Music: Jazz and Rock

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What is Jazz?: Performance and Improvisation
How does Jazz differ from classical?: Because of its emphasis on rhythm.
What do Jazz musicians do simultaneously?: compose and perform
When did Jazz begin?: About 1900
Where did Jazz begin?: New Oreleans
Who created Jazz?: Musically illiterate black americans
What is art music?: anything legit enought o be taught at schools
Classical and Jazz are considered?: art music
When did Jazz become popular?: 1920-1940 between the wars
Why did Jazz become popular?: recording, invention of radio, sound in films
In the 1920s there were two types of popular music?: 1)Music derived from European tradition
2)Music derived from African tradition
What are some examples of music derived from European tradition?: classical, folk, vaudeville
What are some examples of music derived from African tradition?: Jazz and Blues
Jazz and Blues can be said to be what?: Mid 19th century african american spirituals
WWI was?: a war of devastation
How many soldiers were killed in WWI?: 9 million
In WWI there was new military technology such as?: the tank, gun, gas
The tank, gun and gas served as?: more efficient ways to kill
After WWI, _____became an escape and a positive outlike in their life.: Music
The US and Canada experienced what in the 1920s?: a financial boom
What happened during the "roaring twenties"?: an artistic boom, experimentation in the arts
In the 1920s Jazz was considered?: popular music
The stock market crashed when?: 1929
The 1920s and 30s can be said to be?: polar opposites
In the 1930s Jazz went back to its?: roots
In the 1930s jazz was?: well established
In the 1920s and 30s, there were 2 types of american culture?: 1. black
2. white
Jazz pervaded _______ cultures.: both
Blues and Jazz decent to african tradiiton in what regards?: rhythm
Blues is a combo of what?: rural slave songs and african folk tales
Blues music is inspired by?: disappointment, mistreatment
Blues lyrics express?: the feelings of words
Blues preformers developed?: slides and growls
What are the 2 types of Blues?: 1) Classic
2) Delta
Who is the godfather of blues?: WC Handy
what is the standardized form for blues?: 12 bar
Bessie Smith was a famous singer of what kind of music?: classic blues
Who primarily performed classic blues?: african american women accompanied by a piano or small combo
what is credited for blues sucess?: recording and sheet music
What are some traits of classic blues?: Improv on simple formula, syncopation, repition of short patterns, bent notes, call and response idea
Harmony comes from where?: european tradition
Where is delta blues from?: Mississippi Delta Region
Delta bues in rooted in _________tradition?: oral
What are some characteristics of delta blues?: rough singing style, rich in timbre, rhytmically flexible, alternation between voice and guitar
Who primarily plays delta blues?: AA males who are playing with a guitar
Blues as we know it today is centered around?: Delta Blues
Who primarily preformed Jazz?: AA performers wtih brass instruments
Jazz has _________rhythms: syncopated
In the 20's _____jazz was all the rage.: Swing
Jazz has a ________spirit towards _________musicians?: mocking, classical
What is the key to jazz?: improvosation
NO jazz was the leading style after________?: WWI
Characteristic of NO jazz?: group variation, result melody in several melodic lines all played at same time
NO jazz became popular because of what?: music rivalry between creoles and AA's
NO Jazz movement in the 20s produced many _______people: famous
Joe King Oliver: Black hornetist; made jazz immensely popular with white people
Louis Armstrong: Trumpet/scat singer; world wide famous
Jazz bands where divided how?: into front line (melodic) rhtyhm secion
scat singing is?: all about the pitches not the words
chorus is =: repition of 12 bars
Big Bands arrived when?: in the 1920s
What is the main purpose of jazz?: to dance
3 sections in big bands?: bass, reeds, rhythms
Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington and Count Bessie band: all famous jazz musicans
in 1930s a new style of musicians arrived?: composer and arranger and band member
2 types of jazz?: bebop, swing
bebop was created?: 1940s
bebop extended into different types of music?: cool jazz and hard bop
Miles Davis played?: bebop
Miles Davis invented?: cool jazz
Cool jazz is different how?: softer timbre, relaxed pace, rhytmically subtle
cool jazz has an emphasis on who?: arranger/composer
Hard Bop is dominated by: drummers
Hard bop has ____tunes: fast
Kenny Clarke, Art blakely, max roach: are all famous drummers
miles davis pioneered what kind of jazz?: modal and cool
modal jazz is?: based on slow unfolding melodies, same harmony for a long period of time, experimental music
in the 1960s what style of jazz came about?: avant guard (free style)
who started avant guard?: ornette colman
Avant Guard differs how?: it has an innovative sound and improvistation is key and unlimited
who is the most famous avant guard?: john coltrane
1960s/70s jazz becomes classical music because?: people where intrested in the beginnings and not making it anymore
what are 2 types of art music?: classical and jazz
in 1950s jazz musicians gave way to R&B because they weren't interested in their ______: audience
r&b always had a________unlike jazz: singer
R&b characteristics?: new songs on old formulas, amplified instruments, repititive basslines, emphasis on back beat
What is a back beat?: emphasis on 2X4 notes
R&B became popular because?: intensity, strong rhythm, sexual lyrics
The term rock n roll is coined by?: a cleveland dj
rock n roll is?: a combined beat of R&b and a country style guitar and lyrics pertaining to love sex
1st rock band: billy haley and the comet
1st rockstar: elvis presley
during the 60s it just became known as rock, and became famous______: all of the world
Who was the first commercialized sex symbol/ musician: Tina Turner
In the 60s early rockstars had already ________of the charts: fallen
In 1964 _________emerged as the superstar rock group: beatles
the beatles are credited with: track on track recording and advancing recording techniques
Brittish American rock bands where influenced by?: blues
is considered an instrumental virtuso on the guitar?: jimi hendrix
Off shoots of beatles musical style is?: california style, heavy metal, hard rock, acid rock, avant guard
60s pop styles included?: folk/protest music
70s pop splintered into competing markets and trends according to how they relate to social groups?: Disco and Punk Rock
80s rock styles?: New Wave, Alternative
Splinters of rock are?: rap, womens music, christian rock
raps 2 types?: ganster, conscience

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