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13 Cards in this Set
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New Orleans Jazz background
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Created when multiple cultures living in New Orleans fused their aspects of music together to create a new genre
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New Orleans Jazz features
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Front line instruments improvising melodies over chord sequences, including trombone, cornet and clarinet. Accompanied by chordal instruments, such as the banjo or piano; drums were also someone's used
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Ragtime background
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In the 19th and 20th centuries the piano was becoming popular, and so sheet music for the public was in demand
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Ragtime features
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A mix of on-the-beat chords in an 'oompah' style and a syncopated melody
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Ragtime composers
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Scott Joplin (1868-1917) wrote Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer
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Early Blues background
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Originated in the Deep South of America as the music of African-American slaves
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Early Blues features
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Work songs used 'blue notes' similar to pentatonic melodies of African music, mixed with hymns taught to the slaves by their masters. Instruments were not always available, and so slaves had to make do with what they could find
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Tin Pan Alley background
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By 1900, Vaudeville and Light Operas were very popular. As the piano was becoming common in homes, demand for sheet music was increasing, and so composers wrote music based on the popular genres
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Tin Pan Alley features
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Consisted of piano music with sentimental lyrics. During WW1 patriotic songs became popular; Tin Pan Alley met the demand with songs such as 'It's a long way to Tipperary'
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Chicago Jazz background
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New Orleans Jazz did not become very popular until musicians such as Jerry Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong moved to Chicago and New York after WW1. The music became popular in clubs, where dances were held
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Chicago Jazz features
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Soloist took centre stage and the other musicians clearly supported him. Big Bands also began to appear, with Duke Ellington being a key person in this new music
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Swing background
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Radio offered a new way of enjoying music, and band leaders like Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, and Fletcher Henderson developed their bands in radio-friendly outfits
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Swing Features
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Swing was effectively the Big Band music of the 1930s, and was the popular music of the era
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