Chapter 32 between the world wars: jazz and popular music

Question 1

Musical theater

Answer 1

• operettas sigmund rombergs the student prince but quickly being replaced by musical theatre. Pieces that were numbers were closely related to the plot and not just popular songs of the time ex Jerome kern’s ( 1885-1945) showboat 1927 lyrics my oscar hammerstein. Operetta, ragtime, spiritual about racism.

Question 2

Golden age

Answer 2

of tin pan alley 1910-1955 one or more verses followed by a 32 bar chorus AABA ABAB or ABAC Irving Berlin 1888-1989 God bless america and white christmas , Alexanders ragtime band 1911- wrote lyrics himself

Question 3

Cole porter

Answer 3

1891-1964 wrote music and lyrics Let’s do it, I get a kick out of you, it’s de-lovely

Question 4

Blues 20th century america

Answer 4

• words expressed through melodic contours, freely syncopated rhtyhsm and distinctive vocal and instrumental effects (slide, rasp) Black genre based on a simple repetitive formula. Classic blues Black women ex Mamie Smith of Crazy blues 1920 Delta blues Black men with guitars Robert Johnson

Question 5

Blue notes

Answer 5

slight drop or slide in a pitch on the 3rd, 5th or 7th degree of a major scale

Question 6

12 bar blues

Answer 6

handu ex Bessie Smiths Back water blues 1927 standard formula with a harmonic progression in whic the 1st 4 measures phrase is on the tonic, the 2nd begins on the subdominat and ends on the tonic and the 3rd starrs on the dominant and returns to the tonic.

Question 7

New orleans jazz

Answer 7

centers on group variation of a given tune either improvised or in the same spontaneous style. COuternpoint of melodic lines , call and response Louis armstrong and Jelly roll morton King oliver West end blues small ensemble trumpet clarinet and trombone and the RHythm section dreams piano and banjo 12 bar blues Scat sinigng Big bands swing Duke Ellingotn Tommy Dorsey- white

Question 8

George Gershwin

Answer 8

rhapsody in blue 1924 incorporate jazz into classical. Piano concerto in F 1925- jazz PORGY AND BESS 1935 folk opera musicals Of thee i sing 1931 Girl crazy 1930- i got rhythm

Question 9

Duke Ellington

Answer 9

cotton club creole rhapsody and reminiscing in tempo - arrangements worked out in advance Sophisticaed lady and don’t get around much anymore. Wrote piece to show off his musician in the band

Question 10

Contrafact

Answer 10

cotton tail duke ellington a new tune composed over a harmonic progression borrowed from a particular rhythm,

Question 11

Movie musical

Answer 11

• Gershwin delicious and shall we dance, berlin top hat, kern swing time.
  The wizard of oz 1939 movie music first one in color harold arlen

Question 12

Film composers

Answer 12

Film music first talking picture the jazz singer 1927
Max Steiner- wrote music for the film king kong 19933 lietmotives music conveys moods character Gone with the wind 1939 and casablanca 1943
Erich wolfgang kornogold 1897-1957- opera composer also captin blood 1935
Alfred newman 1900-70 1st native american composer wuthering heights more than 200 files short Carl Stalling bug bunny and disneys snow white and the 7 dwarfs 1937

Question 13

Diegetic music vs Non Diegetic music

Answer 13

Diegetic music or source music music that is heard or performed by the character themselves.
Non Diegetic music or underscoring background music that conveys to the viewer a moor or other aspects of the scene or character.