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Styles and Genres 1 (3) Flashcards

1
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Swing - Instrumentation

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  • Vocals - in some songs
  • Top line instruments - trumpets, cornets, trombones, saxophones, clarinets
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2
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Swing - Influences

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  • Big Band
  • New Orleans Jazz
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3
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Swing - Key Innovator

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Louis Armstrong

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4
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Swing - Musical features

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  • Big Band
  • Saxophone
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5
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Swing - Technological features

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  • Live recording
  • Recording direct to disk
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Rap - Key Innovators

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Drake

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Rap - Musical Features

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  • Spoken rhyming lyrics
  • Heavy bassline
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Rap - technological features

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  • Use of Samplers
  • Scratching effects
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Synth Pop - Instrumentation

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  • Synthesiser
  • Vocals
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10
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Synth Pop - Influences

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  • Disco
  • New wave
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Synth Pop - Key Innovators

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Duran Duran

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Synth Pop - Musical Features

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  • Riffs/Ostinato
  • Repetition
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13
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Synth Pop - Technological features

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  • Synthesiser
  • Sequencer
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14
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Ragtime - Instrumentation

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  • Piano
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15
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Ragtime - Key Innovators

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  • Jelly Roll Morton
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Ragtime - Musical Features

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  • Right hand syncopation
  • Question and answer
17
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Ragtime - Technological Features

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  • Played/recorded on the player piano
18
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Rock - Instrumentation

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  • Electric guitar
  • Vocals
19
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Rock - Key Innovators

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The rolling stones

20
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Rock - Musical Features

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  • Drumkit
  • Electric Guitar
21
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Rock - Technological Features

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  • Distortion
  • Flanger or phaser on bass guitar
22
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Rock ‘n’ Roll - Instrumentation

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  • Electric Guitar
  • Double bass/bass guitar
23
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Rock ‘n’ Roll - Key Innovators

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Elvis Pressley

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Rock ‘n’ Roll - Influences

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  • R ‘n’ B
  • Blues
25
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Rock ‘n’ Roll - Musical Features

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  • Call and response
  • Walking bass
26
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Rock ‘n’ Roll - Technological Features

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  • Vocals overdubbed to minimize spillage
  • Live recording direct to tape
27
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20th/21st Century Classical Music - Instrumentation

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  • Voice
  • Strings
28
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20th/21st Century Classical Music - Key Innovator

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Benjamin Britten

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20th/21st Century Classical Music - Influences

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Baroque Music - (1600-1750)
Classical (1750-1810)

30
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20th/21st Century Classical Music - Musical Features

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  • Orchestra
  • Orchestral Music
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20th/21st Century Classical Music - Technological Features

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  • Overheard condenser microphone in key points of orchestra
  • Distance/room stereo microphone
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