MUISC 005 FINAL QUIZZZ
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- early jazz in new orleans
- dixieband jass(jazz) band -- collective improvisation, syncopation
- Leitmotifs
- musical symbolism or person, place, or thing
- cadence
- complete or incomplete
- Act III Final Scene
- Ride of Valkyries, Wotan -- King, Brunhilde -- daughter, endless melody, continuous sound, dissonance -- refusal to cadence, leitmotifs -- slumber, magic sleep, fire and siegfreid, there was music for drama rather than the guy singing the whole time
- Aspects of Tonality
- Modal and Tonal
- big money and bigger bands
- due to recording band, wartime rationing, sentimental changes most bands died during WWII
- French Opera
- lyric opera, grand opera, opera comique
- Blue grass
- billy monroe and his bluegrass boys, instrumentation
- African American influences
- field hollers, work songs, spirtuals
- Classic Blues
- professional songwriters and performers interpretation of folk music
- bessie smith
- one of the classic blues singers, born poor, but didnt stay that way, her 1st record sold almost 800,000 records, do commercial success and mas production have a corrupting effect on art
- American music
- constant juxaposition of European, latin, native, and african american influences,
- hillibilly style number 3: from folk secular/minstrel tradition
- string bands (uncle dave macon, and his fruit jar drinkers), Jordan is a hard road to travel v. dr boatmans dance
- blue notes
- flattened pitches of scale, bessie smith, ma rainey
- German Opera
- singspiel, music drama
- Country blues
- folk derived, guitar/banjo, vocally driven, free rhythm, more free form, regional diverse, delta blues, texas blues -- later chicago, authentic blues, robert johnson, blind leman jefferson son house
- The Carter Family
- AP Doc Carter (1891 - 1960) -- song bass and collected folk songs, sarah carter -- sang lead vocals and played autoharp and guitar, maybelle (sister-in-law) -- song back up, influencial guitar playing, influencial guitar playing, melody of bass wildwood flawer
- Tonal
- Establishment of a tonic (home/finishing tone)
- big band jazz
- duke ellington, big band leader pianist, composer, arranger, dapper, witty, forthright, highly influential, "american music", harlem's cotton club -- speak easy, for weathy white people, housband
- Development of Jazz
- New Orleans, LA, complex interweaving of cultural influences, wind bands, ragtime and collective improvisation, syncopation of ragtime w/ swing of a soulful marching band
- Scott Joplin
- King of Ragtime,
- Pre WWII Technology Advancements
- piano sheet music, live music, late 19th century, early phonograph 1877 edison, shellac discs, double sided, 1906: first radio broadcast, sale of records exeeds sheet music, telephone, phonograph, radio station, automobile, motion pictures
- jazz at the pops
- popularity of jazz pushes it into new realms, symphonie jazz -- white jazz, paul whiteman, take out the rag = HAPPY WHITES! not
- Post WWII
- Magnetic tape, track recording (les Paul), stereo recordings, "Battle of the Speeds", 78, 33 1/2, 45 rpm, FM radio, Television
- European American influences
- ballads, folk songs, hymns, art music
- Charlie "Bird" Parker
- The tortured legend of his own time -- drug, alcohol, sex, food addict
- Hillbilly style 2: honky tonk
- hard livin/lovin wrogn with a reliious restless lifestyle
- Wagner's Ring Cycle
- The Ring of Nibelung (4 opera cycle), rhine maidens, gold in river--ring of power, follows ring through 3 generations, sigfried -- hero, story from norse sagas german epic poem
- Wagner's Music
- Endless melody, finally cadences at the very end, music tells inner story, extreme chromatic dissonance, pushing tonality to the limit
- Bessie smith - black water blues
- smith composed the music and lyrics, what does it mean to compose a 12 bar song? a reflection variation AA1B, expressive style,
- Hillbilly Music
- urban v. rural, migration and life changes (home), good ole days, family, love songs, home and hearth, restlessness
- European American Development
- roughed it without conservatories for music, European Folk and art music, Military processional music, rural folk music -- sacred and secular
- Jimmy Rodgers
- the singing breakman, yodeling styel, slide guitar, jazzy horns, blue yodels
- point of repose
- consonance v. dissonance
- Minstel Show
- America's first art form?, extremely popular in mid 19th century (civil war), comedy skits, whites acted sterotypes (african, asian, native american, female, political) last full length show - 1950's
- John Gay's Beggar's Opera
- State music for the masses, highly influential, Ballad opera, spoken and then sung to popular tunes w/ different text
- 3 main hillbilly styles
- sacred folk tradition, honky tonk, secular folk and minstrel tradiiton
- Gramophone
- Microphone -- 1925,
- establishing a tonic
- through repetition, drone, melody, harmony, tonic/dominant relationship V-I, scales and modes, the octave, chromatic scale, diatonic scale, pentatonic (5 notes between octave)
- American Wind Bands
- Civil War and Post civil war phenomenon, town bands, displaced musicians, John phillip sousa, started processions and parades
- African American Music Development
- Syncretic and Institutional -- church, family, work songs
- Ellington's Conga Brava
- syncopation, muted bras -- timbre, trombone introduction, solo breaks -- improvisational sax, trumpet, dramatic change in style and mood, latin -- brava to swing, conga - afro cuban dance, constant variation, large scale, ABA conga
- Hillbilly style one from sacred folk tradition
- "gospel ship", traditional arranged by AP Carter, sacred music -- faith, no firm seperation between sacred and secular folksy sacred text, family values
- Country or Rural Blues
- marketed as authentic, usually solo musicians with guitar or banjo, 1st recorded was blind lemon jefferson, "SON'S HOUSE" -- no influence from marketing of classic blues, real folk music?
- The african aesthetic
- connections to african musical practices
- WC Handy
- codified popular blues tradition 12 bar, 16 bar, 10 bar blues form,
- Modal
- Major v. Minor and everything in between, mood, flavor, stylistic and natural sign, western scales, chromatic,
- swing jazz
- big band swing, young audience, by wwII became the sound of america, duke ellington, benny goodman, fletcher henderson, artie shaw, louis arstrong
- ring shout
- call and response, blue notes (notes in between 12 note scale), polyrhythms (more than 1 rhythmn happening), communal participation, connection with bodily movement, and with worship, ecstacy, differing (non-homogeneous) timbres
- Italian Opera
- opera buffa, opera seria
- Marketing
- commercial marketing -- catering to specific audiences, counter culture, independent record labesl -- okeh (hillbilly) black swan (Black people), Smaller Radio Strations
- Richard Wagner
- German composer, grand opera (nationalistic) wrote his own librettos, revolutionsit, (switzerland banished), new german school, wrote about art and revolution, music drama, jerk, antisemetic