Musc 113 - Mid-Term

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Syncopation

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Shifting melodic accents onto off-beats

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Verse

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Musical section sung to a fixed melody

- In Tin Pan Alley, it sets dramatic tone

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Refrain

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= Chorus

- In Tin Pan Alley, a form that fused elements of verse and chorus with AABA form

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Strophic

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Many voices or verses set to a repeating melody

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Radio

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1920s electromagnetic technology

- unified national popular music

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Hook

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Short riff or phrase that hooks the listener's ear

- Most exciting part of song

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Riff

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Short repeated phrase to create rhythmic momentum

- Common in African American music

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Melody

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2 contrasting repeated phrases

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Call-and-Response

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Succession of 2 distinct musical phrases and voices

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Blue notes

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Musical genre associated with black communities in the deep south in 19th century

- Bent or flattened tone

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Song pluggers

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Promoted songs and persuaded people to perform

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Bar Blues

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music that has a particular sequence of chords heard within a rhythmic pattern of 12, four beat measures

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Big Band

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Dance music in the 1930s and 40s

- wind instruments rhythm section

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Improvisation

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promotes exchange between performances and audiences

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beat

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a main accent or rhythmic unit

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Stop-time

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pattern interrupting the normal time

- Occasionally in ragtime

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George Washington Dixon

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He rose as a blackface performer and is known for his song, "Zip Coon"

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Thomas Dartmouth Rice

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Minstrelsy genre and Jim Crow becomes first international American hit song

- Grew up in poor family

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James Bland

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Black songwriter and composer of 700 songs

- "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny"

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John P. Souza

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Most popular band leader from 1890 through WWI

- U.S. Marine band conductor

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Stephen Foster

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Composed 200 songs from 1840-1860 and was the first to become successful in songwriting. Known for Parlor Song and was the first important composer of American Popular Song

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James Reese Europe

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"Martin Luther King of music"

"Castle House Rag"

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Joseph King Oliver

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cornetist and mentor to Louis Armstrong

- Creole Jazz Band and "Dipper Mouth Blues"

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Louis Armstrong

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singer/cornetist, known as Satchmo

- Artistic and commercial sides of jazz

- 6 decade music career

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Paul Whiteman

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"King of Jazz"

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Al Jolson

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"world's greatest entertainer"

- Most popular performer of his generation

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Bing Crosby

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Popular crooner known for a silky, gentle voice that suggests intimacy

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George Gershwin

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"I Got Rhythm"

- Important Tin Pan Alley composer

-AABA melodic structure

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Irving Berlin

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Left Russia because of anti-jewish program

- Creative Tin Pan Alley composer

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Gene Austin

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"My Blue Heaven" performer

- Tin Pan Alley

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W.C. Handy

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"Father of the Blues"

- Influenced by the African American musical folk traditions that he experienced during his travel

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Bessie Smith

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Blues Singer

- Rough and rumble voice and associated with black Vaudeville

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Blind Lemon Jefferson

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Nasal, yet clear vocal style and associated with East Texas Blues

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Carter family

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country music

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Jimmie Rodgers

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Early country music's biggest recording star

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Benny Goodman

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"King of Swing"

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Robert Johnson

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myth that he sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads to achieve success, great guitarist

- "Mississippi Delta Blues"

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Bob Wills

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... and His Texas Playboys

- Fiddler and bandleader

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Fletcher Henderson

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created with the rise of swing

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Glenn Miller

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Big Band musician

-12 bar blues

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Xavier Cugat

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Did the most to popularize Latin music during the swing era