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Music Revision - Features (Jazz (Quite fast, Swung, Improvisation,…
Music Revision - Features
The Blues
Blues scale (flattened 3rd, 5th, 7th)
Pitch Bend
Swung rhythm
Syncopation
Backbeat
Instruments: harmonica, guitar, banjo, violin, piano
Jazz
Quite fast
Swung
Improvisation
Instruments: trumpet, trombone, clarinet, piano, drums, double bass, (guitar).
Syncopated
Triplets
Ornaments
Range of dynamics
Accents
African
Music structured with rhythmic cycles of varying lengths, with accents on particular beats.
Emphasis on notes not on a strong beat give syncopated effect.
Complex rhythms
A cappella
Glissandos
Caribbean Music
Instruments: steel pans, guiro, maracas, guitar, bongos, claves.
Calypso music
2-2 or 4-4 time.
Syncopated
3-3-2 pattern rhythm.
Homophonic with a main melody and accompaniment. or polyphonic with melodies and countermelodies.
Mento - Jamaican folk music
instruments: acoustic guitar
banjo
drums
rhumba box
strophic form
Aaron Copland - American Composer
Features of his music
Tonal
Simple melody and rhythm, resembling American folk tunes.
Hoe down - homophonic texture with a clear melody.
Minimalism
Music built out of repeated patterns (cells)
No clear melody
Diatonic
Polyrhythms
Layering
Cells change gradually.
Adding/removing notes.
Gradually changing notes in pattern.
Adding or removing rests.
Layering patterns of different lengths together.
Technology
Multi-track recording
Phase-shifting
Composers
Steve Reich