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Characteristics of Blues |
– Blues paradigm (phase structure); 12 bar metric/harmonic/phrase structure |
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Downhome Blues |
Earliest blues styles; country blues, cultivated by men; accompanied by themselves on banjo or guitar |
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Harmonic structure of blues |
141541 |
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Metric structure |
12 bars/measures |
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Phrase structure |
AAB |
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Urban blues |
migration of southern blacks to northern cities; concentrated in Chicago |
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Vaudeville blues |
cultivated by women accompanied by small ensembles |
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Third phase of Boogie Woogie |
(1940-1950) Lose blues character and becomes more main stream |
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First phase of Boogie Woogie |
– (1900-1930) (left hand improvised) |
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First recorded boogie woogie |
– Clarence Smith (Pinetop’s boogie) |
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Industry association of boogie woogie |
railroad and lumber industries |
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2nd phase of boogie woogie |
(1930 – 1940) (jazz phase, integrated boogie woogie with jazz) |
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Themes common to boogie woogie |
Derived from environment (mainly) and industry associated with; |
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First boogie recorded |
1928 (Pinetop’s boogie) |
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Chord symbols |
identifies particular chord with minor/major and letter of alphabet
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Chord |
– three or more notes sounded at the same time |
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Doo Wop contributions to Soul Music |
– Nonsense syllables; and harmonic paradigms (16451 or 16251) |
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Doo Wop distinctive characteristic – |
nonsense syllables; harmonic paradigms (same as above) |
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Ella Fitzgerald big hit – |
Tisk Task (look up); chick web was her band leader |
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Great Pentatonic Soul Compositions |
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted, |
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Film: Lil’ Richard |
He was singer, founder of rock n’ roll |
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Film: Lucille |
his girlfriend |
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Film: Pancake 31 |
– makeup |
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Film: The Upsetters – |
Lil’ richard’s touring band |
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Gospel Music Anticipator |
Charles Tinley |
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Gospel Music Definition |
- Secular music (not spiritual) (came about late 1920s or early 1930s) |
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Icon Gospel Music – |
Thomas Dorsey |
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Gospel Music Holiness churches |
Churches where people could get crazy and start yelling stuff; church is set up by former immigrants from north; more visceral expression of religion |
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Gospel Contributions to Soul Music (characteristic) |
Vocalizations; they were louder and wandered up and down the scale more (melisma is type of vocalization, shouts, moans, groans, etc.); interpolated vocality; spoken introductions. Purpose of all vocalizations is to emotionalize the music; melisma is the most popular |
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Inversion Definition |
Lowest note of the chord is not the root chord |
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Jazz Distinctive Characteristic |
Swing meter |
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Masters of Pentatonic Writing |
Stevie Wonder, Sam Cook, Curtis Mayfield |
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Ragtime Distinctive Character |
– The left hand pattern (piano) |
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Rhythm and Blues Atlantic Record |
Herbert Abramson |
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Rhythm and Blues Contributions to Soul |
Blues paradigms progressions; ?and the form? |
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Rhythm and Blues Derivation |
From swing; jump swing specifically |
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Rhythm and Blues Guitarist “Stormy Weather” |
– T-Bone Walker |
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Rhythm and Blues Icon |
– Louis Jordan |
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Rhythm and Blues Nickelodeans |
Video clips inside of a jukebox (nickels put in) |
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Rhythm and Blues Tympani Five |
Louis Jordan’s Band |
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Rhythm Stratifications Definition |
different levels of rhythms at the same time |
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Root Definition |
Note on which chord built on |
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Scale Definition |
In music, a scale is any set of musical notes ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch. A scale ordered by increasing pitch is an ascending scale, while descending scales are ordered by decreasing pitch. Some scales contain different pitches when ascending than when descending (for instance, see Melodic minor scale). (WIKI) |
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Social Commentary in 1960s |
Belligerent and direct |
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Social Commentary Motivations in 1960s |
– Turbulence of the period; race riots, a lot of unsolved murders, killings of black leaders, even white leaders. |
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Social Commentary in 1940s |
– It was very subtle and metaphorical |
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Spirituals Distinctive Characteristic – |
Pentatonicism |
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Race Roots; |
dealt with lynching DAMN WHITE PEOPLE |
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Major scale steps |
T–T–S–T–T–T–S |