Listening to Music Quiz 7 Flashcards
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
Composer - wrote under Mrs. H.A.A. Beach after married
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
innovative but no one after him explores his style
uses polytonality before Stravinsky
dissonant and atonal at times
plays two different parts at once - one marching band leaving and another coming on
Gershwin
Wrote Broadway musicals
Wrote first American folk opera: Porgy and Bess
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger
wrote ballets
Leonard Bernstein
studied under Copland
conductor and composer
West Side Story
jazz origins
rhythm
pitch bends - west african musical tradition
-blue notes - inflected tones
where are pitch bends found originally?
work songs
field hollers
what do these origins give way to?
blues - delta blues
delta blues
standard set of chord changes
Robert Johnson
ragime
Scott Joplin
syncopation
Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
“Pops,” “Satchmo”
Swing Era
tunes are written out
riffs - repeated statement
Benny Goodman (1909-1986)
most well-known director in the swing era
Duke Ellington (1899-1974)
composed lots of different kinds of music under the jazz unbrella
Bebop
grew out of jam sessions during the swing era
- highly technical music
- improvisation
- more about personal expression
