Around the turn of the 1930s, music took an interesting ride with the earliest fully documented particular style of Jazz music emerging, which was centered in New Orleans, Louisiana; swing. It was not only a musical pastime, but a way of life; as those who brought it to us will live on forever. Duke Ellington was a pioneer of Renaissance jazz and one of the great elite jazz artists of his time. His most popular 1930 piece was "It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing". Around 1931, he began developing the Swing style and was responsible for transforming the rhythm, make-up of the band, and the time of the pieces. The rhythmic ensemble originally consisted of a piano, tuba, banjo, and drums. However, Ellington managed to change it in order to include a string base instead of a tuba; as the guitar was later added to replace the banjo.
The "march" time of 2/4 was then taken out and replaced with a more preferable laid back, steady 4/4 time. In this style, the trumpet carried the melody, the clarinet played the showy countermelodies, and the trombone played the rhythmic slides and sounded the root notes of chords or simple harmony. Below this basic trio, the tuba or string bass provided a bass line and drums the rhythmic accompaniment. New Orleans jazz was just the beginning of an entire sweep across the county; which led to …show more content…
Also developed in the Baroque period was the solo concerto. These 2 concerto movements can be derived somewhat from a type of late Renaissance and mostly early Baroque instrumental composition called the ricercar. It is based on the principle of contrast between two groups, or sounds of different sounds; and at the same time, dynamics. The classical concerto and the Baroque concerto do not differ greatly from one
The "march" time of 2/4 was then taken out and replaced with a more preferable laid back, steady 4/4 time. In this style, the trumpet carried the melody, the clarinet played the showy countermelodies, and the trombone played the rhythmic slides and sounded the root notes of chords or simple harmony. Below this basic trio, the tuba or string bass provided a bass line and drums the rhythmic accompaniment. New Orleans jazz was just the beginning of an entire sweep across the county; which led to …show more content…
Also developed in the Baroque period was the solo concerto. These 2 concerto movements can be derived somewhat from a type of late Renaissance and mostly early Baroque instrumental composition called the ricercar. It is based on the principle of contrast between two groups, or sounds of different sounds; and at the same time, dynamics. The classical concerto and the Baroque concerto do not differ greatly from one