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unit 5 (chapter 56 (Billie Holiday (1915-1959) (Most famous song (Strange…

- - - - West African traditions from 18th century slaves
        
        Call and response
        
        Vocal inflections
      - Euro-American vernacular traditions
      - New Orleans
    - - Louis Armstrong
        • Ella Fitzgerald
        • Billie Holiday
        • Duke Ellington
  - - - Civil war: Mississippi Delta Blues
      - Voiced difficulties of everyday life
      - Three-line stanzas
      - Twelve-measure harmonic patterns (12 bar blues)
    - - • Charlie Patton
        • Bessie Smith
        • B.B. King
  - - - Strange Fruit (1939)
    - - Addictions and abusive relationships
    - - Learned by listening to Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong
  - - - Concern for structure resulted in
        complex forms
      - Composed music for his band with
        Billy Strayhorn
  - - - Intro followed by three choruses then coda
    - - Still some elements of improvisation
        • Call and response
        • Syncopation
        • Riffs- repeated phrases
        • Bent Notes- in and out of pitch
        • Shakes- brass extreme vibrato
        • Glissandos- fast up and down of pitches
- - - - Revolutionary War regimental bands
      - 18th century US Marine Band
      - Civil War era bands
  - - - African American style that modified EuroAmerican
        traditions
      - Pianists accompanying social dancing
      - 1890s
- - - - Lighter music
      - Vernacular
      - American popular identity
    - - Minstel Shows
      - Parlor Songs
  - - - White performers
      - Black face
      - Minstrel- Variety shows
      - Plantation life
    - - Parlor Songs
      - Amateurs at home
  - - - Oh! Susanna
- - - - Bas = soft = indoor
      - Haut = loud = outdoor
    - - Shawm, sakbut, cornetto,
        tabor, nakers = loud
      - Trumpets = Battle and
        Fanfares
      - Recorder, lute, rebec = bas
        instruments
  - - - Short
      - Repeated sections
      - Embellished by performers