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Ragtime

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  • Identifies a body of piano music
  • Composed by scott joplin and others
  • First ragtime pieces were published in the 1890’s
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Ragging

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A way of modifying pre-existing material so that it sounds like rag time

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Europeans first heard ragtime rhythms in who’s arrangements

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Sousa’s

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One of the first ragtime dances was the

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Turkey trot

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Many people found ragtime’s mix of black and white influence as

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unacceptable

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What were formed in the 1900’s

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African American musician unions

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Ragtime represented the first documented instance of African Americans interpreting

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European sheet music

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Scott Joplin

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  • Maple leaf Rag, first commercially successful piano rag
  • Received formal music training in European tradition
  • Devoted most of his effort to legitimizing ragtime
  • He viewed himself as a serious composer
  • “Not too fast”
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Player piano

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A type of piano that plays music without the need for a person to depress the normal keys or pedals

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Reproducing piano

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  • Type of player piano

- The rolls were made from the recorded performances of famous musicians

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Pianola

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These rolls were not recorded in a piano

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Related to ragtime

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  • Cakewalk-precursor of the piano rag
  • Ragtime song-any song with a touch of syncopation was labeled a ragtime song
  • Ragtime dance music-faster tempo, multi sectional form, less syncopated
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Blues

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  • Around the turn of the century blues was both a rural folk music and music for stage entertainment
  • It was often performed by an individual
    Shortly after 1900 blues became a commercial music
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The term blues has three meanings

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  1. Can describe a feeling
  2. Can refer to a style
  3. It can indicate a form
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Country Blues

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Was sung throughout the rural south

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Characteristics of Country Blues

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  • Rougher vocal timbre
  • Acoustic guitar accompaniment
  • Irregular form
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Robert Johnson

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  • Great country blues performer

- “Hell hound on my trail”

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Commercial blues

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Introduced through race records

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Race Records

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Recordings of artist of a certain race for resale to same race

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Bessie Smith

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  • the most important of the women blues singer at the first part of the first century, she sang “St. Louis Blues”
  • St. Louis Blues, most frequently recorded song of the first half of the 20th century
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Blues notes

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Bending of a pitch

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After WW2 what instrument injected new vitality into the Blues

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electric guitar

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B.B. King

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  • Acknowledged master of contemporary blues

- His guitar was named “Lucille”

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Characteristics of Blues

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  • Standard blues form is 12 measures long
  • 3 four measure phrases
  • Primary chords I(1) chord, IV(4) chord, V(5) chord
  • Rhymed Couplet← lyrics, with a rhymed couplet the first two lines will be nearly identical, the third line will be different
  • Call and response
  • Full rhythm section, bass, drums, keyboard, guitar
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1877

Thomas Edison produced what

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the first working phonograph able to store and playback sound, used cylinders

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1888

Berliner invented what

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the gramophone, which used a disc

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1894

Marconi invented what

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the spark transmitter with antenna (radio)

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1906

The victrola becomes what

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the best selling record player of its time

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1921

Sales of records begin what

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decline as direct result of radio

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In the 1920’s pop music was available to who

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anyone who had access to radio

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1920

The first commercial radio station did what

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began broadcasting

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1926

The birth of what

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network radio

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There were 3 main technological improvements in 1925

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  1. Microphones
  2. Amplifiers
  3. Speakers
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Impacts of technological improvements in 1925

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  • Dramatic improvement in recorded sound

- It enabled small voice singers to record and perform

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By 1920, syncopated dance music had integrated with popular song to make what

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a music both singable and danceable

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Syncopated dance orchestra, two key differences

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  • Full rhythm section

- Also used saxophone

37
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Two important pieces of equipment for drummer

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  • High hat symbol

- Bass drum pedal

38
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In 1920’s _______ were new to popular music and _____ began to lose status

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Saxophone

violin

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Most songs in the twenties were ____ songs

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foxtrot

“respectable” citizens reacted violently to these dances

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Irene and Vernon Castle

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  • First couple to make dancing to syncopated music socially acceptable
  • Opened castle house, dance instruction studio
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Fletcher Henderson

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  • “Copenhagen”

- His was the first african american band to broadcast regularly

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“Whispering” performed by Paul Whiteman

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First song to sell one million in sheet music and one million is records

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Al Jolson

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  • Most popular Jewish entertainer during the twenties
  • Starred in the first sound motion picture titled “the jazz singer”
  • “April showers”
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Standard

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a song that most people and musicians know

45
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Jazz has been called americas art music

It has passed through three phases:

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1) 1900-1925: performed mainly in Nola
2) 1925-45: jazz intercepted in pop music mainstream
3) 1945 On: jazz music became music strictly for listening

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Jazz musicians play with :

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  • greater rhythmic freedom
  • use a more extensive melodic
  • harmonic vocabulary
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the head

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  • Most jazz performances follow a theme and variation form

- What the theme is called

48
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History of jazz begins in the

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twenties

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Joe “King” Oliver

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  • One of the major figures of early jazz
  • King olivers creole jazz band
  • His band used the standard rhythm section of the time, banjo, piano, brass bass(tuba) drums
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Front-line

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  • Clarinet
  • Trumpet
  • Trombone
    The clarinet took highest part, trumpet in middle, trombone took lowest
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Collective improvisation

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When instruments of front line solo at the same time

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Jelly Roll Morton

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  • Claimed to have invented jazz
  • Morton and his red hot peppers
  • He changes the instrumentation of the band with great frequency
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Louis Armstrong

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  • The first great jazz soloist

- Upset the balance of the front line

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Big band swing

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  • Was a dance music

- Was only in the swing era was jazz truly a popular music

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Fletcher Henderson

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Benny goodman bought many of his arrangements

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Duke Ellington

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  • His main collaborator was billy Strahorn

- His arrangements and compositions have strong sense of beginning and end

57
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Small group jazz remained a viable part of the jazz scene throughout which era

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swing

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Benny goodman “the king of swing”

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  • His band that launched the swing era

- First white band leader to tour with African American musicians

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Bop/ Bebop

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  • Evolved directly out of swing
  • Late 40’s on the east coast
  • Bebop had rapid tempo, angular melodies, complex harmonies
  • Guitar is no longer regular part of the rhythm section
  • Charlie parker
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Cool Jazz

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  • It is simpler and more relaxed
  • Happened in 50’s on West coast
  • Miles Davis: right of passage to be in his band
  • “Freddie freeloader”
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Dave Brubeck

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  • recorded album called “time out”

- 1st million selling jazz album

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1920-1960 the golden age of tin pan alley song

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  • Standard from is aaba
  • “Cheek to cheek” biggest hit of the 1930’s
  • Written by erving berlin
  • Extraordinarily versatile song writer
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Crooning

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more conservative and less syncopated

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Jazz singing

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  • Billie Holiday

- one of the 1st great jazz singers

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Richard rodgers

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  • Had two careers
  • Worked with lorenz hart and oscar hammerstein
  • He integrates the sections of a song into a larger unified whole
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Song interpreters

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Frank Sinatra

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Jump Bands

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  • Late 40’s
  • Used lead vocalist
  • Reduced instrumentation
  • Heavy back beat
  • Louis jordan

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