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Table of Contents: “…Delicious and the Second rhapsody (1931) -- Of thee I sing (1931) -- George Gershwin's song-book (1932) -- The Cuban overture (1932) and Pardon my English (1933) -- Let 'em eat cake (1933) and Variations on "I got rhythm" (1934) -- Porgy and Bess (1935) -- The first production of Porgy and Bess -- Porgy and Bess in revival -- Porgy and Bess on disc, film, and the concert stage -- From Swing is king (1936) to A damsel in distress (1937) -- From The Goldwyn follies (1938) to Kiss me, stupid (1964) -- Conclusion.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Crossing Over with George Gershwin, Paul Whiteman, and the Modernists --…”

Table of Contents: “…Antonin Dvořák comes to America -- America and Negro music -- Dvořák's symphony "From the New World" -- The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 -- The National Conservatory of Music of America -- Paul Laurence Dunbar, Clorilindy, and "The talented tenth" -- James Reese Europe -- George Gershwin and African American music -- Leonard Bernstein -- Gershwin's "Rhapsody in blue" -- The Clef Club concert -- Will Marion Cook -- George Antheil's "Ballet mécanique" -- Bernstein's Mass -- Duke Ellington -- Ellington's "Queenie pie" -- Ellington's "Black, brown and beige."…”

Table of Contents: “…Cosmopolitan and provincial : American musical historiography -- Professions and patronage I : teaching and composing -- Professions and patronage II : performing -- William Billings (1746-1800) and American psalmody : a study of musical dissemination -- George Frederick Root (1820-1895) and American vocal music -- Duke Ellington (1899-1974) and his orchestra -- George Gershwin's "I got rhythm" (1930).…”
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Table of Contents: “…Leo Ornstein ; Edgard Varèse ; Carl Ruggles ; Dane Rudhyar ; Charles Seeger ; Henry Cowell -- On the jazz age and George Gershwin -- With a French accent : Nadia Boulanger -- From the Boulangerie. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Constantin Brancusi -- Beverly Cleary -- Julie Dash -- Jules Feiffer -- Helen Frankenthaler -- George Gershwin -- Spalding Gray -- Brenda Hampton -- Janet Hickman -- John Irving -- Garrison Keillor -- Chip Kidd -- Kathe Kollwitz -- Milan Kundera -- Gary Larson -- Penny Marshall -- Terrence McNally -- Lorne Michaels -- Czeslaw Milosz -- Carl Sagan -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- John Saul -- Rumiko Takahashi -- Victor Vasarely -- E.B. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Antonin Dvořák comes to America -- America and Negro music -- Dvořák's symphony "From the New World" -- The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 -- The National Conservatory of Music of America -- Paul Laurence Dunbar, Clorilindy, and "The talented tenth" -- James Reese Europe -- George Gershwin and African American music -- Leonard Bernstein -- Gershwin's "Rhapsody in blue" -- The Clef Club concert -- Will Marion Cook -- George Antheil's "Ballet mécanique" -- Bernstein's Mass -- Duke Ellington -- Ellington's "Queenie pie" -- Ellington's "Black, brown and beige".…”
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Table of Contents: “…Tonality as drama: an introduction -- Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives -- Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama -- The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911) -- The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935) -- The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947) -- The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).…”
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Table of Contents: “…Tonality as drama: an introduction -- Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives -- Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama -- The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911) -- The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935) -- The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947) -- The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).…”
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Table of Contents: “…The red priest: Antonio Vivaldi -- Twenty children and 1,200 compositions: Johann Sebastian Bach -- No ordinary baby: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Moodiness and moonlight: Ludwig van Beethoven -- "My dear corpse": Frédéric Chopin -- A successful farmer and opera-composer: Giuseppe Verdi -- A different white dress every night: Clara Schumann -- Dear friends and gentle hearts: Stephen Foster -- The checked cotton underwear of Johannes Brahms -- Pulsing and quivering: Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky -- Topsy-turvydom: William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan -- Velvet gentleman: Erik Satie -- The entertainer: Scott Joplin -- He stretched our ears: Charles Ives -- Standing on his head: Igor Stravinsky -- Tender Tyrant: Nadia Boulanger -- Full of splinters: Sergei Prokofiev -- "Great, isn't it?": George Gershwin -- Traveling troubadour: Woody Guthrie.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Gilbert -- Epilogue from Essays before a Sonata / Charles Ives -- The dilemma of American music / Daniel Gregory Mason -- New musical resources / Henry Cowell -- The composer in the machine age / George Gershwin -- Problems of American composers / Roy Harris -- Jazz music comes from New Orleans / Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton -- Composer from Brooklyn / Aaron Copland -- How composers eat / Virgil Thomson -- Freedom for music / Edgard Varese -- American musical tendencies / Harry Partch -- Stravinsky and the younger American composers / Arthur Berger -- The future in the form of jazz / Gunther Schuller -- Experimental music / John Cage -- Who cares if you listen? …”

Table of Contents: “…Johnson ; Don Redman ; Will Marion Cook ; Will Vodery ; Charles Shribman ; Chick Webb ; Count Basie ; Lonnie Johnson ; Maceo Pinkard ; Paul Whiteman ; Luckeyeth Roberts ; George Gershwin ; Bubber Miley ; Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton ; Freddy Guy ; Harry Carney ; Barney Bigard and Wellman Braud ; Johnny Hodges ; Cootie Williams ; Freddy Jenkins ; Lawrence Brown ; Ivie Anderson ; Rex Stewart ; Richard Bowden Jones.…”

Table of Contents: “…Musical styles : 1900-1945 ; Music and musicians in society ; Impressionism and symbolism ; Claude Debussy ; Maurice Ravel ; Neoclassicism ; Igor Stravinsky ; Expressionism ; Arnold Schoenberg ; Alban Berg ; Anton Webern ; Béla Bartók ; Dmitri Shostakovich ; Charles Ives ; George Gershwin ; William Grant Still ; Aaron Copland ; Alberto Ginastera ; Musical styles since 1945 ; Music since 1945 : eight representative pieces -- Jazz. …”

Table of Contents: “…The influence of jazz and blues ; George Gershwin, Piano prelude no. 1 ; Leonard Bernstein, West Side story ; 5. …”

Table of Contents: “…Alec Wilder writes lovingly about Jerome Kern -- 82. George Gershwin explains that "Jazz is the voice of the American soul" -- 83. …”