MusicSmiles.com
The Worlds of Gilbert and Sullivan

American Influences
Home Scott Joplin George Gershwin Carrie J Bond John Philip Sousa Jazz Negro Spirituals

 

Up
Absent Friends!
George Grossmith
American Influences
G F Handel
Gioacchino Rossini
Tennyson

 

This rapidly developing and thriving 'New World' of some fifty million people at the time of G&S, developed music which not only received its inspiration from Europe, but also from its native and coloured populations.

Here are a few examples of the wealth of older and newer forms of American music, which were having a significant effect on all musicians who heard them at the time, and still influences Western and Eastern Music.

 

Let's have a brief session with Scott Joplin . . .


To search for an article in our special MusicSmiles Contents table

< < < Click Wise Owl's book < < < 

 

If you quote or print anything from this Web-site please add a link to MusicSmiles.com in your Web-site. Thanks.

© Music arranged and 'performed' by Dr J Eric Ashton

Copyright © Dr J Eric Ashton 27 September 2010 . All Rights Reserved.

This site was last updated on 27 September 2010 .

 

( Click number to view statistics > > >). Scribe thanks all our  223,547 MusicSmiles visitors up to beginning of September, 2010. 

You may find our special effects work best with Microsoft Internet Explorer