Chapters 1-6 Flashcards
When were the first rapped lyrics recorded?
1930s. “Rap” and “rapping” come from this era as slang.
How many years does it take to determine how important music was in its time period?
A minimum of 30 years
What are the five elements of music?
Pitch, timbre, dynamics, duration, and silence.
Define pitch
The highness or lowness of sound
What are the sub elements of pitch?
Melody and harmony
Define scale/mode
Series of consecutive pitches in close proximity to each other in a specific pattern.
Define harmony
Two or more simultaneous pitches
Define chord progression
A series of chords placed together in a logical musical pattern.
Popular music is always:
Easy to understand and danceable
Entertainment music is
Subjective-changes
Musicality is
Objective, stays steady
Define syncopation
Enhancing weak beats
Define downbeat
The first beat in each bar
Jazz is America’s only
international stature indigenous art form
Musical improv is the
Spontaneous creation of new music within certain musical limitations
Africans brought what music properties to America?
Improv, complex layered rhythms, unstable pitch, call and response.
Western music brought what musical elements to jazz?
Melody and harmony, timbre, form
The foundations of jazz happened in
The mid 1800s
Time era of country/rural blues
1860+
Define folk music
Music produced by local musicians for local consumption
Country/rural blues were first only heard
In the rural areas of the deep south.
What music style was male only?
Country/rural blues
Country/rural blues lyrics usually followed what pattern?
AAB rhyming pattern.
Musician for country/rural blues category
Robert Johnson - stereotypical example of the rural blues sound.
What is the time period for city/urban blues?
1900+
City/urban blues musician example
Bessie Smith
City/urban blues were commercial music, meaning
Was created to be a saleable product
City/urban blues focused lyrically mostly on the genre of
Romance
What was the first blues style where visuals came into play?
City/urban blues - music videos
What was “Jazz’s first style” and it’s time era?
Ragtime, 1890-1915
What was New Orleans Dixieland time era?
1900-1920
What was the musical form of New Orleans Dixieland?
ABA- A: 10% “head” B: improv 80% A: 10% head
What was Chicago Dixieland’s time era?
1920s, “roaring 20s,” “jazz age.”
What was Storyville?
30 blocks of legal prostitution in New Orleans. Storyville clubs were a huge part of New Orleans Dixieland
What three new major technologies launched Chicago Dixieland across America?
Radio, recordings and movies.
What was the first style of music to produce international “stars?”
Chicago Dixieland
Chicago Dixieland introduced what new position within a band?
The arranger.
Give example of a Chicago Dixieland musician:
“Jelly Roll” Morton; pianist, composer, arranger, sex symbol. Made musical “breaks” popular.
Louis Armstrong invented….
Swing-feel. He altered the division of the beat, and inverted the accents, creating an enhanced rhythmic drive that felt much looser.
Louis Armstrong made what vocal technique popular?
“Scat” singing.
What musical era did Louis Armstrong belong to?
Chicago Dixieland
When did the recording industry begin?
The 1920s
How were early recordings made?
A megaphone sent sound waves down the needle arm which scratched into a wax disc on a perfectly balanced metal plate.
