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MUsic Quiz #3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| WW1 | 1914-1918 (Europe) 1917-1918 (USA) |
| The main part of jazz is... | improvisation |
| Two types of Jazz | Blues and Hot Jazz |
| Qualities of Jazz music | 12 bar blues, AAB, blue notes |
| "Hellbound on my trail" | Robert Johnson. (Rural blues) irregular, rough, gospel shouting |
| "Lost your Head Blues" | 1925, Bessie Smith = Armstrong. (urban blues) She was known as empress. Influence on women. Form= 12 bar form |
| Qualities of Dixieland music | polyphonic-noimitative texture |
| "Dippermouth blues" | 1923 by oliver "king" joseph |
| "Hotter than that" | 1927 Louis Armstrong |
| Qualities of hot jazz | Chromatic, fast |
| "West end blues" | 1928 Louis Armstrong, Had incredible beginning solo (virtuoso), ensemble urban blues, scat/vocables-people imitating instruments |
| James Johnson | STRIDE piano, left hand walks/strides, full of irregularities, fun/surprise rhythm, new to pianists. |
| "Carolina Shout" | 1921 by James Johnson, form=strains, style=stride, set standard |
| "Rhapsody in Blues" | 1924, art music, concerto, smear in beginning-klenzmer due to GG Jewish, jazz chords, A to A. Has incredible synthesis of black elements in white communities, not liked by all. Making art music out of black music is something that came out of jazz. |
| Quodlibet | two different melodies/texts, non-imitiative |
| "Bess you is my woman now" | 1934 from Porgy and Bess, jazz chords, form= AAB blues, blue notes, black qualities |
| TPA form | solo strophe and refrain |
| "someone to watch over me" | 1926 from musical Okay, AABA, syncopated |
| "Can't help lovin' that man of mine" | 1927 from showboat (first black musical) Jerome Kern BLACK= solo strophe and refrain, blue notes, syncopated WHITE=harmony, TPA |
| "Old man River" | 1927 by Kern, worker, black complaint, pentatonic, the river doesn't care what they do |
| "Ballet Mechanique" | 1925 by George Antheil, Sirens=strange, Objective not substance over matter, full of rhythm and ostinados, motion percussion, Perevillian movement. Sirens=no purpose |
| "Ionisation" | 1930 by Edward Varese from France, Persessian movement-all percussion instruments, sirens, specific form="reference point"-sound familiar to your ear that you can came back to,in this song the siren.stereo effects- different planes of sound-NEW. |
| Great depression | 1930-1940 |
| WW2 | 1939-1945 (Europe) 1941-1945 (USA) |
| "Amieo 111" | 1930 by black composer WIlliam Still, afro-american symphony, banjo dance-sounds like minstrel show, syncopation, pentatonic, blue notes |
| "Adagio for Strings" | 1936 by samuel barber, romantic and full of tension, From= pp-crocesndo-pp (draw picture), one unfolding melody, agogic accents, representing how people felt during depression |
| Aaron Copland | Did populist music |
| "Fanfare for common man" | 1942, laying out chords in 5th-no emotion associated with this, open, quintal, ostinado, texture=polyphonic-imitative, movement-a big quality of neoclassic music, big piece that is very influential and brings in European qualities, Stravrthyminsky |
| "Hoedown" | Copland, in strains, at this time, cowboys are heroes, motor rythm, neoclassical |
| Big Band | The BEAT that changed. Big band is not a style, just a size. Swing beat is new and unique feature. Has walking bass, come out of black community. |
| "Taxi was Dance" | 1939 by William "count" basie, organized and written out due to large band. |
| "Take the A train" | 1941 by Duke Ellington, form=TPA (AABA) |
| Qualities of Swing | Walking bass, AABA form, and change of beat |
| Country and Western | high lonesome became style feature |
| "can the circle be unbroken" | 1935 by Carter Family, strophe and refrain, tune in middle |
| "blue yodel" | 1930 by Jimmy Rodgers, singing blues-white/western blues, very few changes, refrain in yodel |
| Texas Swing | "New San Antonio Rose (1938) Bob Wills, slide guitar, honky tonk piano, heavy back beat, AA' BB' CC' AA' cup let |
| Blue Grass Music | What makes it unlike country? High speed and virtuosity, fast and difficult, for listening no dancing or singing, merges jazz with local instruments and folk syle |
| "It's Mighty Dark" | 1948 by Bill Monroe, strophe and refrain but not TPA, the refrain in A2, scruggs-best banjo player ever, style- High-lonsome, instrument improvisation. |
| Cole Porter | writer for TPA, wealthy, high society, respresents Escapist, elite |
| "Anything Goes" | 1934 by Porter who does lists series of 6& 7, S&R |
| West Side Story | 1957 by Leonard Berstein, romeo and juliet - Neoclassic +TPA style, exciting, realistic, social commentary |
| "Perilous Night" | 1940 by John Cage, prepared piano, invented aleatoric music-compser lets go,. Most famous piece is 4:33-chance. Radical, unusual, revolutionary, new. |
| "Ensembles for Synthesis" | 1964 by Milton Babbitt, electronic music, serial=12 tone, no emotion, no repeats, very disjunct, atonal, intellectual |
| Bebop | weak endings, melody is linear and asymmetrical, harmony is dissonant |
| "Koko" | 1945 by Charlie Parker running beat, hidden head, very free-no charts, few ppl knew it. |
| Cool Jazz | bebop slowed down, brushes on symbols, sound of sophistication |
| "bobplicity | 1949 by Miles Davis, walking bass, breathy |
| "Take Five" | 1959 Paul Desmond 5/4 ONE23FOUR5 ONE23FOUR5, artistic, head is ABBA |
| Rock and Roll | (Rythm & Blues) + (Country & Western) |
| :School Days | 1957 by Chuck Berry, riffing, AAB, ostinado, back beat |
| "Hound Dog" | 1956 Elvis,cover song AAB "ooo way" call and response |
| "That'll be the day" | 1957 by Buddy Holly-important innovator, rockabilly, glottal stops and ornamentation came out of folk, regional qualities. |
| !960's new school | "Timbral School" |
| "sound Patterns" | 1964 by Pauline Oliveros, clusters, sounds made with the mouth |
| "Free Jazz" | 1960 by Ornette Colman, everyone doing their own thing, the point is philosophy, aleatoric jazz. |
| "Blowin' in the Wind" | 1963 by Bob Dylan, contrafact from antibellion balck song, this is the "unanswered question" answer is not in books-in society, mimiking high lonesome, |
| Soul music/ funk | black, strutting/hit harder, R &B, heavy rythms, what makes blacks different than whites, |
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