Popular Music

Question 1

Is the music from 1800 to 1950.

Answer 1

Popular Music

Question 2

Popular music is the most in line with the…

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tastes and interest of the urban middle class, accessible to a wide audience.

Question 3

This would include an extremely wide range of music from vaudeville and minstrel shows to heavy metal.

Answer 3

Popular music

Question 4

Different Forms Of Popular Music

• enumerate

Answer 4

Ballad
Standard
Rock and Roll
Alternative Music
Disco

Question 5

Different Forms Of Popular Music

• Define Ballad

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Ballad is any light, simple song, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody

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Different Forms Of Popular Music

It is usually sung or performed in _______ or ________ emotion

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Ballad; romantic or sentimental emotion

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Different Forms Of Popular Music

It was originally a narrative folk song.

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Ballad

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The Term “ballad” is often synonymous with any ____ song

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Love song

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Different Forms Of Popular Music

• Examples of ballad music

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• “The Ballad of Billy the Kid” by Billy Joel
• “American Pie” by Don McLean

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Standard is also known as _________ or ________

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Pop Standards or Jazz Standards

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Different Forms Of Popular Music

traditional compositions that originated from 1910s.

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Standard

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The earliest standards in ____________ show tunes.

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Standard; Broadway Hollywood

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With the advent of big band swing music in the mid 1930s, ___________ took the form of a more soothing performance style with such legendary crooners

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Pop standards

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Legendary crooners of pop standards, each backed by standard jazz orchestration.

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• Frank Sinatra
• Bing Crosby
• Dean Martin,

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Different Forms Of Popular Music

Rock and roll often usually written as…

Answer 15

rock & roll or rock ‘n’ roll

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Different Forms Of Popular Music

a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the _______ during the late _______ and _____.

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Rock and roll; United States; 1940-50’s

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It is combination of African – American genres such as blues, jump blues, jazz, and Western swing and country music.

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Rock and roll

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Different Forms Of Popular Music

Proponents of this genre includes…

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• Elvis Presley
• Bill Haley
• His Comets
• The Beattles
• Beach Boys

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Different Forms Of Popular Music

______ music is an umbrella term for underground music that emerged in the punk rock movement during the mid- 90s

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Alternative

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Different Forms Of Popular Music

Alternative is considered to be rock, because…

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some of influences have been folk music, reggae, electronic, and jazz among others

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Different Forms Of Popular Music

A genre of dance- oriented pop music.

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Disco

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Different Forms Of Popular Music

Disco may be described as having…

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soaring and reverberated vocals over a steady four-on-the-floor beat

Question 23

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Disco returned dancing to the…

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forefront music

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The genre emerged out of an urban subculture in the early 1970s

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Disco

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Different Forms Of Popular Music

It is the number one best- selling soundtrack of all time, turned disco into a mainstream music genre

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“Saturday Night Fever”