I Got Rhythm
work by Gershwin and Gershwin
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arrangement by Miller
- In Glenn Miller
…especially Miller’s arrangement of “I Got Rhythm,” with its use of countermelody and multiple false endings.
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discussed in biography
- In George Gershwin: Popular songs of George Gershwin
…the Gershwins’ best-known collaborations, “I Got Rhythm,” was introduced by Ethel Merman in the musical Girl Crazy (1930). The following year, Gershwin scored a lengthy, elaborate piano arrangement of the song, and in late 1933 he arranged the piece into a set of variations for piano and orchestra; “I…
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