American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950

Name: American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950
Author: Alec Wilder
ISBN: 9780190053024

Alec Wilder

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American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950

Alec Wilder

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Composer Alec Wilder's American Popular: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 discusses some 800 songs from the American Songbook, offering a composer's insight, acceccible music analysis, as well has his strong personal biases. Nearly fifty years later, this classic study has received a much-needed revision. While leaving Wilder's colorful prose and brazen opinions intact, language, style, and musical nomenclature have been updated to reflect current usage. The musical examples mostly remain, but piano score has been replaced with lead-sheet notation: melody, chords, and lyrics. Rhythmic notation has also been adjusted to follow present-day norms. Additionally, a final chapter has been added, which includes more than fifty songs that were not in the original, seeking to achieve greater representation for women and African American composers, as well as including several of Wilder's own songs.

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