Modern Music in America | Music Arts Toolkit

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Keywords
Modern America music George Gershwin Aaron Copland blues jazz piano
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The Arts
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Modern Music in America | Music Arts Toolkit

Pianist and Kentucky Wesleyan College music professor Dr. Diane Earle discusses the influences of blues and jazz on 20th century American composers George Gershwin and Aaron Copland. She performs Gershwin’s “I Got Rhythm” and “Embraceable You” and the first movement of Copland’s “Four Piano Blues.”

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PBS Learning Media

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