MUSIC 3500 CH.3&4

Tin Pan Alley

" Popular SongFrank Sinatra: Song for Young Lovers("concept album," 1954) featuring an updated version of Cole Porter's"I Get a Kick Out of Yo

blackbeat

: a rhythm that accents off-beats "2" and "4" in 4/4 time; an important feature of Rhythm and Blues and Rock & Roll.

rockabilly

: a type of early rock & roll that combined swingin' country with elements of R & B, as promoted by Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, ad Bill Haley

ballet music

Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring(1944)

jazz

Dave Brubeck Quartet: "Take Five" (1959)—"Cool" JazzJohn Coltrane: "Blue Train" (1957)—"Hard Bop"

experimental art music

Edgard Varèse: Ionization(1931)John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano(1948

opera

George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess(1935)

experimental art

John Cage: 4'33"(1952)—Chance musicEdgard Varèse: Poeme Electronique(1958)—Musique concrète

roots music

Lead Belly: "Midnight Special" 1934

early soul

Ray Charles: "I Got a Woman" (1955) Sam Cooke: "You Send Me" (195

symphonic music

Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings(1936)

urban folk

The Kingston Trio: "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" (1959, written by Pete Seeger)

folk songs

Woody Guthrie: "This Land Is Your Land" (1940)Pete Seeger: "If I Had a Hammer" (1949

labor protest

Woody Guthrie: "Union Maid" (1940

symphonic poem

a 1-movement work for orchestra that is "programmatic" (intends to evoke a specific image/emotion or tell a story through music without words

electric quitar

a 6-stringed fretted instrument that can be amplified through magnetic pickups; invented in 1950 by Les Paul, and mass-produced by Leo Fender.

zydeco

a blending of Cajun, blues, and R & B styles, created by the southern-Louisiana Creoles of French, Spanish and African descent

chance music

a concept promoted by John Cage in which some or all aspects of a composition are "indeterminant" (unpredictable—not planned in advance)

big band

a large jazz orchestra comprised of trumpets trombones saxophones clarinets and jazz rhythm section

hard pop

a more intense type of Bebop promoted by John Coltrane starting in the 1950s.

symphony

a multi-movement work for orchestra.

american bandstand

a nationally-syndicated teen dance show hosted by Dick Clark that started in the late 1950s.

doo wop

a pop-oriented type of smooth vocal music derived from R & B, sung in tight harmonies by small groups with background singers making sounds on nonsense syllables.

bluegrass

a popular style of hillbilly music that features banjo guitar mandolin string bass harmonica

cool jazz

a smooth, serene style of jazz that began on the West Coast in the 1950s

honky tonk

a style of 1950s Country & Western associated with barroom stories.

western swing

a style of Country & Western music that began around 1940 by adopting aspects of blues and jazz; first popularized by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.

swing

a style of jazz that began in the 1930s and became the dominant popular style in the 1940s, witha lively rhythm suitable for dancing, as represented by Duke Ellington

southern gospel

a style of religious music sung by small unaccompanied white male ensembles.

prepared piano

a technique invented by John Cage that createsamazing sounds from a traditional grand piano by carefully inserting a variety of common household objects between the strings

rhythm and blues

a type of up-tempo blues promoted in the 1950s by Howlin' Wolf, Big Joe Turner, and Muddy Waters

boogie woogie

an "eight-to-the-bar" pounding dance rhythm that was very popular in the 1930s and '40s.

concept album

an LP unified by a central idea or theme

jump blues

an early style of up-tempo Rhythm & Blues promoted by LOUIS JORDAN in the 1940s

rhythm and blues

big joe turner : "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" (1954) Muddy Waters: "I Got My Mojo Workin'" (1956)

early rock and roll

bill haley and his comets: "Rock Around the Clock" (1954)—Rockabilly Little Richard: "Tutti Frutti" (1955) Elvis Presley: "Hound Dog" (1956)—Rockabilly Chuck Berry: "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956)Jerry Lee Lewis: "Great Balls of Fire" (1957)—Rockabilly

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dependent Record Companies of the 1950s

broadway

eonard Bernstein: "Tonight" from West Side Story (1957)Rodgers and Hammerstein: "The Sound of Music" from The Sound of Music (1959

black gospel

mahalia jackson : "Move On Up a Little Higher" (1948)

soul

music- an expressive kind of secular pop singing that came out of the African-American Gospel tradition; early artists in this style during the 1950s were Ray Charles and Sam Cooke

electric blues

the musicalstyle promoted by singer-guitarist B. B. King

multi serialism

the process of controlling multiple aspects of a composition by a pre-ordered numeric series of pitches

musique concrete

the process of recording everyday sounds on to tape and then manipulating them into new sounds using electronic oscillators and filters.

tempo

the speed of the beat

FDR

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