1930s Music — Sensory Ratings

Big band era. Horn-heavy but recording technology kept peaks contained. 43 songs from this decade analyzed for dynamic range, texture, intensity, and sensory triggers.

6.1

Avg Intensity

16

Safe

23

Moderate

4

Intense

Safest picks from the 1930s (16)

My Funny Valentine

Ella Fitzgerald

All the Things You Are

Ella Fitzgerald

I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)

Louis Armstrong

Georgia on My Mind

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Take My Hand, Precious Lord

Mahalia Jackson

What a Little Moonlight Can Do

A-Tisket, A-Tasket

Ella Fitzgerald

Concerto in E-flat "Dumbarton Oaks"

Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky

Pennies from Heaven

Louis Armstrong

(Up A) Lazy River

Louis Armstrong

A-Tisket, A-Tasket

Ella Fitzgerald

Louis Armstrong

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation 18

Moderate (23)

It Don't Mean a Thing

Cross Road Blues

Sweet Home Chicago

When You Got a Good Friend

Milkcows Calf Blues

I Believe I'll Dust My Broom

Dead Shrimp Blues

Drunken Hearted Man

Coleman Hawkins

When the Saints Go Marching In

Louis Armstrong

Swing That Music

Louis Armstrong

Variations on a Theme of Corelli

Phonograph Blues

They're Red Hot

Louis Armstrong

Piano Concerto in G Major

Most intense (4)

Adagio for Strings

Symphony of Psalms

Igor Stravinsky

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Sergei Rachmaninoff

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