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Homage To Eleanora: A Musical Journey Through The Billie Holiday Songbook, Keith A. Dames
Homage To Eleanora: A Musical Journey Through The Billie Holiday Songbook, Keith A. Dames
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Billie Holiday was a singer, songwriter, vocalist, bandleader and composer in the fields of music, black culture and more specifically the genre of jazz. The primary focus of this study is Billie Holiday’s discography, music, and compositions as treated in relation to the black culture of production. This study will explore a secondary content analysis of Billie Holiday’s music, musicianship, musicality and compositional skills within the American jazz mainstream, broader jazz audience and world at large. This project will take an analytical look at the structure and form of the compositions of Billie Holiday. Billie Holiday is credited with composing …
A Song Through Time: Tiger Rag And The Twentieth Century, Thomas Grady Hartsock
A Song Through Time: Tiger Rag And The Twentieth Century, Thomas Grady Hartsock
Music
Tiger Rag is one of the first recorded jazz works.This project investigates the initial creation of the work and follows it through five different artists in the twentieth century to explain how this piece of music has grown in it's hundred years of life.