Midterm 1 Flashcards
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Piano
A
- percussion
2
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Guitar
A
- lute
3
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Drums
A
- percussion
4
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Bass
A
- electric
5
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Trumpet and Trombone
A
- Brass
- 3 valve (trumpet): higher
- slide (trombone): lower
6
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Saxophone
A
- woodwind
7
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Marching Band
A
- 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
A
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
13
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Cool Jazz
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- Calm response to BeBop
- Popularized by Miles Davis
- “Birth of the Cool”
14
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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
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John Phillip Sousa
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- Marching Band
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Scott Joplin
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- Ragtime composer
- pianist
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King Oliver
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- Early Jazz, Trumpet
- Helped discover Louis Armstrong
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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
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Benny Goodman
- Clarinet
- desegregated (white)
- Big Band Leader
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Glen Miller
- Trombone
- White
- Army, airforce orchestra
- WWII
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Charlie Parker
- Saxophone
| - Father of BeBop
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Art Blakey and Jazz Messengers
- Hard Bop
| - "Jazz University"
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Big Band
- 5 Saxes (melody)
- 5 Trombones (Brass)
- 5 Trumpets (Brass)
- Full rhythm Section
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Small Group
- Rhythm section and wind players
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Hard Bop
- Later form of BeBop
| - More audience friendly
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Collective Improvisation
- More than one soloist playing at once
33
Bonus:
- Frank Sinatra
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Billie Holiday
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Rhythm Section
- Piano, drums, guitar, bass, drums
| - Help keep time
35
Fletcher Henderson
- Pianist
- Early big band leader
- "Wrappin' it up" (First big band hit)
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"Stars and Stripes"
- John Philip Sousa
| - Very Patriotic tune
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"Dixie Jass Band One-Step"
- Original Dixieland Jazz Band
- Old timey sounds
- Not great quality
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"Dipper Mouth Blues"
- King Oliver
| - down by the river feel to it
39
"West End Blues"
- Louis Armstrong
| - Starts off with trumpet solo
40
"Chattanooga Choo Choo"
- Glenn Miller
| - Starts off with train noices
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"Caravan"
- Duke Ellington
| - constant sound in background with overlapping trumpet sound
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"One O' Clock Jump"
- Count Basie
| - starts with piano
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"Confirmation"
- Charlie Parker Quartet
| - elevator music
44
"Moanin'"
- Art Blakey
| - call and response
45
"Boplicity"
- Miles Davis
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