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Rock History 1-3
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Undergraduate 1
06/29/2010

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Improvisation
Definition
not written down,Happens when a musician decides what to play while they are playing it
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Ragtime
Definition
an african american style named for its ragged or syncopated rhythms
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Scott Joplin
Definition
One of the best known ragtime composers. (Ex."maple leaf rag")
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Tin Pan Alley
Definition
Where music players used to live in new york between 5th St. and Broadway
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Irving Berlin
Definition
One of the most important jewish american songwritters of the tin pan alley era (ex. "Alexanders Rag time band" and "god bless america")
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chord
Definition
three or more notes played together
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syncopated rhythms
Definition
"ragged" melodys played by the pianist right hand or the main melody played by the banjo of the band
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front line
Definition
principle solo instruments played in early hot bands (Ex.trupmet,clarient,trombone)
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rhythm section
Definition
is a general term for the instruments in any band that keep beat and play the chords (ex. banjo,guitar,piano)
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solo breaks
Definition
when individual intrumentalist featured alone
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Swing
Definition
bands played jazz-related music, idividuals were allowed to improvise solos in a jazz style, butbands were bigger and improvation time was limited
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arrangements
Definition
carefully planned music bands played for swing dance rhythms
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walking bass
Definition
swing bassits created a much smoother effect by "walking" from note to note by playing a new note on every beat and occasionally between the beats to create a rhythmic flow
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Comping
Definition
the left hand(or both hands) could play chords on or between beats and not play bass notes at all
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Gleen Miller
Definition
trombonist of one of the most popular swing bands (Gleen Miller Band)( in movies "sun valley serenade" and "orchestra wives")
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Crooning
Definition
style of singing, developed in a way of using a microphone, men softened their natural singing voice into a smooth gentle one
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overdubbing
Definition
to enhance music already recorded, abtainable only not live(ex. Elvis' "heartbreak hotel")
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Alan Freed
Definition
one to help bring both blues and rock music to the white teens through radio
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backbeat
Definition
accents on the second and fourth of each four-beat bar
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griots
Definition
oral poets who tell the history of their leaders
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call and response
Definition
leader sings a phrase and the group sings a copy version
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field holler
Definition
worker who sings about the task required of them
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work songs
Definition
singing during slave work
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signifying
Definition
having double meaning to a text
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country blues
Definition
earliest blues styles of the south,blues was an integral part of the peoples lives
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delta
Definition
written from the mississippi delta, lyrics expressed lives the singers really lived
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bottlenecks
Definition
tubes of glass used to make a specific sound with the guitar strings
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blue notes
Definition
bending the pitches of notes
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pentatonic scales
Definition
five-tone note that influenced blues notes
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bebop
Definition
when the lowered fifth sclae degree becomes a blues note
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string bending
Definition
pushing or pulling a string to loosen or tighten a string to lower or raise the pitch in a blues note
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12 bar blues
Definition
12 bar song in the structure of: AAB
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beat subdivisions
Definition
slow and uneven beats created to relax a feeling
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Robert Johnson
Definition
country blues singer/guitarist("cross road blues")
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polyrhythm
Definition
more than 1 rhythm
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Classic blues
Definition
women singing in 12 bar form
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Bessie smith
Definition
classic blues singer ("Lost your head blues")
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Urban Blues
Definition
played by groups of intruments including a rhythm section and solo instruments
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BB king
Definition
blues writter influencing on my many rock guitarist(3 O'clock blues)
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Chicago Blues
Definition
blues styles combined with swing jazz influences developed in Chicago
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Phil and Leonard Chess
Definition
owned and ran Chess Recording Studios in Chicago/provided country blues artist with a more urban style
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Muddy Waters'
Definition
stage name for McKinely Morganfield ("Rollin Stone")
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Blues harp
Definition
Harmonica
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break
Definition
when instruments stopped playing during a vocal line and continued on the second,third and fourth
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rhythm and blues
Definition
ryhthmatic dance music in which every 2nd and 4th beat was accented in each bar
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Louis Jordan
Definition
played in various large jazz bands and made his own band "Louis Jordan and His Tympnay Five"/influenced jump blues
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Bo Diddley
Definition
Sang "say man", "bo Diddley", and "im a man"
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Boogie Woogie
Definition
spirited and rhythmic piano style created by african americans in the south
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riffs
Definition
short beats of melodies
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Spiritual
Definition
religious folk songs
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melisma
Definition
notes both above and below the melody note, dramatically delaying the note
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Soul Stirrers
Definition
Group that influenced other gospel groups
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falsettos
Definition
higher than standards tenor range and generally somewhat breathy in tone quality
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Sam Cook
Definition
a rock singer and writer popular in the late 50's
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Edwin Hawkins Singers
Definition
recorded gospel songs "oh happy day"
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orioles
Definition
group from baltimore "crying of the chapel"
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cover
Definition
rerecording
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Chords
Definition
an afraican american vocal group "sh-boom"
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crew cuts
Definition
covered Chords song "sh-boom"
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doo-wop progression
Definition
same basic progression at about the same progression at about the same rhythmic rate, reason why so many doowop songs sounded simular
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drifters
Definition
memebers known to drift from group to group, never stayed in one group through entire career "honey love"
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western swing
Definition
music played by fiddle and guitar barn dance bands
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triadic
Definition
simple 3 chord notes with no added 7ths
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Jimmy Rodgers
Definition
"father of country music", distinctive vocal style described as "blue yodeling"
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Hank Willaims Sr.
Definition
"ill never get out of this world alive"
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Johnny Cash
Definition
"cry,cry,cry"
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