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24 Cards in this Set
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Maple Leaf Rag
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Scott Joplin
-fast-paced and happy -sounds like the circus kinda -lots of saxaphones, trumpets and tuba |
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Excerpts from Treemonisha
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Scott Joplin
-opera, deep voice, slow, gospel -like |
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
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Irving Berlin
-"Oh ma honey" |
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Castle House Rag
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James Reese Europe
-sounds like band performance -clicking instrument -march-like and also rag |
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Swing Along
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Will Marion Cook
-catchy and fun -swing along chillun |
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Nobody
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Bert Williams
-mostly speaking with background music |
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Blue Skies
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Irving Berlin
-self-explanatory -frank sinatra sings it |
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What Is This Thing Called Love?
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Cole Porter
-jazz |
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St. Louis Blues
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W.C Handy
-band-like sound, kinda sounds like jazz -upbeat |
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Ionisation
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-Edgard Varese
-Percussion soft and then loud with whiney door creaky sound |
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String Quartet 1931, movement 4
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-Ruth Crawford Seeger
-Solo violin with short loud lines that grow longer and softer while other strings go from soft and long to loud and short |
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Sonatas and Interludes, Sonata no. 2
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-John Cage
-weird sharp muted piano(?) notes and a bongo like drum sound |
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Williams Mix
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-John Cage
-sounds like changing dials of a radio, static, voices, ribbits |
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Barstow
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-Harry Partch
-"It's january 26th..." -talking and xylophone |
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String Quartet no. 4, "Amazing Grace"
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-Ben Johnston
-Amazing grace played by strings |
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Study no. 25
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-Conlon Nancarrow
-plucked piano strings and short sharp swipes |
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In C
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-Terry Riley
-same note over and over and then horn like sound comes in with same two notes -fuckin annoying |
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Different Trains
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-Steve Reich
-1st movement: harsh string, train whistle sound -2nd: harsh strings, talking voice in background saying something like "hand and foot"- hahaha laura it is saying "1940" not "hand and foot" -3rd: single violin joined by more and more; talking voice says "the war was over" |
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my funny valentine, hart and rodgers
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slow, low woman's voice. words make fun of an ugly woman. minor key
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excerpts from Showboat by kern and hammerstein II
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old man river: really low voice (man), slow, chorus is like "old man river, my old man river, he keeps on rolling along..."
make believe: back-and-forth btw man and woman. sounds like a song out of a typical musical. can't help lovin that man: starts with talking btw white and black women. white women starts singing and black woman adds in every now and then. lots of slides up and down in key |
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Gershwin, exceprts from Porgy and Bess
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it ain't necessarily so: starts with back and forth btw an ugly woman's voice and a choir of men. really low.
my man's gone now: opera woman's voice; she's mourning her man being gone. stereotypical opera soudning |
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The THing's our Fathers loved, by Charles Ives
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woman's voice singing opera, but differnet from one above bc she sounds happier. main chorus is variations on somehting about a "main street corner". switches between fast and slow parts
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The Unanswered Question, by Ives
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starts with violins playing really really soft and goes for awhile; trumpets come in with their "questions", flutes too. kind of eerie sounding. relaly slow
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The Banshee, by Cowell
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slides hands back and forth across piano strings. scary sounding
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