Oliver" [Joe Oliver], as performed by Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five

  • Great Depression

    1929-1939

  • Afro-American Symphony, mvt 1, Moderato assai

    William Grant Still

  • Symphony of Psalms: First mvt. (Choral symphony)

    Igor Stravinky

  • String Quartet 1931

    Ruth Crawford Seeger

  • You Let Me Down

    Billie Holiday

  • Symphony No. 5, Op. 47: Second mvt., Allegretto

    Dmitri Shostakovich

  • A Sailboat in the Moonlight

    Billie Holiday

  • Bachianas Brasileiras No.5: No.1, "Aria (Cantilena)"

    Heitor Villa-Lobos

  • World War II

    1939-1945

  • "Cotton Tail"

    Duke Ellington

  • Quartet for the End of Time, mvmt. 1: "Liturgie de cristal"

    Olivia Messiaen (1940-41)

  • The Unanswered Question

    Charles Ives; originally composed 1906; revised 1930-35; published 1941

  • Symphony No. 7, mvmt 1

    Dmitri Shostakovich (premiered 1942)

  • "Black" from Black, Brown, and Beige

    Duke Ellington, performance in Carnegie Hall

  • Anthropology

    Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie (Bebop)

  • Piano Concerto No. 3, mvmt. 1

    Bela Bartók

  • Appalachian Spring, Excerpt with Variations on 'Tis the Gift to Be Simple

    Aaron Copland

  • Cold War

    1947-1989

  • Midnight at the Barrelhouse

    Johnny Otis

  • Tempus Fugit (or Fugue-it)

    Bud Powell

  • Korean War

    1950-1953

  • Listen to the Lambs

    The Golden Gate Quartet

  • Civil Right's Movement

    1954-1968

  • Vietnam War

    1955-1975

  • Blue in Green

    Miles Davis with Bill Evans

  • Giant Steps

    John Coltrane

  • Free Jazz, Pt. 1

    Ornette Coleman

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have a Dream" Speech

  • Lonely Lonely Nights

    Julian Herrera

  • Mississippi Goddam

    Nina Simone

  • Philomel

    Milton Babbit

  • Rapid Shave

    Stanley Turrentine and Shirley Scott

  • A Love Supreme: Pslam

    John Coltrane

  • Watt's Rebellion

  • Raga Piloo

    Ravi Shankar/Yehudi Menuhin
    West Meets East, vol. 2

  • Piano Phase

    Steve Reich

  • Star-Spangled Banner

    Jimi Hendrix: Winterland (1968); Record Planet (1968); Woodstock (1969)

  • First Person on the Moon

  • Concerto Grosso No. 1, mvt. 2, Toccata

    Alfred Schnittke

  • Iranian Revolution

  • Zimbabwe gains independence

  • Rejoice! Sonata for Violin and Violoncello, mvmt. 5: "Listen to the small still voice within"

    Sofia Gubaidulina

  • Te Deum

    Arvo Pärt

  • Fight the Power

    Public Enemy

  • Seven Tunes Heard in China, for solo cello, No. 1, "Seasons"

    Bright Sheng

  • The Silk Road Ensemble is founded

  • La Pasión según San Marcos, Nos. 24, 25, and 26

    Osvaldo Golijov

  • blue cathedral, opening excerpt

    Jennifer Higdon

  • Ken Burn's Jazz

  • Doctor Atomic, Act 1 conclusion, "Batter my heart"

    John Adams

  • The Return of the Kung Fu World Champion

    Hiromi Trio

  • Peace Power Change

    José James

  • Raga Piloo

    Anoushka Shankar and Patricia Kopatchinskaja

  • Formation

    Beyoncé

  • The Transformations Suite: Momentum, Pt. 2

    Samora Pinderhughes

  • This is America

    Childish Gambino