MUS 106- FACTS FROM THE OTTER REVIEW TRANSCRIPTION
WHAT SONG DID HE RECORD AND DID NOT PLAY TRUMPET?
"WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD"
WHAT IS THE LINE UP (MELODY INSTRUMENTS) OF A DIXIELAND BAND?
- the horns: the clarinet, cornet and trombone - plus the percussion section
WHO WAS THE ORIGINAL DIXIELAND BAND?
-1917 WHEN THEY RELEASED THE FIRST RECORD -ALL-WHITE BAND
WHO WERE THE CREOLES?
-Descendents of Europeans and African American -Grew up educated and did not consider themselves Black
WHO INVENTED THE FIRST PHONOGRAPH MACHINE?
-EDISON -FIRST RECORDING ON WAX DISC VIA A HORN
DESCRIBE THE MUSIC PLAYED BY THE MARCHING BANDS IN NEW ORLEANS AT FUNERALS
-Lively and celebration of life -from the belief in African Culture that death was a celebration of rebirth
WHAT ARE THE BLUES?
-did not come from New Orleans -came from Mississippi Delta -they sang about life--the struggles, the hearache -often accompanied by a guitar or banjo -12-bar blues was the basis of so much--rock n'roll -the style of the blues is very different from traditional western musice
WHAT IS SYNCOPATION
-is the beat the falls in between the strong beats and that is what creates the off the bounce -first heard in Ragtime
WHAT WAS THE SPEED AND COMPOSITION OF THE EARLY RECORDINGS?
78 rpm and made of shellac
WHAT SONG DID LOUIS ARMSTRONG RECORD WITH THE KING OLIVER BAND?
CHIMES BLUES
NAME OF PARK WHERE AFRICAN AMERICANS WERE ALLOWED TO SING AND DANCE?
CONGO SQUARE -where other cultures could see traditional African song and dance -important music because it was rhythmic NOT European
WHAT WAS THE FIRST JAZZ HORN INSTRUMENT PLAYED?
CORNET
WHO WAS THE FIRST WRITE DOWN THEIR COMPOSITIONS?
JELLY ROLE MORTON
WHICH BAND WENT FROM NEW ORLEANS TO CHICAGO?
KING OLIVER'S CREOLE JAZZ BAND PLAYS CORNET AND PIANO
WHO WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO GET FEATURED BILLING IN A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE?
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
BIRTHPLACE OF JAZZ?
NEW ORLEANS
WHAT INSTRUMENT IS THIS? WHO PLAYED IT?
Soprano Sax played by KING OLIVER
WHICH OF HIS BANDS WERE ONLY RECORDINGS AND NOT PERFORMED LIVE?
THE FIVE AND SEVEN BANDS
WHY WAS THE BASE DRUM NOT USED DURING A RECORDING? WHAT WAS A SUBSTITUTE
WAS TOO DEEP AND WOULD CAUSED THE NEEDLE TO JUMP -SNARE DRUM OR WOOD BLOCK WAS USED AS AS AS A SUBSTITUTE.
WHO IS THIS? WHERE WAS HE BORN?
lOUIS ARMSTRONG BORN IN NEW ORLEANS
WHO IS SCOTT JOPLIN? WHAT DID HE PLAY?
the King of Ragtime piano-based music often play on "player painos" came out of classical western music (not African beat) Maple Leaf Rag is his biggest hit