Music: From Popular to Concert Stage

Series: Uses of Music Series

Duration: 0:14:00

Year Published: 1969

Creator: Communications Group West

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Copyright: Registered 3Nov69 · LP37492 (Jan-Jun 1970) Copyright holder: Communications Group West/Hollywood

Description: Illustrates how folk and popular music have affected classical music and were adapted to a classical style. Presents the form of the minuet and waltzes, the influence of jazz and ragtime on popular music, and the adaptation of popular music to classical. Proposes that popular music of the past becomes concert music of the present. Features a piano quartet playing examples of the music cited, and points out the musical instruments comprising such a quartet.

Complete Record: , Illustrates how folk and popular music have affected classical music and were adapted to a classical style. Presents the form of the minuet and waltzes, the influence of jazz and ragtime on popular music, and the adaptation of popular music to classical. Proposes that popular music of the past becomes concert music of the present. Features a piano quartet playing examples of the music cited, and points out the musical instruments comprising such a quartet.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.