American Music

Traditional Shape-Note Hymn

Foster’s “Beautiful Dreamer”

“Dixie”

Bessie Smith

Ragtime Composer Scott Joplin

Fillmore's "Lassus Trombone"

Beach’s Suite for Two Pianos

Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes Forever”

Jazz Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke

Jazz Cornetist "King" Joe Oliver

Barber’s Adagio for Strings

Louis Armstrong

Jazz Pianist Jelly Roll Morton

Aaron Copland

George Gershwin

Jazz Bandleader Fletcher Henderson

Jazz Composer Duke Ellington

Varèse’s Ionisation

Berlin’s “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”

Blues Singer Koko Taylor

Frank Sinatra

Cowell’s Hymn and Fuguing Tune

Partch’s Yankee Doodle Fantasy

Woody Guthrie

Bluegrass Music: Bill Monroe

Jazz Saxophonist John Coltrane

Early Rock and Roll: Little Richard

Bob Dylan

Pete Seeger Sings “Little Boxes”

Sessions’s Symphony No. 5

Crumb’s Songs, Drones, and Refrains of Death

Carter’s “In Sleep, in Thunder”

Glass’s “Closing”