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Unit 7 Flashcards

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  • A song form used in folk music
  • tells a story that contains a lesson
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Ballad

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  • a style of small group jazz
  • fast moving harmonies
  • angular Melodies
  • complex rhythms
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Bebop

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  • large jazz ensemble (15-20 members)
  • popular in 1930s-1940s
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Big Band

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  • a variation of country music
  • fiddle, guitar, mandolin, bass guitar, 5 string banjo
  • Appalachian region
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Bluegrass

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  • style of music in 20th century
  • began to form for African American work songs, field hollers, and spirituals
  • Today: loosely refers to feeling sad, to any song in this style/form
  • 12 bar strophic form
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Blues

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  • style of music theater
  • integrated a cohesive plot with songs and dances that advance the plot
  • specifically refers to the street in New York
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Broadway Musical

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  • folk song designed to teach a simple lesson
  • simple and easy to sing
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Children’s Songs

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  • a mixture of rock rhythm sections and a singer with country accent
  • topic: traditional country
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Contemporary Country

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  • jazz, gospel, and funk that uses electronic instruments, drums, horns, and vocal
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Contemporary R&B

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  • describes a broad variety of musical styles including Bluegrass, Hillbilly, and contemporary country
  • most that fall in this category: originated in the American south
  • features a singing style with a distinctly rural southern accent, instrumentation (favoring strings)
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Country

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  • music written for dancing
  • instrumentation of various type of folk dance music
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Dance Music

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  • early form of jazz
  • developed in New Orleans
  • syncopated rhythms
  • improvised solos/harmony
  • trumpet, clarinet, saxophone, trombone, tuba, banjo, guitar, piano, drums
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Dixieland

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  • term used to describe wide variety of musical forms that developed within different cultures
  • passed down
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Folk Music

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  • early form of country
  • alternative jazz and dance of 1920s
  • wholesome music of the “good ol days”
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Hillbilly Music

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  • country combo style that became popular in the 1940s-1950s
  • originally performed in saloons known as “honkytonks”
  • topics: infidelity and drinking
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Honky Tonk Music

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  • the act of creating Melodies and harmonies on the spot without reading music
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Improvisation

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  • An American form of theater developed in the nineteenth century
  • featuring white people in blackface
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Minstrel Show

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  • type of dramatic performance that tells a story through dialogue
  • singing and dancing added for support
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Musical Theatre

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  • developed in 19th century
  • required classically trained singers
  • featured less complex music
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Operetta

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  • folk song written to directly or suggest talk about injustice
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Protest Song

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  • musical genre developed near the turn of the 20th century
  • syncopated rhythms
  • nationally popular
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Ragtime

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  • form of spoken word delivered over a beat
  • can be improvised
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Rap

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  • term originally referring to music recorded by black musicians and intended for the AA community
  • evolved or encompass many styles like soul and funk
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Rhythm and Blues

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  • style that grew from R&B and came into prominence during the 1950s
  • the style features a strong backbeat and electric guitar, bass, drums
  • got shortened and now has many sub genres
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Rock n Roll

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  • technique in which a clip of a preexisting song is isolated and looped
  • often as a background for a rapper
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Sampling

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  • the technique of improvising a rhythmic solo on the one turntable over a beat
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Scratching

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  • a term used to describe the rhythmic bounce in jazz
  • also refers to the big band music
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Swing

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  • The act of disrupting the normal pattern of accents in a piece of music by emphasizing what would normally be weak beats
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Syncopation

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  • Style of country music developed in western cities
  • borrowed instruments from the dance band
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Western Swing

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  • A type of folk song devised to help groups of people perform physical work.
  • music usually uses tempo of the work
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Work Songs

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Stan Kenton, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller

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Big Band Leaders

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In the 1940s , it was difficult for band leaders to find good musicians. Why?

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The war

33
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Colonial times music was

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Illegal

34
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What is one of the first important rap recordings

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Rappers Delight

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