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Mus 3500
Exam 1 Chapter 1-3
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Music
Undergraduate 3
02/10/2015

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1917-18
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US enters WWI
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1919
Definition
Prohibition (18th Amendment)
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1920
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US women get the right to vote (19th Amendment)
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1929
Definition
Stock Market crash that initiated the Great Depression
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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The only US President elected to four consecutive terms
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Oversaw the US expansion to 48 states and the completion of the Panama Canal
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Flappers
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Radical young US women in the 1920s who smoked, and had short bobbed hair and relatively short skirts
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Technology of the 1920s
Definition
AM radio, electric microphone, 79-RPM records, movies with sound
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Technology of the 1930s
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Stereo (2-channel) recording and playback
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Technology of the 1940s
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FM radio, 33-RPM stereo LP records, 45-RPM singles, commercial TV, reel-to-reel tape recording
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Robert Johnson*
Definition
Delta Blues "Cross Road Blues"
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Bessie Smith
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Classic Blues. Radio stations started playing her, impacting popular styles with blues.
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The Soul Stirrers
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Early Gospel Music. Created by Alan Lomax.
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Jimmie Rodgers*
Definition
Early Country & Western "Blue Yodel No. 8-Muleskinner Blues." Transitioned folk roots to country. Used yodeling and thumb-and-brush strumming
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Gene Autry
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Early Country & Western. The Singing Cowboy. Over 90 movies that carried the genre to audiences. Christmas songs too.
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Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys*
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Early Country & Western "New San Antonio Rose." Western swing music that was more raucous.
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Bill Monroe
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Bluegrass. Joined Earl Scruggs
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Earl Scruggs
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Bluegrass. Popularized banjo playing technique of three-finger picking.
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Rodgers and Hammerstein*
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Broadway "Some Enchanted Evening"
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Irving Berlin
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Tin Pan Alley. Most successful figure with 1500 songs in 60 years. "God Bless America"
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Cole Porter
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Tin Pan Alley. Crafted the popular standard with "Night and Day."
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Bing Crosby
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Tin Pan Alley "White Christmas"
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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
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Dance Musicals. Did 9 song-and-dance films, bringing the genre to prominence.
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Woody Guthrie*
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Folk Music "This Land is Your Land." Poor man focused on working class people during the Dust Bowl era.
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Pete Seeger
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Folk Music. Urban folk singer because he was born wealthy but wrote songs without personal experience or culture. Social and economic activism.
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Walt Disney
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Animated Film. Most famous movie musicals of the era.
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Louis Armstrong*
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Hot Jazz "Hotter Than That." Encouraged being proud of heritage. Trumpeter-singer beginning in New Orleans, to Chicago and New York City nightclubs owned by gangters during the prohibition. Invented the scat singing style.
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Duke Ellington*
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Big-Band Jazz "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing." Used lush harmonies and instruments to create a sensual feeling.
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Benny Goodman
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Big-Band Jazz. Jewish clarinetist from New York.
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Louis Jordan and His Tymphani Five
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"Jump" Blues/Early R&B "Caldonia." Small horn groups. Influenced rock n roll.
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Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie
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Bebop "Koko." After WWII. Small group of people improvise at high speeds.
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Aaron Copland
Definition
Traditional Art Music. Classical sound based on legends and imagery from the American "Old West."
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Samuel Barber
Definition
Traditional Art Music. His Symphonic poem was premiered on national TV by NBC.
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Charles Ives
Definition
Experimental Art Music. Insurance salesperson. Stated several melodies/rhythms/keys at the same time. Quoted patriotic melodies.
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Henry Cowell
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Experimental Art Music. Expression and intensity by playing open strings of the piano with hands and fingernails.
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Edgard Varese
Definition
Experimental Art Music. "Ionization" depicted scientific ionization of molecules through musical expansion and variation of rhythmic cells.
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John Cage
Definition
Experimental Art Music. Concept of prepared piano: inserted household products into the strings.
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Scott Joplin*
Definition
Ragtime "The Entertainer"
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Kern and Hammerstein*
Definition
Broadway "Ol' Man River" from Showboat. Merged African-American blues and Anglo-American theater styles.
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Rhythm
Definition
Aspect of time in music
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Syncopation
Definition
Off beats
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Dynamics
Definition
Relative loudness or quietness
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Melody
Definition
Horizontal presentation of pitch
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Harmony
Definition
Vertical presentation of pitch
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Tone color
Definition
Sound created by the instruments
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Texture
Definition
Inter-relationship of musical ideas being heard at one time
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Monophonic Texture
Definition
Melody with no accompaniment
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Homophonic Texture
Definition
Melody with simple chord accomaniment
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Polyphonic
Definition
Complex interweaving of several melodies at once
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Binary Form
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AB form
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Ternary Form
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ABA form
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Stophic form
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A song that has several different versus of text
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Rhythm
Definition
Aspect of time in music
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Cross Road Blues
Definition
Robert Johnson
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Blue Yodel No. 8 - Muleskinner Blues
Definition
Jimmie Rodgers
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This Land is Your Land
Definition
Woody Guthrie
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The Entertainer
Definition
Scott Joplin
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Hotter Than That
Definition
Louis Armstrong
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It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
Definition
Duke Ellington
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Caldonia
Definition
Louis Jordan and His Tymphany Five
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New San Antonio Rose
Definition
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
Term
Ol' Man River
Definition
Kern and Hammerstein
Term
Some Enchanted Evening
Definition
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Term
Koko
Definition
Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
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The Unaswered Question
Definition
Charles Ives
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The Banshee
Definition
Henry Cowell
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Appalachian Spring
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Aaron Copland
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Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
Definition
John Cage
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