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26 Cards in this Set
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Alan Lomax
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Links music to pictures
Stimulus power of music created Canto-metrics Measurement of song Art = communication through symbols |
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"Good Art"
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Does it stand the test of time and generation.
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Native American Music
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No european or western scales or harmony
Imitated sounds of nature Cery little word singing Vocables speed sounds but not words |
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Pilgrims at plymouth rock
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1620
people here can't read or write, so they used stained glass to create pictures to tell a story Used folk melodies over and over again with different lyrics |
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Bay Psalm Book
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First book printed in america
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Pilgrims sang only in
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a capella
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Colonial America
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Millitary bands
Yankee doodle tune - britsh tune making fun of americans |
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William billings and james lyon
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brginnings of musical education in the united states
took old european system of solfage and changed it to the shape note system |
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Shape note system
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created by william billings and james lyon, shapes represented which note to sing in
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1800s
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Shape note singing
scared harp, most gamous shape note song book |
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The broad side
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Meaning to come up to another boat and suprise attack
like newspapers that people wrote to make fun of the british no music notes on them just lyrivcs because everyone knew the tunes |
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Singing Schools
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Created by Billings and Lyons
Traveled to ministries because the music was so terrible |
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Ballad Opera
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semi proffesionals singing and dancing was light and comical but not serious
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Slavery and Music
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West africa had music but no instruments
Music was a part of their faith energy of the ryhthm the beat of your heart |
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Instruments of afica
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Ralles, Bells and Drums
Drums can be used to send messages with high and low sounds also poetry was played on drums |
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European Barouche vs West African Rhythms
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Same period but reflective of the culture
Europe = stable, balances and everyone in place Africa = power struggle, instability and turmoil |
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how did European music get into the black community
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europeans gentlemen would bring slaves to college and bring them to classes including music class
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Black Church
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Only place that black community could come together safely
learned everything school wise here "african methodist episcopal Church" AME |
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Thomas Rice
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Minstrel show and defined for all of american what black culture was about
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Steven foster
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Through the lyrivs of his songs softened the view of black american and gave them feelings for people who didn't understand them at all
along with uncle tom's cabin a great pieve of literature that made us think differently about slavery led up to the civil war |
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NY city
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Steven Foster proved for the first time that you can make money as a composer
The industrial revolution gave us the ability for national stars to exist, before this it was hard to move producats from one side of the coutry to the others |
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Dialects Songs
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made to sound like a certain language
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Central European Jews
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created an industry for musical entertainment.
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Tin pan alley
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Street in NYC in the broadway district of all music stores - you went here to buy sheet music - that was all you bought during this time period
In the early 1900s song pluggers would wrap pieces of tin in the piano so that it would sound like the high end of a good stereo system - made it come alive and sound tinny they said that the whole street sounded like tin |
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Al jolson
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Early composer from tin pan alley
Brother can you spare a dime |
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Vaudeville
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Clean Family variety entertainement
collection of singers dancers and juggles dog acts 1930s to the 1950s |
