Music in New York

Music in historycal facts

In the first 100 years after the establishment of new york no music was popular

Maybe Church service were with music

1742 the first Organ was in NY

21.01.1736 was the first publicly concert

songs were with Harpsichord, Flute, Violin

1750 the first Opera in the Nassau Street

1753 the first Choral in the Trinity Church

1825 italian and german Operas in Original for example Rossini and Mozart

Musical

in the middle of the 19 century H.F. Gilbert und Sullivans Operettas on the Broadway

very popular

since 1890 "Musical Comedy" was more popular

in the theatres on the broadway came a more standardizes musical

songs of these Dramatic work became hits in the USA

works from european Composers ,for example VERMON DUKE were very popular

in the early 20 century these composers made the big part of the entertainment music

durch Zusammenarbeit von R.Rogers und Osacr Hammerskin II entstand nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg eine Reihe von Musicals

for example Oklahoma, The King and other

after 1950 the musicals became a denser concentration

by arising COUNTRYMUSIC, RAP, Rock'n'Roll determined musical no longer the American music scene

Musicals were no longer popular,cause of the cinema and the tv

Musicals became more expensive

Some rescued them selves onto the Broadway

Since 1980 american Musicals were displaced by british ones

Jazz

In the 20th century most of the black population lived in Harlem

Black Artists and composers were used increase the musical productions

Since 1925 center for Jazz Music

Harry Pac founded the BLACK SWAM CORPORATION in 1921

First afro-american Music-Label

There were white Jazz-Musicians,too

These were most in Radio or Music-Studios

Activists in the white scene were JimmyyDorsey,Dummy Godmun,Glen Miller

Most popular black Orchestra was the band of the pianoplayer Fletcher henderson, these brought 1924 LOUIS ARMSTRONG to NY

Black artists played mostly in the Colton Clib

Colton Club wanted to bring an expressure of the black exotic culture to the guests

Black peoples as guest were reluctantly seen

1930 was a meeting of these artists

1930 there was Splitting of the Jazzscene

one part were bigbands in big clubs, the other part were little artists playing in little nightclubs

1950 there was a cabarett law

Licenses for Live music were assigned only under certain conditions

Now only little bands with Retort bass and piano were playing

Rap and pop-musc

Songwriter such as Doc Pomus, Jerry Lieber and so on created hits, those were important. for the Charts of the Popmusik

These animated folkmusic to new success

RAP

resulted from that meet one another several ethnical groups

it was inventet at streetparties in the south bronx

the big part of the afroamerican and hispanic population and immigrants from the carribean islands lived there

rap is from the technic of the rapping

diskjokeys put records with funk and discomusic on

and played only the danceable rhytmic parts ab

they moved the turntable neel from one part of the record to antoher on

or they switched fromm one turntable to a second one

these and other ones invented the rhytmic Speech singing with heavy social critic lyrics

1981 the Sugarhill Gang (a NY-Rapper-Group) brought their first record on the market

then more and more records were on the market, the most popular one wa GRANDMASTER FLASH (jetzt das Tape an)

NY is untill now the centre of RAP on tha Estcoast