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Unit 5 Party Music (LG (LG 28 (Bittersweet tone, Strophic AA'BA,…
Unit 5 Party Music
LG
LG 42
Syncopated melody with steady accompaniment
4 Sections: A-A-B-B-C-C-D-D
Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag
LG 47
12 bar blues
Six choruses : Pattern of melody and harmony
Intersection between jazz and blues, also jazz and dance
Billie’s Blues
LG 28
Bittersweet tone
Strophic AA'BA
Parlor Song
Song in Major
Foster’s Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
Homophonic
LG 48
32-bar song form – AABA
Intro followed by three choruses the coda
Lush, composed-out jazz style
Riffs- Repeated phrases
Bent Notes- in and out of pitch
Syncopation
Shakes- brass extreme vibrato
Call and Response
Glissandos- fast up and down of pitches
Take the A Train
LG 9
Dnaces flow form one to another
Duple meter
Variety of instrumental dances
Mostly homophonic
Susato’s Danserye
Binary Form : AABB
Chapter 19
Dance Music form Medieval and Renaissance
Instrumental music was mostly noted with dance
Professionals and Amateurs made them
Groundbreaking embellishments
Published dance music books
Beginning in sixteenth century
Wide variety of dances
Slow pavane
fast saltarello
group ronde
Instrumental Music
Categorized in 2
Haut = loud = outdoor
Bas = soft = indoor
Instruments involved
Shawm, sakbut, cornetto, nakers, tabor -> haut instruments
Trumpets were used for fanfares or battle music
Recorder, lute, rebec -> bas instruments
Tielman Susato
Printed music for a living
Lived in the Netherlands
Renaissance Musician and Composer
Composed Dance music
Music was short
Had repeated sections
Embellished by performers
(1510-1571)
Chapter 37
Marketing of POP Culture
Marketing
Variety of Minstrel shows
Black face
Plantation life
White performers
Publishing Companies
Parlor Songs
Stephen Foster
Songs were later published as ballads and love songs
Mostly wrote parlor songs but also preformed some minstrel shows
First hit song was
Oh! Susanna
Professional songwriter form Pittsburgh, PA
(1826-1864)
Was sympathetic to the abolitionist cause
19th Century American POP Culture
Style was Developed into a more American style
Lighter music
Vernacular
Became the identity of popular culture in America
This music was most prevalent everywhere in the US since it was considered music that belonged to the people
Brought to the US form European immigrants
Types of Music
Minstel Shows
Parlor Songs
Chapter 56
Jazz
Traditionally associated with the US
Keeps evolving by incorporating many styles
Roots of Jazz
West African traditions form 18th Century Slaves
Euro American vernacular traditions
Born in New Orleans
Louis Armstrong
Born in New Orleans
Trumpet player
The Colgate Comedy Hour Vol 1
(1901-1971)
Singer
What a Wonderful World
Billie Holiday
Born in Philadelphia, PA
Moved to New York and sang at clubs in Brooklyn and Harlem
(1915-1959)
1933- a talent scout discovered her and arranged a recording session with Benny Goodman
Strange Fruit
Later in Life she had many drug addiction which led to her being in a abusive relationship
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington:
1920s placed in New York City jazz clubs
Composer/arranger
Cocern for structure created complex forms
Composed music with Billy Strayhorm
Studied piano and lived in Washington DC
Major figure in Harlem Renaissance
(1899-1974)
Blues
Roots form the Civil War: Mississippi Delta Blues
12 measure harmonic patterns (12 bar blues)
Three-lined stanzas
Voiced difficulties of everyday lives of people
Famous Blues Artists
Charlie Patton
Bessie Smith
B.B. King
Traditional US music
The Swing or Big-Band Era
Written, arranged, and composed vs. improvised
Larger group of players
2 Trumpets, one cornet, 3 trombones, 4 saxophones (double on clarinet), 2 basses, guitar, drums, vibraphone, and piano.
1930s-40s
Wide audience of both black and white cultures
Associated with a lot of dances
Chapter 51
Late 19th Century American Pop Music
Band Music
Marching band Tradition
Music made for brass bands
Roots:
Revolutionary War bands
18th Century US Marine Band
Civil War Era Bands
John Philip Sousa
(1854-1932)
Born in Washington, DC
Known as "The March King"
Wrote over 130 marches for bands
Semper Fidelis
The Liberty Bell
Stars and Stripes Forever
The Washington Post
Conducted on of the first US Marine Bands
Formed a civilian group in 1892
His sheet music sold incredibly well and he also marketed his recordings
Pre- Jazz Ragtime
Ragtime Dances
African American style which was modified form Euro-American traditions
Pianists accompanying social dancing
1890s
Scott Joplin
Performed ragtime at the World's Colombian Exposition in Chicago in 1893
"King of Ragtime"
Balnaced phrasing and key structures with highly syncopated melodies
Strove to elevate ragtime to a serious art form of music
Born in Texas, but left home when 14 to play in the honky-tonks and piano bars
(168-1917)