In this pathbreaking book, Allen Forte uses modern analytical procedures
to explore the large repertoire of beautiful love songs written during
the heyday of American musical theater, the Big Bands, and Tin Pan
Alley. Covering the work of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Irving
Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Harold
Arlen, he seeks to illuminate this extraordinary music indigenous to
America by revealing its deeper organizational characteristics. In so
doing, he aims to establish it as a unique corpus of music that
deserves more intensive study and appreciation by scholars and
connoisseurs in the broader fields of American popular music and
jazz.
Expressing much of the traditional tonality associated
with European music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the
love songs of the Golden Age are shown to draw on a rich variety of
elements--popular harmony, idiomatic lyric-writing, and Afro-American
dance rhythms. His analyses of such songs as "Embraceable You" or
"Yesterdays" in particular exemplify his ability to convey the
sublime, unpretentious simplicity of this great music.
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