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Midterm 1 Flashcards

1
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Piano

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  • percussion
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Guitar

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  • lute
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Drums

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  • percussion
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Bass

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  • electric
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5
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Trumpet and Trombone

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  • Brass
  • 3 valve (trumpet): higher
  • slide (trombone): lower
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6
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Saxophone

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  • woodwind
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7
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Marching Band

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  • John Phillip Sousa
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Ragtime

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  • Early Predecessor of Jazz

- Scott Joplin

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Early New Orleans Jazz

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  • King Oliver
  • Original Dixieland (first recorded white band)
  • Louis Armstrong
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Hard Bop and Cool Jazz

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Response to BeBop

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BeBop

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  • Solo Heairy, after WWII
  • Starting in the 1940’s
  • Small group improvisation
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Afro Jazz

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  • Latin Cuban
  • Jazz and Cuban
  • Popular in the 1940’s
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13
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Cool Jazz

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  • Calm response to BeBop
  • Popularized by Miles Davis
  • “Birth of the Cool”
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Duke Ellington

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  • Classical, DC,
  • pianists
  • “Anatomy of a murderer”
  • Most Successful film
  • No role cameo
  • Wrote music for music
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Count Basie

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  • Kansas City
  • Piano
  • Big Band Era
  • Evolves into pop role, doesn’t leave jazz
  • Frank Sinatra
  • 1960’s
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Singers (who sing Jazz songs)

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  • Frank Sinatra
  • Pop, great voices
  • Big Band
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Jazz and Singers

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  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Billie Holiday
  • Use voice similar to an instrument
  • Improvisation
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Ella Fitzgerald

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  • Scat
  • “How high the moon”
  • Had wide range with voice
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Billie Holiday

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  • smaller, grit voice
  • relaxed scat singing
  • composed, wrote and co-wrote much of the music she sang
  • Creating music for sake of creating art
  • 1940’s
  • “Strange Fruit” - About the lynching of her father
20
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John Phillip Sousa

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  • Marching Band
21
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Scott Joplin

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  • Ragtime composer

- pianist

22
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King Oliver

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  • Early Jazz, Trumpet

- Helped discover Louis Armstrong

23
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Louis Armstrong

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  • Trumpet

- “Father of Jazz”

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Duke Ellington

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  • East Coast (DC)

- Big Band Era

25
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Benny Goodman

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  • Clarinet
  • desegregated (white)
  • Big Band Leader
26
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Glen Miller

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  • Trombone
  • White
  • Army, airforce orchestra
  • WWII
27
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Charlie Parker

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  • Saxophone

- Father of BeBop

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Art Blakey and Jazz Messengers

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  • Hard Bop

- “Jazz University”

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Big Band

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  • 5 Saxes (melody)
  • 5 Trombones (Brass)
  • 5 Trumpets (Brass)
  • Full rhythm Section
30
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Small Group

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  • Rhythm section and wind players
31
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Hard Bop

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  • Later form of BeBop

- More audience friendly

32
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Collective Improvisation

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  • More than one soloist playing at once
33
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Bonus:

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  • Frank Sinatra
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Billie Holiday
34
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Rhythm Section

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  • Piano, drums, guitar, bass, drums

- Help keep time

35
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Fletcher Henderson

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  • Pianist
  • Early big band leader
  • “Wrappin’ it up” (First big band hit)
36
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“Stars and Stripes”

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  • John Philip Sousa

- Very Patriotic tune

37
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“Dixie Jass Band One-Step”

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  • Original Dixieland Jazz Band
  • Old timey sounds
  • Not great quality
38
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“Dipper Mouth Blues”

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  • King Oliver

- down by the river feel to it

39
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“West End Blues”

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  • Louis Armstrong

- Starts off with trumpet solo

40
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“Chattanooga Choo Choo”

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  • Glenn Miller

- Starts off with train noices

41
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“Caravan”

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  • Duke Ellington

- constant sound in background with overlapping trumpet sound

42
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“One O’ Clock Jump”

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  • Count Basie

- starts with piano

43
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“Confirmation”

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  • Charlie Parker Quartet

- elevator music

44
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“Moanin’”

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  • Art Blakey

- call and response

45
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“Boplicity”

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  • Miles Davis

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