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Author | : John Franceschina |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2017-07-06 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0786450266 |
Duke Ellington's son Mercer has said that his father was frustrated in only one area of musical ambition: his desire to do his own Broadway show. Though Ellington wrote many theatrical pieces, he was never able to achieve success as a composer for the stage, and today his stage shows receive little attention from music historians. Nevertheless, these works occupied a significant place in Ellington's creative imagination, and many of the ideas he employed in their composition found their way into his other work. Here is the first book to acknowledge Duke Ellington's contribution to the stage. It offers a survey of every theater piece Ellington is known to have worked on during his lifetime, beginning with the 1925 revue The Chocolate Kiddies and ending with the unfinished "street opera" Queenie Pie. This large body of work includes full-length musicals, African American revues, ballets, and incidental music. The plot of each work is described and the score analyzed according to its dramatic function in the piece. Musical phrases are reproduced in the text, and associations with other well-known Ellington compositions are noted. An appendix provides a chronological listing of Ellington's shows with song titles conveniently listed under each.
Author | : Edward Green |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2015-01-08 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1316194132 |
Duke Ellington is widely held to be the greatest jazz composer and one of the most significant cultural icons of the twentieth century. This comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to survey, in depth, Ellington's career, music, and place in popular culture. An international cast of authors includes renowned scholars, critics, composers, and jazz musicians. Organized in three parts, the Companion first sets Ellington's life and work in context, providing new information about his formative years, method of composing, interactions with other musicians, and activities abroad; its second part gives a complete artistic biography of Ellington; and the final section is a series of specific musical studies, including chapters on Ellington and song-writing, the jazz piano, descriptive music, and the blues. Featuring a chronology of the composer's life and major recordings, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Ellington's enduring artistic legacy.
Author | : Carin T. Ford |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishers, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2007-06-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780766027022 |
Discusses the life and work of Duke Ellington, who remains one of the most influential jazz composers, pianists, and band leaders.
Author | : Duke Ellington |
Publisher | : String Letter Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2010-12 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781890490614 |
(String Letter Publishing). Turn your orchestra into a big band for the night with Duke Ellington's swing classics. The loping bass line, the sinewy horn parts, and the intricate harmonies of "Echoes of Harlem" are translated into an artful arrangement for string orchestra. The warm, chocolaty tones of the viola really shine in this piece. In this delightful rendition of "I'm Just a Lucky So and So," the violist plays the saxophone and trombone parts while the second violinist sings. The lighthearted song has been recorded by everyone from Tony Bennett to Ella Fitzgerald to Diana Krall.
Author | : Duke Ellington |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2009-03-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1476876088 |
(Piano Solo Songbook). Exciting solo piano arrangements with chord names of 23 beloved Duke Ellington songs, including: C-Jam Blues * Caravan * Come Sunday * Dancers in Love * Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * 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 * In a Mellow Tone * In a Sentimental Mood * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me) * Love You Madly * Mood Indigo * Perdido * Prelude to a Kiss * Satin Doll * Solitude * Sophisticated Lady * Take the "A" Train * Things Ain't What They Used to Be.
Author | : W. E. Timner |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 684 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0585040842 |
More than a discography, this book compiles the complete recorded music of Duke Ellington and his sidemen, including studio recordings, movie soundtracks, concerts, dance dates, radio broadcasts, telecasts, and private recordings, creating an easy to use reference source for Jazz collectors and scholars.
Author | : Terry Teachout |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2013-10-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0698138589 |
A major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was the greatest jazz composer of the twentieth century—and an impenetrably enigmatic personality whom no one, not even his closest friends, claimed to understand. The grandson of a slave, he dropped out of high school to become one of the world’s most famous musicians, a showman of incomparable suavity who was as comfortable in Carnegie Hall as in the nightclubs where he honed his style. He wrote some fifteen hundred compositions, many of which, like “Mood Indigo” and “Sophisticated Lady,” remain beloved standards, and he sought inspiration in an endless string of transient lovers, concealing his inner self behind a smiling mask of flowery language and ironic charm. As the biographer of Louis Armstrong, Terry Teachout is uniquely qualified to tell the story of the public and private lives of Duke Ellington. A semi-finalist for the National Book Award, Duke peels away countless layers of Ellington’s evasion and public deception to tell the unvarnished truth about the creative genius who inspired Miles Davis to say, “All the musicians should get together one certain day and get down on their knees and thank Duke.”
Author | : Duke Ellington |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1976-02-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Not a chronological autobiography, but an organized set of eight acts, each of which is driven by entertaining annecdotes about the many people who colored the life of this jazz great. Lists more than 1,500 of Ellington's compositions.
Author | : Mark Tucker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780195093919 |
A collection of writings by and about Duke Ellington and his place in jazz history.
Author | : Klaus Stratemann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 798 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Jazz musicians |
ISBN | : |