Rainbow world. So, we handed down. Hand it down. We can hand down our songs, which still hang on to hope. Today, we pay tribute to yip harburg. He put the rainbow in the wizard of oz, all of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, i am amy goodman. His name may not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world, like jazz singer Abbey Lincoln and bing crosby sang it. I built a railroad with time and i built a railroad and now it is done dime . R, can you spare a and tom waits. Judy collins, and dr. John from new orleans, peter yarrow, that . S al jolson, and our beloved odetta. Brother, can you spare a dime . . It may well be a new anthem for many americans. The lyrics to that classic american song were written by yip harburg. He was blacklisted during the mccarthy era. During his career as a lyricist, yip harburg used his words to express antiracist, proworker messages. He . S best known for writing the lyrics to . The wizard of oz, . But he also
He always has a little great ending on the end of each of his songs. And he got hooked on w. S. Gilbert, the bab ballads. And then, when he went to townsend high school, they had them sitting in the seats by alphabetical order, so yip was h and gershwin was g, so ira sat next to yip. One day, yip walked in with the bab ballads, and ira, who was very shy and hardly spoke with anybody, just suddenly lit up and said, do you like those . And they got into a conversation, and ira then said, do you know theres music to that . And yip said, no. He said, well, come on home. So they went to iras home, which was on 2nd avenue and 5th street which is sort of upper from yips poverty at 11th and c. And they had a victrola, which is like having, you know, huge instruments today, and played him h. M. S. Pinafore. Well, yip was just absolutely flabbergasted, knocked out. And that did it. I mean, for the both of them, because ira was intensely interested that thing, too. That began their lifelong frien
Rainbow world. So, we handed down. Hand it down. We can hand down our songs, which still hang on to hope. Today, we pay tribute to yip harburg. He put the rainbow in the wizard of oz, all of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, i am amy goodman. His name may not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world, like jazz singer Abbey Lincoln and bing crosby sang it. I built a railroad with time and i built a railroad and now it is done dime . R, can you spare a and tom waits. Judy collins, and dr. John from new orleans, peter yarrow, that . S al jolson, and our beloved odetta. Brother, can you spare a dime . . It may well be a new anthem for many americans. The lyrics to that classic american song were written by yip harburg. He was blacklisted during the mccarthy era. During his career as a lyricist, yip harburg used his words to express antiracist, proworker messages. He . S best known for writing the lyrics to . The wizard of oz, . But he also
That are in love with each other. [low hum and sticks clacking] [cultural music montage] narrator all over the world with instruments and voice, people create an uncountable number of melodies in an enormous variety of styles. The methods in which a musical culture generates its melodic forms depend on the musical rules and practices of that culture. These rules are employed by composers and performers, and are implicitly understood by listeners as well. That baby boy i never saw before. narrator but at the basis of all melodic form is the concept of vibrational frequency or pitch. [low, airy pipe plays] man pitch is the highness or lowness of the sound. Its a matter of how many vibrations per second form the fundamental frequency of the sound. For the musician, of course, the pitch at least in the western vocabulary, are the 12 pitches of the octave divided up, and heres a chromatic scale, and thats all we have each of those pitches or pitch classes from c to c is reproduced in every
[spirited violin plays] melody, i define it as a group of notes that are in love with each other. [low hum and sticks clacking] [cultural music montage] narrator all over the world with instruments and voice, people create an uncountable number of melodies in an enormous variety of styles. The methods in which a musical culture generates its melodic forms depend on the musical rules and practices of that culture. These rules are employed by composers and performers, and are implicitly understood by listeners as well. That baby boy i never saw before. narrator but at the basis of all melodic form is the concept of vibrational frequency or pitch. [low, airy pipe plays] man pitch is the highness or lowness of the sound. Its a matter of how many vibrations per second form the fundamental frequency of the sound. For the musician, of course, the pitch at least in the western vocabulary, are the 12 pitches of the octave divided up, and heres a chromatic scale, and thats all we have each of th