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Emily Swartzwelder
Assignment 6
Spring 2015
songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the
late 19th century and early 20th century.
Jazz heavily influenced Copland, Gershwins attempt at making a lady out
of Jazz was Rhapsody in Blue, Gershwin attempted the first jazz-oriented
folk opera (Porgy and Bess), its the sexy and erotic genre
Blue notes - a note thatfor expressive purposesis sung or played at a