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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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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?
He helped discover Count Basie
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Who is Lester Young?
Changed melodies and kept rest of song
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What were crooners?
People who sang softly into the microphone
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Who is Louis Armstong
Sang scat | Main man in Jazz
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Who is Billie Holiday?
Known for interperation
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What is back phrasing?
Coming in late during the song, gives more time for interpreting melodies and putting feeling into the song
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What is blues form and history?
Created by rural southern blacks Call and response between vocals and instruments Variety of vocal timbres
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Who was WC Handy?
He was a business man that brought blues to the rest of the United States
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What are race records?
Records that were marketed towards a certain race
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Bessie Smith
Greatest classic blues singer
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What is classic blues?
Emphasizes Jazz elements
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Who is Ralph Peer?
Recorded "Fiddlin John Carson Became a hit known as hillbilly music Bristol Sessions
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What were the Bristol sessions?
Found the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers
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Who was the Carter Family?
Band that became famous for copyrighting old time music
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What is Carter style?
Thumb and brush picking on guitar
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Who was Jimmie Rodgers?
One of the first big country stars
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What is popular song?
Show tunes that have survived through today
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What is showboat?
Showed balcks and mulattos in an anti sterotypical way
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What are country blues?
A simple form of blues where vocals are accompanied with a guitar
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Who is Robert Johnson?
Wrote Walking Blues | Slide guitar
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Who is Thomas A. Dorsey?
Father of gospel music
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What is gospel music?
Became a starting point for other African American traditions roots are spirituals, blues, and ring shouts
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What were border blasters?
Us radio stations that were locating over texas border | Had powerful signals not allowed in United States
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What were singing cowboys?
Country stars were dressed as cowboys
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Who was Gene Autry?
Famous country singing star
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What is western Swing a combination of?
``` Fiddle music Blues Jazz Tin Pan Alley Polka Mexican genres ```
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Who is John Lomax
Focused on recording black folk songs | Worked for the Library of congress Music Devision
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Who is Alan Lomax?
John's son He took over his father's recording job Folk music was a force for change
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Who is Woody Guthrie?
Wrote this land is your land | Politically inspired songs
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Who is Leo Ornsetin?
``` Produced radically modern works Mainly solo piano Atonal Tone clusters Highly dissonant No strict forms ```
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What are tone clusters?
A chord containing a number of closely related notes
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Who was Henry Cowell?
Was famous for playing tone clusters | Hammering with fists on piano
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WHat is the frontline of jazz?
Cornet, Clarinet and trombone
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Jellyroll Morton
Improvisation is important but don't discard the melody
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Duke Ellington
Known for tone color and making the group his instrument
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Toscanini
Greatest conductor of all time | Conducted for radio, tv and recordings
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Who is Serge Koussevitzky?
Encouraged american composers
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Who is Leopold Stokowski?
Champion of 20th century music
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What was the Federal Music Project?
Helped employ struggeling musicians and spread music
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Who is Aaron Copland
Felt that the contemporary music and the public were too far apart and sought to write accessible classical music Wrote on American themes
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What is dissonant counterpart?
Voices are harmonically linked but independent in rhythm and contour Charles Seeger
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George Gerswhin
Wrote for hollywood | Rhapsody in Blue
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Importance of Rhapsody in Blue
Blues as popular song form The spread of jazz as an instrumental music The push for modernism in the classical sphere
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Harlem Renaissance
Black musicians worked to establish a place in the concert hall
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William Grant Still
Black composer with Harlem Renaissance
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James P. Johnson
Created stride piano
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What is a cutting contest?
Piano off

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