A nice little introduction to a bit of music history and theory as the author builds into a discussion of A tk j Dovrak's American Quartet (he doesn't quite get there, but will next week)
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Through a discussion of early American folk music, both African-American and white Appalachian, the pentatonic music scale, playground jump rope music, big budget westerns' film music, Paul Robeson, Marian Anderson, and the music of America's most successful early African-American composer, Harry Burleigh, who was also Dvorak's most successful student. We'll even have a little Mozart.
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recommended!
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