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22 Cards in this Set
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American Missionary Association
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set up schools and taught newly freed men how to read and write
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Fisk Jubilee Singers
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Group of African American singers who presented spirituals to the world after slavery
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Call and response
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Style of singing in which a melody sung by one singer is responded to or echoed by one or more singers
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Buzz
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the means of producing a sound on the trumpet and all brass instruments
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Blues
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a style of music that evolved from southern African-American secular songs
usually distinguished by: -a strong 4/4 rhythm -flatted thirds and sevenths -12 bar structure -lyrics in a three-line stanza in which the second line repeats the first |
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Blue notes
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note sung or played at a lower pitch than those of the major scale
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Arpeggio
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the sounding of notes of a chord in rapid succession ascending/descending
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the beat
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synonymous with pulse
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Backbeat
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emphasizing beats 2 and 4 in a four beat rhythm
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Collective Improvisation
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New Orleans style where multiple artists are improvising; many different melodies at one time
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Chattel
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Personal property either movable or immovable
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2nd line
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bass, drums associated the funeral procession
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Harmony
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different pitches and chords simultaneously
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Blues Chords
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I, IV, and V
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Jim Crow Laws
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Segregating black in US
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Lick or Riff
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short melodic idea; too short to be a melody
associated with New Orleans music |
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Melisma
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technique of changing the note/pitch of a single syllable of text while its being sung
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Meter
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group of pulses
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Metrical accent
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emphasis on beat 1 of the downbeat
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Minstrelsy
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popular form of entertainment in late 19th century where whites painted faces and mocked blacks
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New Orleans Rhythm Kings (NORK)
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all white band that played New Orleans style music
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Mute
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device put into brass instruments to make it sound like a voice
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