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Jazz Music: Annotated Bibliography

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1. What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong and Fleurette Africaine (Little Flower) by Duke Ellington.
2. Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington are two of the greatest geniuses contributing to the development of jazz music. Both pieces symbolize the civil rights struggle that was part of the changing America, which Armstrong and Ellington lived in. The dynamic of both pieces is moderate, not very loud; and both pieces also have a polyphonic texture, because there are two or more melodic lines being performed simultaneously.
3. Ellington was one of the leading pianists in jazz and Armstrong was the ultimate source of scat singing and jazz vocalizing. What a Wonderful World by Armstrong has a slow tempo throughout and the tempo of Fleurette Africaine
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