Blues and Jazz Music Flashcards
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Blues
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- Developed out of the Slave Trade
- Working in ‘chain gangs’
- Spiritual songs fused with the rhythm of the work.
- Field hollers
- Sung vocal
- Bending of notes
- Improvised based on blues scale (I, (b)iii, IV, (b)V, (b)vii)
- 12 Bar Blues
- Swung rhythms (African roots)
- Verse, Chorus (Strophic) - Repetetive
- Positive, optimistic in the face of opression
- Ledbelly (Huddie Ledbetter)
2
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Ragtime
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- Piano only genre (Pianola)
- Stride Bass (disjunct)
- Syncopation in RH
- Accented off beats
- Based on Souza marches
- ABCDAB
- Scott Joplin
3
Q
Dixieland
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- New Orleans Polyphony
- Collective Improvisation
- Brass left over from WWI
- Louis Armstrong
4
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Swing
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- Big Band
- End of Collective Improvisation
- Duke Ellington
- Roaring 20s
- Mass Manufacturing
- Speakeasies/Libraries
- Dance Halls
5
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Bebop
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- Fast-pace (Crotchet = 200)
- Very Virtuosic
- Lots of Chord changes
- Charlie Parker
- John Coltrane
- Miles Davis!
6
Q
Cool
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- Slow Pace
- Created by Davis
- Reaction to Bebop
- Modal
7
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General Jazz Features
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- 12 Bar Blues
- Walking Bassline
- Seventh Chords
- Extended Chords
- Syncopation
- Improvisation
- Comping
- Call and Response
- Scat Singing (Nonsense Syllables)
