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 * Culture of World War One. **
 * It might have been a bad war, but at least it had good music. **

"Music during World War I was often used to inspire passion and voluntary compliance in the listeners [from countries involved with the great war] and, occasionally, shame in those who didn't support the war"


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Throughout history, it is observed that styles and pieces of music and art is greatly influenced by key events at the time. It is no exception that European and American artists were creating work in new styles and ways because of the events of World War One. Though there are hundreds of famous artists who painted, drew, and composed new work influenced by the war, there are many whose work remained unphased by the war.

May 2nd 1915, first published snapshot of the battle.


 * Some Notes**

Wide spread publishing of propaganda through cartoons and newspapers. Insightful art, effected view of the war. Cinema, writing, cartoons, painting, patriotic songs, Propaganda through music Pop music Classical
 * Propaganda – on sheet music
 * Cheery
 * Entertaining
 * Inspiring for troops
 * Comforting for families
 * Much more produced with high demand for patriotism
 * England, America with songs
 * Widely distributed sheet music
 * Some composers unmoved by war, evident with Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony No. 1
 * Maurice Ravel – composed a piece for a soldier missing an arm.
 * Denmark’s Carl Nielson – deeply affected though Denmark was neutral. Symphony No. 4: //The Inextinguishable// reflects his hopes for the war.
 * England’s Edward Elgar felt “the war signaled the end of the world he knew and composed for.”
 * Laurence Binyon’s poems (//For the Fallen//). Heartfelt and beautiful.
 * Somber Cello Concerto by Elgar.
 * Great losses for English music: George Butterworth, promising young composer, killed in 1916. Seemed to anticipate his battlefield death in his earlier work. “the lads that will die in their glory and never be old.”

"Dulce et decorum est"
 * __Memorial Day__**

The bugle echoes shrill and sweet, But not of war it sings to-day. The road is rhythmic with the feet Of men-at-arms who come to pray.

The roses blossom white and red On tombs where weary soldiers lie; Flags wave above the honored dead And martial music cleaves the sky.

Above their wreath-strewn graves we kneel, They kept the faith and fought the fight. Through flying lead and crimson steel They plunged for Freedom and the Right.

May we, their grateful children, learn Their strength, who lie beneath this sod, Who went through fire and death to earn At last the accolade of God.

In shining rank on rank arrayed They march, the legions of the Lord; He is their Captain unafraid, The Prince of Peace. . . Who brought a sword. //(‘Memorial Day’ by Joyce Kilmer, written before he went off to seas in the war.)//

Gertrude Stein
 * A german-jewish women who spent most of her childhood in Vienna and Paris.
 * She collected famous artwork during ww1.
 * She wrote poetry, and bookses.



Listen to one of the most popular patriotic tune from World War 1. media type="file" key="Billy_Murray_-_Over_There.mp3" width="240" height="20" OVER THERE!


 * Script**


 * Works Cited**

Carl Nielsen. "Symphony No. 4: The Inextinguishable Op. 49 FS 76." Cond. Herbert Blomsted. Perf. San Fransisco Symphony Orchestra. 1916. MP3.

"First World War.com - Vintage Audio - Over There." //First World War.com - A Multimedia History of World War One//. Web. 16 Feb. 2011. .

"The Battlefield." //1914-18 War - Art of the First World War//. Web. 16 Feb. 2011. .

"Poetry of the First World War: American Poets." //SCUTTLEBUTT & SMALL CHOW: A SALTY OLD HARBOR OF MARINE CORPS HISTORY//. Web. 16 Feb. 2011. .

"Music As Propaganda In World War I." //Parlor Songs Historical American Sheet Music Collection. Articles about America's Tin Pan Alley Music and Music History.// Web. 16 Feb. 2011. .

Cavendish, Marshall. "Portraying the War and the Arts." //History of WWI: Home Fronts/Technologies of the War//. 3. New York, NY: 2002. Print.