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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