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- 21: Jazz
- ... demonstrated that jazz improvisation could go far beyond simply ornamenting the melody. Armstrong was one of the first jazz musicians to refine a rhythmic conception that abandoned the stiffness of ragtime, employed swing light-note patterns, and he used a technique called "rhythmic displacement." Rhythmic displacement was sometimes staggering the placement of an entire phrase, as though he were playing behind ...
- 22: Duke Ellington
- ... show a flare for the artistic. Duke attended Armstrong Manual Training School to study commercial art instead of an academically-oriented school. Duke began to seek out and listen to ragtime pianists in Washington and during the summers, where he and his mother vacationed in Philadelphia or Atlantic City. While vacationing in Asbury Park, Duke heard of a hot pianist named ...
- 23: Nineteenth Century
- ... of the Century, the most popular kind of music was the kind played in Tin Pan Alley. Musical Comedy Skits were preformed on pianos the artists called tin pans. Also, Ragtime was also invented in the Nineteenth Century. Most families in the Nineteenth Century were made of a husband and a wife, and their children. Until the Civil War, most homes ...
- 24: Ellis Island
- ... America. Irving Berlin, songwriter extraordinary, was born in Temun, Siberia. He came to the U.S. in 1893. Without any music training he composed such popular classics like "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "Easter Parade". The great Notre Dame football coach, Knute Rockne arrived in 1893 from Norway. A year later Felix Frankfuter arrived from Vienna. He later became a professor ...
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