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when did classical music start rising |
the mid-late 19th century |
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conservatories |
places to go and study music |
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early on, the composer doubled as a
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conductor |
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later on, the __________ was its own job |
conductor |
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What did the New York Symphony try to do? |
shift towards sophisticated music |
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what did john payne do |
in 1875 he was the first univeristy chair at harvard |
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this was the time of the |
virtuoso |
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virtuoso |
master of their instrument |
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character piece |
shorter conciertos/symphonies composed for the piano |
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character pieces were used for not just music, they were used for |
stylized dances |
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American virtuoso Louis Gottschalk life |
had a sophisticated upbringing got denied in euprpean school once but the second time they took him european training made him popular in the US less sophisticated audiences but very american music |
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composers of the second new england school |
john knowles payne amy beech cheney |
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Edward McDowell |
studied pretty much everywhere in europe was not included in the second NE school |
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Edward McDowell didn't believe that ________ could be found in songs |
nationalism music reflects composer, not a country |
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what university did mcdowell work at |
Columbia |
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what happened when McDowell took a year off from columbia? |
they replaced him and then he got hit by a taxi and died |
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McDowell Colony |
Mcdowell wanted other artists to have a sanctuary to do their work so his wife turned their farm into such in 1907 |
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Tin Pan Alley had |
popular music |
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Vaudeville |
traveling family acts |
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popular song form |
verse chorus |
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tin pan alley composers |
cohan gerschwins joplin kern mercer |
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George Gerschwin was in the ______ period |
contemporary |
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concierto |
solo instrument with orchestra |
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retonello |
returned (repeating theme) |
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stride |
type of jazz piano style |
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george gerschwin wrote |
the music |
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ira wrote |
the lyrics |
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what opera did they write |
porgy and bess |
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Irving Berlin |
Self taught pianist who was likeable and business savvy |
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songs berlin wrote |
god bless america puttin on the ritz white christmas alexander's ragtime band |
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what did country music come from |
folk, ragtime, and early blues/jazz |
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how did country music become comemrcialized |
through technology records radio |
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old time country |
music passed down orally through generations |
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other types of country |
mountain, western, cowboy, honky tonk, bluegrass |
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how was music spread by the mountain people |
word of mouth |
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how was music spread to mainland after the civil war |
people working on railroads sang their songs and city people started working in the mountains |
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Ralph Pearce |
pioneered the recordings out in the mountains |
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Carter family |
a family that sang tight harmonies, and were nasaly, recorded by ralph pearce. first group to be in the country music hall of fame |
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jimmy rogers |
the blue yodel. Also recorded by ralph pearce, first soloist in the country music hall of fame and had super authentic music |
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bluegrass |
traditionally instrumental twangy and high pitched harmonies |
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bill monroe |
country and rock and roll hall of fame girst ever grammy for bluegrass |
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patsy klien |
country woman who was popular in country music and popular music first female in country hall of fame |
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roy rogers and the sons of the pioneers |
a way for people to idealize the old west. cowboys on tv |
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gene aughtry wrote |
rodulph |
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son of the pioneers was also a |
band. Roy rogers was the lead singer and bob nolan was in it too |
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whats roach's fave song |
ghost riders in the sky |
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what were the blues influenced by |
spirituals |
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what did blues focus on |
an earthly life |
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12 bar blues pattern |
AAB, based on 3 chords. first chord repeated, second chord, |
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urban blues |
all about getting pretty, singing about everything. female singers |
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rural blues (or delta blues) |
mostly sung by males, focused on a guitar/single instrument |
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bessie smith |
joined a traveling show, female blues singer |
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Robert johnson |
influencer of a lot of modern bands, he was a really great guitarist even though he sucked at first. his lyrics were the best and he took lots of vocal liberties |
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ragtime form |
march form, ABD 16 bars with C as a trio |
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ragtime used a rythym called |
syncopation. one TWO three FOUR, dance music ttempo |
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Scott Joplin info |
he was known as the king of ragtime and studied classical music in his upbringing. He was african american and made a lot of money but his publishers cheated him out |
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where is the birthplace of jazz |
new orleans in the red light district |
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west african influences of jazz |
call and response work songs |
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jazz is 100% |
american |
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where would poeple gather in NOLA on sundays to sing jazz |
conga square |
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french creoles |
more status than creoles of color, they lived in the cities |
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red light district |
where all the poeple came to patry and do jazz in NOLA |
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New orleans dixieland jazz form |
flat 4 and 12 bar blues |
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what were the outside tradition of NOLA dixieland jazz |
bands, funerals, dances, socials |
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what was the performance style of dixieland |
no introduction, syncopated improvisation |
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front line of dixieland NOLA |
cornet clarinet trombone |
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rhythm section |
banjo tuba snare/bass drum |
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louis armstrong played the |
cornet at first |
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when did storyland (red light district) shut down> |
1917 |
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where did louis armstrong end up |
he went to chicago then he went to NYC as a soloist |
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chicago style dixieland form |
2/4 syncopation 12 bar blues intro is standard |
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singing/instrument wise, what did chicago dixieland focus on more than NOLA style? |
focus on the soloist, scat singing |
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front line of chicago dixieland |
cornet/trumpet clarinet trombone saxophone |
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rhythm section for chicago dixieland |
piano guitar double bass drum set |
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when was the first jazz recording |
1917 |
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where was the first jazz recording |
NYC |
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what was the first jazz recording |
barnyard blues |
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whats the austin heights gang |
a bunch of upperclass white students who would gather togehter and learn jazz |
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when did big band/swing bands become popular? |
1930s-early 40s |
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what was the performance style of big band music? |
sections of instruments vocalists riffs limited improvisation |
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what was the form of big band music |
flat four swing rhythms |
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front line of big band |
trumpet sax trombone clarinet solo |
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rhythm section of big band |
piano guitar double bass drum set |
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Cal Basey |
moved piano away from stride form, lots of riffs and started comping PIANO |
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comping |
complementary chords played occasionally |
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Glen Miller |
Sweet band, became an army captain to improve morale TROMBONE |
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Benny Goodman |
trained in clarinet born very poor but niqqa he made it had a trio but they couldnt preform on TV because one of the guys was black |
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Duke ellington |
PIANO cotton club in NYC |
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Bebop |
1940s as a revolution against big bands very agressive, almost all improv playing for themselves, not for the people |
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cool jazz |
west coast jazz more relaxed than bebop whatever instruments you want |
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hard bop |
coltrane long solos |
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march form |
Introduction A: 16 bars twice B: 16 bars twice C: trio D: Break/contrast |
