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Musicology - American Music
Review for the Musicology Exam
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Undergraduate 1
02/24/2013

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What Year was 'the defense of Ft. McHenry' written. By Whom?
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Francis Scott Key, 1814
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'To Anacreon in Heaven'
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Written in 1775, John Stafford Smith
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What year was the SSB made the National anthem?
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1931
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What year was the Ainsworth Psalter printed?
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1612
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the Bay Psalm Book, the first book printed in the new world, was printed when?
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1640
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Describe the process of 'Lining Out' (the Old Way)
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Lining out is a call and response between leaders and congregation
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song: " Old Hundred"
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Written in 1551 by Loys Bourgeouis
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Why did the colonial church settle America? Two primary reasons
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Money and Religious Independence
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Cotton Mather
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Puritan Leader, used singing as social control, didn't believe in Old Way (Lining out)
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Early American Psalmody
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known as sacred harp today, first american music.
William Billings and Daniel Read composers
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song: "Sherburne"
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1794 by Daniel Read (day job as Comb Manufacturer)
notice loud, almost yelling aesthetic
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Fuging Tunes
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Early American Psalmody form
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Shape Notes
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teaching system developed 1801, pedagogical solfege system
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William Billings
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1770, published first tunebook attributed solely to New World composer; father of American Choral Music
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song: "Chester"
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1770, William Billings, Anthem of the American Revolution
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Idea of the Maverick
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innovation, independence, breaking with past influences
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Lowell Mason
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Reformer, founder of Public school music in U.S., wrote Joy to the World
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8 aspects of musical careers
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Composing
Performing
Teaching
Writing/ Research
Manufacturing
Distributing
Aministration/ Management
Repair/ Maitenance
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Idea of Portfolio Career
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balance many different musical aspects in order to make a living
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Steps to Copyrighting a Work
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record it in permanent medium
(poor man's copyright: Mail paper copy to self and don't open)
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what is Identity?
Definition
concept of self and community
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parameters of identity?
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Ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, age, education, region, beauty, ability
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What was the start of Blackface/Ethiopian Minstrelsy?
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began late 1820's/30's
White imitating blacks, racist and expletive
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Minstrel Ensemble
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begins with Virgina Minstrels, founded by Dan Emmet in 1843
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song "De Boatman Dance"
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Minstrelsy tune, instrumentation: bones, fiddle, tenor banjo, tambourine, voice, Dan Emmet (1843)
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Minstrelsy Characters
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Zip Coon (Northern dandy, finely dressed)
Wench (men crossdressed as women)
Jim Crow (Southern bumpkin, created 1830)
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Later Minstrel Music
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Stephen Foster brought into the parlor, didn't want to associate with Minstrelsy
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song "Old Folks At Home"
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Stephen Foster, 1851, 'Parlor minstrel tunes'
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Moravian Church
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Early force of Instrumental music in U.S., brought Western Euro musical styles
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Dudley Buck
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Concert Variations on SSB, written for Organ
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Francis Hopkinson
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first native born American composer
Singed Declaration of Independence
claimed: designed US Flag, written first US opera
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Benjamin Franklin
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Inventor, made the Glass Harmonica - 1761
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Alexander Reinagle
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Philadelphia Sonatas
Pianist, composer, teacher,
works not published until 1978
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David Moritz Michael (1751-1827)
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Moravian Composer (german influence)
wind music
Harmoniemusk (foundation of later wind band music
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Anthony Philip Heinrich (1781-1861)
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German Born
"Beethoven of America"
lived in a log cabin, isolationist
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Charles Homann (1803-62)
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First American-born Symphonist
Fund's Academy of Music (1820)
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Jenny Lind (1820-87)
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US Tours 1850-53
'Swedish Nightengale'
Sponsored by P.T. Barnum, then managed self
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P.T. Barnum
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sponsored Lind US tour
Mass Marketing; Lind Fever'
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Louis Gottschalk (1829-69)
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Jewish/Creole Composer
Similar to Liszt compositionally
worked mostly outisde of US
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'Le Banjo"
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1855, Louis Gottschalk
character piece for the piano imitating the sounds of the banjo
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Opera in the US
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very popular, began 1825
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Germania Musical Society
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1848-54
Revolution refugees perform European masterworks
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Issue with American Composers - no supportq
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Orchestras didn't have financial stability to play new music
composition not deeply rooted in American Psyche
German catalogs were in wide demand, dominated repertoire
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2nd New England School
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'Boston Six'
Members believed in friendships, not a formal school
first musicologists seeking respect
mostly building to higher music education
first successful composers
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John Knowles Paine (1839-1906)
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one of first music Profs at Harvard
Taught at BU
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Arthur Foote (1853-1937)
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Studied at NEC/ Harvard with Knowles
Opened teaching school on Beacon Hill
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George W. Chadwick (1854-1931)
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Director at NEC
founded Music Teachers National Association
founding member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
wanted to write Germanic Music, criticized for not being American enough
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song "Jubilee"
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from George Chadwick's Symphonic Sketches (1900)
note rich orchestration
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Amy Beach (1867-1944)
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self-taught child prodigy, calvinist background
first American Female composer
symphony premiered by BSO
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song: "Gaelic" Symphony
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Amy Beach, 1894
similar style to New World Symphone
quotes Irish folk tunes
slower movement
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Edward Macdowell (1860-1908)
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Columbia University's first prof of music
