Midterm 1 Flashcards
“Sheep Sheep Don’t You Know the Road”
Bessie Jones (Georgia Sea Islands)
Call and Response/ Strophic/ Improve
Monophony/Homophony
“The Boatman’s Dance”
Dan Emmett
Minstrel Show song with Irish Influence
Monophony/Homophony
“Nobody”
Bert Williams 1913
Appeals to underdogs of all colors. A little bit of defiance.
Vaudeville
“Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair”
Stephan Foster (1854)
AA’BA
Sentimental Irish style
“After the Ball”
Charles Harris
Verse and Chorus (Verse AABA) Ballad
Sold millions of copies.
Triple Meter for Waltz
Tin Pan Alley
“Maple Leaf Rag”
Scott Joplin (1898)
Ragtime
Sectional Form
AABBACCDD
Syncopation
“Castle House Rag”
James Reese Europe
Clef Club
Rag Time
“Tiger Rag”
Original Dixieland Band (1918)
1st Commercial Recording of Jazz
Polyphonic
“Dippermouth Blues”
King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band (1923)
Featuring Louis Armstrong
12 bar blues
“Side by Side”
Paul Whiteman “The King of Jazz”
More Unified Texture
Mainstreaming of Jazz
“Mama’s Got the Blues”
Bessie Smith 12-bar blues harmonic form Ballad/Strophic AAB Text form Sexual Promiscuity
“West End Blues”
Earl Hines on Piano (1928) Louis Armstrong ( and His Hot Five) on Trumpet
“St. Louis Blues”
Bessie Smith (1929)
Composed by W.C Handy “Father of the Blues”
Louis Armstrong on Cornet
12 Bar blues w/ aab text
“Dark Was the Night”
Blind Willie Johnson
Bluesy Melody
Slide guitar- relationship between voice and guitar
“Cross Road Blues”
Robert Johnson (1936)
12 bar blues
aab text form
Relationship with guitar
“Soldier’s Joy”
Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers (1929)
Hoedown Hillbilly music
Strophic
Can the Circle be Unbroken
The Carter Family
Verse and Chorus
Monophony/Homophony
“Waiting For a Train”
Jimmie Rodgers (1928)
Yodeling
New Orleans Jazz Interlude
Hawaiian Steel Guitar
“Wrappin’ it Up”
Fletcher Henderson (1934)
Answering Riffs
Big Jazz Band
“New East St. Louis Toodle-oo”
Duke Ellington (1937)
Plunger Mute on Trumpet
AABA form twice through
Pleasure Gardens
European Entertainment that made way to US
Led to Variety shows and Concerts