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Unit 5 (Chapter 56 (Blues Roots (blue notes: A slight drop of pitch on the…

- - - - Trumpet player, Band Leader, Singer, and Actor
      - Swing: Jazz term coined to describe Louis Armstrong's style; more commonly refers to big band jazz. (page 323)
    - - Performed ragtime at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893
      - The “King of Ragtime”, Balanced phrasing and key structures with highly syncopated melodies and strove to elevate ragtime to a serious art form
    - - Sang at clubs in Brooklyn and Harlem
      - Strange Fruit (1939)
    - - Studied piano
      - Composer/arranger with concern for structure, resulting in complex forms
      - Take the Train
- - - - Duple meter
      - syncopated, accents fall on weak beats instead of strong beats
      - In Major Key
    - - Style: Ragtime
  - - - Six choruses each with pattern of melody and
        harmony
      - Texture: polyphonic
      - Melody: Syncopated with pitch inflections, blue notes, and bent notes
    - - Uses improv
  - - - Genre: Ballad
    - - Homophonic
      - Wave-like melody
  - - - Had elements of Improv
      - Had a Call and Response with syncopation
      - Riffs- repeated phrases
      - Bent Notes- in and out of pitch
      - Shakes- brass extreme vibrato
      - Glissandos- fast up and down of pitches
      - Quadruple meter
      - Disjunct and syncopated