Midterm 1 Flashcards

1
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“Sheep Sheep Don’t You Know the Road”

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Bessie Jones (Georgia Sea Islands)

Call and Response/ Strophic/ Improve

Monophony/Homophony

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2
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“The Boatman’s Dance”

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Dan Emmett

Minstrel Show song with Irish Influence

Monophony/Homophony

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3
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“Nobody”

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Bert Williams 1913

Appeals to underdogs of all colors. A little bit of defiance.

Vaudeville

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4
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“Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair”

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Stephan Foster (1854)
AA’BA
Sentimental Irish style

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5
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“After the Ball”

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Charles Harris

Verse and Chorus (Verse AABA) Ballad

Sold millions of copies.

Triple Meter for Waltz

Tin Pan Alley

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6
Q

“Maple Leaf Rag”

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Scott Joplin (1898)

Ragtime

Sectional Form
AABBACCDD

Syncopation

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7
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“Castle House Rag”

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James Reese Europe

Clef Club

Rag Time

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8
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“Tiger Rag”

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Original Dixieland Band (1918)

1st Commercial Recording of Jazz

Polyphonic

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9
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“Dippermouth Blues”

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King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band (1923)
Featuring Louis Armstrong
12 bar blues

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10
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“Side by Side”

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Paul Whiteman “The King of Jazz”

More Unified Texture

Mainstreaming of Jazz

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11
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“Mama’s Got the Blues”

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Bessie Smith
12-bar blues harmonic form
Ballad/Strophic
AAB Text form
Sexual Promiscuity
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12
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“West End Blues”

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Earl Hines on Piano (1928)
Louis Armstrong ( and His Hot Five) on Trumpet
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13
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“St. Louis Blues”

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Bessie Smith (1929)
Composed by W.C Handy “Father of the Blues”
Louis Armstrong on Cornet
12 Bar blues w/ aab text

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14
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“Dark Was the Night”

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Blind Willie Johnson
Bluesy Melody
Slide guitar- relationship between voice and guitar

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15
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“Cross Road Blues”

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Robert Johnson (1936)
12 bar blues
aab text form
Relationship with guitar

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16
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“Soldier’s Joy”

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Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers (1929)
Hoedown Hillbilly music
Strophic

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17
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Can the Circle be Unbroken

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The Carter Family
Verse and Chorus
Monophony/Homophony

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18
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“Waiting For a Train”

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Jimmie Rodgers (1928)
Yodeling
New Orleans Jazz Interlude
Hawaiian Steel Guitar

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19
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“Wrappin’ it Up”

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Fletcher Henderson (1934)
Answering Riffs
Big Jazz Band

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20
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“New East St. Louis Toodle-oo”

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Duke Ellington (1937)
Plunger Mute on Trumpet
AABA form twice through

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21
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Pleasure Gardens

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European Entertainment that made way to US

Led to Variety shows and Concerts

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22
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Ethiopian delineator

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From T.D. Rice’s Jim Crow

Virginia Minstrels 1843

23
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Minstrel Show

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First US popular Culture
Fascination with Black Music
Black Face
Popular entertainment in north. Black entertainers became popular after the civil war.

Peak popularity 1840s-70s

ONE Semi circle with end-men and interlocutor
TWO variety format and stump speech
THREE Final Skit and origin of cakewalk

24
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Old Folks at Home

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Minstrel Show
AABA
Plantation references
Appeals to white people too

25
Q

Subsidized Symphonies

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Insecurity vs European Culture
Chicago Symphony 1889
For Upper Class

26
Q

W.C. Handy

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“Father of the Blues”

Musician and Publisher

27
Q

Bert Williams

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Portrayed in Ethnic Notions as trying to be high class.
Note of defiance, but still plays on stereotypes for success.
Vaudeville.

28
Q

Parlor Music

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Piano become affordable and in the home.

Public music education became popular. Music literacy.

29
Q

Stephan Foster

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1826-1864
Born in Pittsburgh, Irish family.
Formal music training.
Started out in minstrel circuit, wanted more “refined” songs.

30
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Tin Pan Alley

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1880s Broadway and 28th
Focusing on exclusively popular music.
Supplied music for Broadway, Radio, Talking Pictures, and Records.
Formulaic writing.

31
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Charles Harris

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1867-1930
Jew from Milwaukee
First to sell sheet music in millions

32
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Jews and Music

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1880s Immigration from Russia. 
Opportunity in entertainment industry.
Culture of adaptability.
Piano and social status.
First talking picture about Jewish Immigrants.
33
Q

Ragtime

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Ragging the tune.
Popular dance derived from cakewalk.
1893 Chicago Worlds Fair good exposure.

34
Q

Scott Joplin

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1868-1917
Born in Texas, moved to Missouri
Entertainer and Instructor
First Piano Rags

35
Q

James Reese Europe

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1880-1919
Founded Clef Club dance orchestra in 1910
Carnegie Hall concerts
Dance Band for Irene and Vernon Castle
Band for Af Am 359th Infantry Hellfighters

36
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Vaudeville

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Tony Pastor’s Opera House 1865 in NYC because Vaudeville 1881
Family oriented variety show.
Circuits of Theaters

37
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Sound Recording

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1877 Phonograph- Edison
1997 Gramophone- Berliner
1901 Talking Machine Co home gramophone
1920 Electronic Recording

38
Q

Music Marketing

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Sell Jukeboxes
Sell Gramophones
Records not originally seen as potentially profitable

39
Q

Jazz

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New Orleans

French Culture and African Culture (Caribbean, Mexican)

40
Q

Jazz Singer

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Black Face
Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson)
Mistrust of Popular/Commercial Culture
Generational Differences/Perserving Tradition
Immigrant Experience
41
Q

Paul Whiteman

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The King of Jazz

42
Q

Bessie Smith

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Empress of the Blues
Born in Tennessee
Flamboyant and achieved movie fame.
Racist Imagery persisted.

43
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Country Blues

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Scouting for field recording

Men, guitarists, solo performance, worship.

44
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Robert Johnson

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Mississippi but traveled alot
Inspiration for future blues guitarists
Slide guitar

45
Q

Radio

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1896 Guglielmo Marconi
1st station Pittsburgh KDKA
Gran Ole Opry in 1925 Tennessee
Border Blasters

46
Q

Carter Family

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Family and Traditional Values.
AP Doc, wife Sara and sis in law Maybelle
High lonesome sound
Bristol Virginia 1927

47
Q

Jimmie Rodgers

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Singing Brakeman

Country’s 1st big star born in Mississippi

48
Q

Fixin to Die Blues

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Bukka White
Strophic
AAB Text form

49
Q

New York/ Big Band

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Legacy of James Reese Europe

Composer has greater role

50
Q

Fletcher Henderson

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Dance orchestras played in Harlem for social dancing

51
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Duke Ellington

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Cotton Club 1927 WHITES ONLY

Floor shows and Jungle Music

52
Q

Count Basie

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New Jersey and played with Moten in Kansas

53
Q

One O’ Clock Jump

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Count Basie
12 bars blues with improv
Walking bass
Ride Cymbol