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Semester Project – Biography, Composition History, and Listening Guide

Semester Project – Biography, Composition History, and Listening Guide. By Jacob Stewart Introduction to Music 1010 Craig E. Ferrin , Ph.D. Outline. George Gershwin Biography The History Of “Rhapsody in Blue” “Rhapsody in Blue” Listening Guide Bibliography. George Gershwin Biography.

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Semester Project – Biography, Composition History, and Listening Guide

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  1. Semester Project – Biography,Composition History, andListening Guide By Jacob Stewart Introduction to Music 1010 Craig E. Ferrin, Ph.D.

  2. Outline • George Gershwin Biography • The History Of “Rhapsody in Blue” • “Rhapsody in Blue” Listening Guide • Bibliography

  3. George Gershwin Biography Jacob Gershwine (George Gershwin) September 2, 1898 Moshe Gershovitz & Rose Bruskin (Parents)

  4. “I have a new pupil who will make his mark if anybody will. The boy is a genius!” – Charles Hambitzer

  5. George “Song Plugger” Gershwin

  6. Gershwin’s First Published Song - Earned Him $5

  7. First Complete Broadway Musical Over 2 Million Records Sold

  8. George Gershwin (left) with his brother Ira Gershwin (right)

  9. 1931 Pulitzer Prize For Dramas

  10. Rhapsody in Blue

  11. First large-scale piece written without piano

  12. Works Written For Broadway

  13. Starring Fred Astaire & Joan Fontaine Starring Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers

  14. Cedars of Lebanon Hospital (where Gershwin was admitted)

  15. George Gershwin 1898- 1937

  16. George Gershwin

  17. The History of“Rhapsody in Blue”

  18. “It was on the train, with its steely rhythms, its rattle-ty bang, that is so often so stimulating to a composer – I frequently hear music in the very heart of the noise... And there I suddenly heard, and even saw on paper – the complete construction of the Rhapsody, from beginning to end.” -Gershwin

  19. Hastiness Begets Greatness!

  20. “Rhapsody in Blue”Listening Guide

  21. Theme A Theme A • Piano A • Theme B • Piano B • Theme C • Piano C • Recap

  22. Piano A • Theme A • Piano A • Theme B • Piano B • Theme C • Piano C • Coda/ Recap

  23. Theme B • Theme A • Piano A • Theme B • Piano B • Theme C • Piano C • Coda/ Recap

  24. Piano B • Theme A • Piano A • Theme B • Piano B • Theme C • Piano C • Coda/ Recap

  25. Theme C • Theme A • Piano A • Theme B • Piano B • Theme C • Piano C • Coda/ Recap

  26. Piano C • Theme A • Piano A • Theme B • Piano B • Theme C • Piano C • Coda/ Recap

  27. Coda/Recap of Theme A & B • Theme A • Piano A • Theme B • Piano B • Theme C • Piano C • Coda/ Recap

  28. “Rhapsody in Blue”Listening Guide

  29. Bibliography

  30. THE END

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