Chapter 9

CW9.2 – More on Civil War Music

See one of our textbook author’s book, Music of the Civil War, by Steven Cornelius, (Greenwood Publishing Group) 2004.

• Here is a brief discussion from the Library of Congress about Civil War bands
• Here is a link about Civil War songs from North and South

• https://www.history.com/news/civil-war-music-influence

• https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/resources-for-educators/classroom-resources/media-and-interactives/media/music/music-of-the-civil-war/

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See also: Steven Cornelius, Music of the Civil War Era, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004.

CW9.3 – Ghost Dance Songs

• Recordings
• The Lakota Ghost Dance and the Massacre at Wounded Knee
• The Ghost Dance Movement
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CW9.4 – Brundibár, children’s opera

• https://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/theresienstadt/brundibar/

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhIJ664MQro

• Rikle Glezer
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CW9.5 – Britten, War Requiem

• https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2012/05/29/153925220/brittens-war-requiem-50-years-on-still-as-harrowing-as-ever

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CW9.6 – Penderecki, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima

• https://music7703lsu.wordpress.com/2017/05/02/threnody-for-the-victims-of-hiroshima-for-52-strings-by-krzysztof-penderecki/

• Watch this video and follow the music with the score. What do you notice about how the sounds are notated?
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