Bebop

Learning Objectives: Cognitive- Students will be able to: • Apply the Associative property of multiplication to multiply. Psychomotor-Students will be able to: • Write the order of operation before applying the associative property to multiply. Affective-Students will be able to: • worked collaboratively and give each other help when needed. Academic Vocabulary: Associative property-- “When three or more numbers are multiplied, the product is the same regardless of the grouping of the…

Dylan Scallo Mrs. Glaser English 3 Honors 29 May 2015 Jazz comes in a variety of genres: dixieland, bebop, blues. Each genre contains its own unique quality that distinguishes itself from the rest, whether the difference is the steady beat of a drum, the focus on a pianist’s melody, or the fast tempo kept throughout a piece of music. The influx of jazz styles was welcomed by the people in the late twentieth century who appreciated a variety of music to choose from. The music reflects what was…

The BBC film documentary The Swing Thing, discusses the history of the Swing era and its process of inspiration among the music industry, American culture, and the revolution of the youth culture; along with stories of how this style of jazz became the first and most globally popular form of music in history. The film also depicts the overall development Swing had towards dance and the elements of music, such as creating a compelling rhythmic feel to the melody, for instance, “The riffs starts…

Knowledge acquired but thrown away, Hughes exposes the blatant racism that occurs in the south (“The Bitter River,” 15-19). The adoption of a more experimental method to spread awareness of the social injustice prominent in the south, Hughes’ poetics is broadcast. This poem serves to remind the higher economic class of African Americans that injustice is still forcefully inflicted upon the working class. Despite their attempts to better themselves, the self-hatred—The Bitter River—prevents them…

1). Wynn provides a good point to the argument that rap is music. Rap has an addicting flow. The way the rappers use phonemic awareness in songs is unmatched. If it has the characteristics of music, it must be music. Wynn also says, “Rap, like the bebop insurgency in jazz, represents a new synthesis of art and life” (Wynn 1). Artists rap to express their lives to their audiences. There are many genres of music. Everyone will not have the same opinion. The definition of music is solely up to the…

In “ Sonny 's Blues” and “ Everyday Use” both authors showcased a variety of themes throughout the stories. One of them being heritage and inheritance, each character in each story is the way they are because of where they came from.In “Sonny 's Blues” the author shows living situations for African Americans in an Urban lifestyle.In “Everyday Use” it is portraying heritage in a more honest way through ways like certain items from the family that has been passed on by generations.These two…

for 3 centuries. When it comes to different styles of jazz, people might tend to think which style they would enjoy the most between these categories of jazz. For example, ragtime, classical, hot jazz, Chicago style, Kansas City style, gypsy jazz, bebop, vocalese, mainstream, cool, hard bop, Bossa Nova and swing. Swing dancing can be taught or describe as. According to Wiki, “is a form of American music that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s. Swing uses a strong…

Wynton Marsalis, a modern jazz musician stated, “Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.” Though Marsalis was not alive during the Harlem Renaissance, his statement could not have matched its motif more fully. Jazz was a language that both white and black Americans could speak. It was an intersection that allowed insight into the reality of segregation. During…

won the bestselling album of the year, and is one of the most sought-after recordings as late as 1998. It was the first Jazz album to reach double-platinum, in addition to being a Masterpiece, Kind of Blue brought Jazz into the final years of the bebop era. Sketches of Spain arrangement was based on the second movement of “Concierto de Aranjuela” by Joaquin Rodrigo written in 1939. Sketches of Spain became an exemplary recording of fusion Jazz and…

The Work Itself Ella Fitzgerald achieved a multitude of accomplishments in her life. One of the many were her thirteen grammies. These grammies were: Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Soloist in 1958 and 1959; Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance 1958, 1959, 1960, and 1962; Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal in 1976 and 1979; Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female in 1980, 1981, 1983, and 1990; and Grammy Award for Best Historical Album in 1995. These awards she…