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Traditional African Music

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*Yodelling
*Use of different sounds (animal sound, nature sounds)
*call & response

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Purpose of Traditional African Music

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*To offer to their Gods
*To communicate
*To mark occasions e.g. (birth, death)
*To protest
*To educate

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Yodel king of the Philippines and his song

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Fred Panopio
-Pitong Gatang

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Commonly used by Africans (Falseto)

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Yodelling

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Cumbia

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-Columbia and Panama
-A dance of courtship
-Upbeat Music
-More on drums/ percussion

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Pasadoble/ Paso Doble

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-Spain
-Bullfighting
-girl is symbolized as the red cloth used in bullfighting
- 2 step dance

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Cha Cha Cha

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-Cuba
-Enrique Jorrin (Cuban Violinist)

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Samba

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-Brazil
-2/4 time signature

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Tango

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-Lower class district of Buenos Aires, Argentina
-Always fierce to uplift their elegance
-Sudden movements of neck

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Has no standard definition. It can still be described as a musical style that involves lively sycorporated rhythm and improvision. It was developed by the African-Americans in the late 19th and early 20th century the elements of the music cultures of west African, Europe, and America.

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Jazz

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The Influences of “THREE CULTURES”:

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*West African influences
*American Influences
*European Influences

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West African influences

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•Rhythmic sounds of percussions
•Improvision
•Complicated rhythmic patterns
•Call & response technique

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American Influences

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*work songs
*cakewalk dance
*gospel hymns
*spirituals
*marching band instruments

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European Influences

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*hymns
*folk tunes
*piano pieces
*popular songs

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Distinct Features of Jazz

•Jazz can either be performed by a small group (3-8) musicians or by a big band. Big band also called jazz band, is composed of three groups:

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*Woodwind
*Brass
*Rhythm section (backbone of the Jazz ensemble)

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flute, soprano saxophone, 1-3 alto saxophones , and/or one or two baritone saxophones

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Woodwind

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Three to five trombones and/or three to five instruments

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Brass

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Guitar or banjo, piano, plucked double bass, drums, congas, and/or tambourine

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Rhythm Section

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-The core of Jazz music

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Improvisation

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In rhythm, __ is the displacement of accented beats by accenting weak beats, having rests on strong beats or trying notes over from a weak or a strong beat

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Syncopation

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Other distinctive features of Jazz music are syncopation and the rhythm swing.

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Rhythm

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In creating Jazz, melodies, composers use two kinds of scale the BLUE SCALE and the BEBOP SCALE

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melody

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Is not a typical scale(s) because it does not have a second or sixth degree. Instead, it has a flatted third, fifth, and seventh.

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Blue scale

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Is sometimes referred to as the BEBOP DOMINANT SCALE, it is a scale of nine notes.

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Bebop scale

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During the early twentieth century, the cakewalk (strutting dance of the blacks of the south) minstrel songs, and vaudeville songs and dances have syncopated melodies with highly pulsating accompaniment

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Popular songs

26
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Roots of Jazz

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*blues
*ragtime
*bands

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Some of the best known Jazz blue singers are:

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*Billy Eckstinn
*Billie Holiday
*Bessie Smith
*Ella Fitzgerald
*Joe Turns
*Joe Williams
*Jimmy Rushing
*Ma Rainey
*Sarah Vaughan

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Although itself is not Jazz, it contains features that are common in Jazz music

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Blues

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Is a popular music for solo piano. This develop in the St. Louis and kansas City areas. This peaked during 1890’s and 1900’s. In performing this music style, the left hand follows a strict rhythm at a moderate march tempos while the right hand plays a syncopated melody. The standard form is AABBACDD, “Maple Leaf Rag” by Scott Joplin is a classic example of this musical style

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Ragtime

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The brass bands and the wind bands of the nineteenth century provided opportunity for musicians to be trained.

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Bands

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The ff. are significant styles that led to the development of Jazz today.

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*Dixieland Jazz
*Swing
*Bebop
*Cool Jazz
*Free Jazz
*Fusion

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Origins of pop music

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*folk songs
*broadside ballads
*Eighteenth century English songs
*Scottish and Irish songs

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This popular Jazz style, also called NEW ORLEANS style or HOT JAZZ, is an instrumental music. A dixie land band consist of five to eight (5-8) performers who play the trombone, clarinet, drums, string bass, trumpet, piano, guitar, and banjo.

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Dixieland Jazz

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Is one of the musician who migrated from New Orleans to Chicago in the 1920s. He developed the hot Jazz style and the scat singing.

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Louis Armstrong

35
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Is an improvised singing style characterized by the singing nontexted vocalizations or nonsense syllables like doo-bidoo or do-nut-di-nut

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Scat singing

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This New Jazz style was developed in the 1920s. This even reached it’s peak during the “swing era” (1935- 1946). Swing is performed by bands with 15 musicians

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Swing

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Is a type of Jazz that is for dancing, entertainment, and early listening only

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Sweet swing

38
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Is also known as big band Jazz. This kind of Jazz is created by more skilful Jazz composer, arrangers and performers. Sometimes, this lang of jazz is called CONCERT JAZZ.

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Hot Swing

39
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Is a style created by wherein Benjamin “Benny” Goodman.

He is hailed as the “King of Swing”

His ingenuity in music can be seen in his hot jaz, gentle swing and combo jazz

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Benny Goodman’s Jazz

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Also called rebop or simply bop, bebop is an important Jazz style in the 1940s.

This is aggressive and fast, and it’s not intended for dancing but for listening

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Bebop

41
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Is an important figure in the bebop style. He is also one of the greatest improvises in Jazz

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Charlie “bird” Parker (1920-1955)

42
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Just like bebop, __ emerged in the 1940s in reaction to the swing bland style. Is related to bebop but without the aggressive interpretation.

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Cool Jazz

43
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Some of the important musicians of cool Jazz are

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*Stanley “Stan” Getz
*Lester Young
*Leonard “Lennie” Tristano
*Gerald “Gerry” Muligan

44
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Is also called auant-garde jazz. In this style, the musician has complete freedom to improve. Shout, cry, outburst, and other non-traditional sounds maybe produced by the performance.

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Free Jazz

45
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-Also called Jazz Rock
-Is the merging of rock sounds and rhythm with Jazz improvisation.
-Traditional Acoustic instruments are combined with electric pianos, guitars and basses.

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Fusion

46
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Some of important figures in jazz rocks are

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*Miles Davis
*Larry Coryell
*Chick Corea
*Pat Metheny

47
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The early popular music came from folk songs. These are narrative songs passed on from one generation to another through oral tradition

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Folk songs

48
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These are topical narrative songs printed on a sheet that uses only one side of paper. These songs have the ff features

*simple and appealing to the audience
*melody as the main feature
*with meaningful lyrics
*can be performed by an amateur
*made to earn a profit

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Broadside Ballads

49
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These songs created by composers from England are similar to the broadside ballads. However, it’s topics and lyrics are intended more on entertainment rather than politics. These are publishes in sheet music form, that can be printed on both sides. Those are typically performed in bug, park-like plays where people enjoy eating, talking, and listening to music

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18th century English songs

50
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These are songs with pentatonic melodies and romantic lyrics during the 19th century

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Scottish and Irish songs

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