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What is Film Music?

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One of the most important cultural developments between the wars
Hollywood becomes center of film industry
Hires musicians, choreographers, and composers

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What is Letimotif?

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A theme that is represented by music

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What is a soundtrack?

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Songs that went along with a movie

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What is Diegetic Music?

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Characters are able to hear the music, also called source music

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What is Non-Diegetic Music?

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Characters can not hear the music, also called underscoring music

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What are the three types of the film musical?

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Animated cartoons (Steamboat Willie)
The Story Musical (The Wizard of Oz)
The Dance Musical (Fred Astaire)

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Who was Fred Astaire?

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Famous dancer that would dance with Ginger Rogers

Helped establish the dance musical as a genre

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Who was Irving Berlin?

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One of Hollywood’s great composer

Wrote Cheek to Cheek

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What is Mickey-Mousing?

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A film technique that syncs music with the actions that are occurring on screen

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What did Rodgers and Hart do?

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They worked together for years composing music for 26 broadway shows and 9 films

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What did Rodgers and Hammerstein do?

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Wrote “Oklahoma” together

Wrote innovative musical

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What is an integrated musical?

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All music is involved with the plot

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What is swing music?

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Music where solos are emphasized

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Who was Count Basie?

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Kept the blues prominent in his music
Became known for his rhythm sections
Performed head arrangements

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West End Blues

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1928
Louis Armstrong
New Orleans Jazz

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Rhapsody In Blue

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1924
George Gershwin
Concert Music

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Walking Blues

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1937
Robert Johnson
Country Blues

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Corrine, Corrina

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1940
Bob Willis
Western Swing

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So Long, It’s Been Good to Know You

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1940
Woody Guthrie
Folk Song

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Morning on the Ranch

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1948
Aaron Copland
Film Music

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People will Say We’re in Love

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Rodgers and Hammerstein

Broadway Show tune

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22
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Lester Leaps in

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1939
Lester Young
Kansas City Swing

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What is pandiatonic music?

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Music that uses the diatonic scale

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What are head arrangements?

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An adaptation of a previously written song

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Who is John Hammond?

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He helped discover Count Basie

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Who is Lester Young?

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Changed melodies and kept rest of song

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27
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What were crooners?

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People who sang softly into the microphone

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28
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Who is Louis Armstong

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Sang scat

Main man in Jazz

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29
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Who is Billie Holiday?

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Known for interperation

30
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What is back phrasing?

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Coming in late during the song, gives more time for interpreting melodies and putting feeling into the song

31
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What is blues form and history?

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Created by rural southern blacks
Call and response between vocals and instruments
Variety of vocal timbres

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Who was WC Handy?

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He was a business man that brought blues to the rest of the United States

33
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What are race records?

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Records that were marketed towards a certain race

34
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Bessie Smith

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Greatest classic blues singer

35
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What is classic blues?

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Emphasizes Jazz elements

36
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Who is Ralph Peer?

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Recorded “Fiddlin John Carson
Became a hit known as hillbilly music
Bristol Sessions

37
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What were the Bristol sessions?

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Found the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers

38
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Who was the Carter Family?

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Band that became famous for copyrighting old time music

39
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What is Carter style?

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Thumb and brush picking on guitar

40
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Who was Jimmie Rodgers?

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One of the first big country stars

41
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What is popular song?

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Show tunes that have survived through today

42
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What is showboat?

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Showed balcks and mulattos in an anti sterotypical way

43
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What are country blues?

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A simple form of blues where vocals are accompanied with a guitar

44
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Who is Robert Johnson?

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Wrote Walking Blues

Slide guitar

45
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Who is Thomas A. Dorsey?

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Father of gospel music

46
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What is gospel music?

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Became a starting point for other African American traditions
roots are spirituals, blues, and ring shouts

47
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What were border blasters?

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Us radio stations that were locating over texas border

Had powerful signals not allowed in United States

48
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What were singing cowboys?

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Country stars were dressed as cowboys

49
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Who was Gene Autry?

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Famous country singing star

50
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What is western Swing a combination of?

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Fiddle music
Blues
Jazz
Tin Pan Alley
Polka
Mexican genres
51
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Who is John Lomax

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Focused on recording black folk songs

Worked for the Library of congress Music Devision

52
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Who is Alan Lomax?

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John’s son
He took over his father’s recording job
Folk music was a force for change

53
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Who is Woody Guthrie?

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Wrote this land is your land

Politically inspired songs

54
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Who is Leo Ornsetin?

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Produced radically modern works
Mainly solo piano
Atonal
Tone clusters
Highly dissonant
No strict forms
55
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What are tone clusters?

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A chord containing a number of closely related notes

56
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Who was Henry Cowell?

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Was famous for playing tone clusters

Hammering with fists on piano

57
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WHat is the frontline of jazz?

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Cornet, Clarinet and trombone

58
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Jellyroll Morton

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Improvisation is important but don’t discard the melody

59
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Duke Ellington

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Known for tone color and making the group his instrument

60
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Toscanini

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Greatest conductor of all time

Conducted for radio, tv and recordings

61
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Who is Serge Koussevitzky?

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Encouraged american composers

62
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Who is Leopold Stokowski?

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Champion of 20th century music

63
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What was the Federal Music Project?

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Helped employ struggeling musicians and spread music

64
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Who is Aaron Copland

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Felt that the contemporary music and the public were too far apart and sought to write accessible classical music
Wrote on American themes

65
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What is dissonant counterpart?

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Voices are harmonically linked but independent in rhythm and contour
Charles Seeger

66
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George Gerswhin

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Wrote for hollywood

Rhapsody in Blue

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Importance of Rhapsody in Blue

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Blues as popular song form
The spread of jazz as an instrumental music
The push for modernism in the classical sphere

68
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Harlem Renaissance

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Black musicians worked to establish a place in the concert hall

69
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William Grant Still

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Black composer with Harlem Renaissance

70
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James P. Johnson

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Created stride piano

71
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What is a cutting contest?

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Piano off

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