wrote piano concertos
'Rival' of Ices
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song: "To A Wild Rose"
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MacDowell
slow piano
from woodland sketches
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song: "Presto Giocoso from piano concerto"
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Macdowell, 1890
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Criticisms of 2nd NE School
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not 'American' (most studied in germany)
not mavericks
too elitist
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Antonín Dvorák in America
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Director of Nat'l conservatory in NYC
Drew upon 'American Musical materials' (Negro/ American Indian music)
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Harry T. Burleigh
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Dvorak's Copyist, "Go Down Moses" recorded 1919
first black students admitted to NY conservatory
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song: "New World" Symphony
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Dvorak, most frequently performed American piece
inspired by Native Americans
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Reactions to Dvorak
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Knowles Paine - racist, folk melodies don't advance music
Amy Beach - Negro music needs to be credited to them; their suffering
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Institutions in America
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institutions part of the creative process of music
Handel/Hadyn Society (1815-Present): "Historically informed performance"
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Organization of Orchestras
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Musicians, staff, board of directors (least to most power)
little contact between top & bottom
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Chicago Symphony as a corporate model
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musicians, staff, trustees, governing members, corporate sponsors, foundations
Board makes decisions, caters to listeners
Amateurism devalued
Community donations valued
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EL SISTEMA
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1975-present
publically financed youth orchestra Venezuala
Jose Antonio Abreu, founder
300,000+ musicians
teaches human values and life skills to kids from poor communities
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Fisk Jubilee Singers (1871)
Definition
choir from Nashville HS
toured post-civil war to raise money
had little money because most are former slaves
huge popularity
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Jeannette Thurber
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Patron of the arts - established Nat'l conservatory of Musioc 1885 (modelling French music ed system [gov't funded conservatory training])
provided aid to students regardless of race
Invited Dvorak to NY Conservatory
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Ragtime
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first African-American Genre to hit US mainstream
Mixture of African and European traditions
'Ragged Time' (syncopation
composed, not improvised
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Cakewalk
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Afro-American slave dance parodying white owners
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song "Stars and Stripes Forever"
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Sousa, 1896, March form with strains and trio
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Important Ragtime composers
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James Scott
Scott Joplin
Joseph Lamb
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song: "Maple Leaf Rag"
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1897, Scott Joplin
first 1 million sold song
marketed as 'classic ragtime'
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Ragtime Ensembles
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winds, brass, drums, strings
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Ragtime revival
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1940s became popular with Dixieland Jazz
1960s aficionados
1972 The Sting (movie)
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Tin Pan Alley
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Colleciton of music players along 28th between 5th and broadway
1885-90, 20's-50's
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Publishing Revolution
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Olicer Ditson & Co, large catalog, not many popular songs, bankrupt
M. Witmark & songs pop songs and survived
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song: "After the Ball"
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Charles K. Harris 1982
hit of the decade, sold 5 million copies
verse-chorus structure
32-bar song form
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32 bar song form
Definition
verse/chorus
lyrics in verses told story
chorus is a hook (song's title)
influence jazz structure
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Tin Pan Alley Hits
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Formulaic to a point
follow conventions,
memorable chorus
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Irving Berlin
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Born israel, only played in F#, huge TPA success, also broadway and hollywood composer
perfectionist
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song: "Alexander's Ragtime Band"
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1911, Berlin, his first big hit both in US and abroad
sold 2 million copies in a year
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Johann Pestalozzi
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Swiss, education philosphy impacted lowerll mason
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Charles Ives
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1874-1954,
substance vs. manner; avoidance of 'beauty'
meaning and intent most important
manly music
heavy quotation
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Manuel Garcia
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Garcia Family, introduced opera to America 1825, Barber of Seville and Don Giovonni
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Concord Sonata
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1840-60
Self published/distributed
written about concord, Mass; movements centered around American Transcendentalist Authors
Emerson, Hawthorne, Alcotts, Thoreau
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song: "Daniel"
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ring shout
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Ring shout
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cyclical slave chant, call and response to spite the plantation owner, no audience, in ring formation
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John Philip Sousa (1854-1832)
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Born on Capitol Hill, Director of U.S. Marine Band at 26
innovator
135 independent works + others, played arrangements differently
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Alton Adams
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first African-American bandmaster of the U.S. Navy, from St. Thomas, inspired by Sousa, self-taught
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song: "The Governor's own"
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Alton Adams 1921, wrote piece to mimic the step of the USVI's first naval administrator
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Jazz Music
Definition
It's Jazz. important for civil rights music, stems from blend of african and euro traditions
syncopation
improvisation
percussion
rhythm
blue notes
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New Orleans Jazz
Definition
earliest surviving style of jazz
front line - cornet, clarinet, tombrone
Rhythm section - tuba,. bajo, piano, drums
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song: Dippermouth Blues
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1923, collective improvisation
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Hot Jazz 1920s
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Illicit, part of post WWI disillusionment (isolation, hedonism)
flappers, early sexual revolution
jazz was the soundtrack
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Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
Definition
Born and raised New Orleans
definite jazz
'inventor' of scat singing
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song: "West End Blues"
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1928, pianist Earl Hines
fanfare, melody, elaboration, departure
call and response w/ scat
held note/ end with flourish
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Duke Ellington (1899-1974)
Definition
pianist, leader, composer
c. 2000 compositions
wrote for bandmembers more than instruments
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song: "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue"
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song on two sides of a record, two parts of the same, longer song
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Jazz & Race
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Minstrel aspects still required of black performers in U.S. Mainstream (Armstong in jungle costume)
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Billie Holiday
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Born Elenora Fagan 1915,
considered by many to be the foremost jazz singer ever
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song: "Swing, Brother Swing"
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1937 Count Basie Orchestra,
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song: "Strange fruit"
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cafe society, interracial NYC club, 1939
anti-Lynching song written by Abel Meeropol (Jewish school teacher) under name Lewis Allen Inspired by 1930 photograph of killing of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith
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