MUS M 402 1st Edition Lecture 30 Outline of Last Lecture I II Schoenberg s Atonal Music Serialism Outline of Current Lecture I II Jazz The Blues Current Lecture I II Jazz a Begins to be recorded around the 1920s b Influenced in part by i Music of the Western Art Tradition ii Aspects of African American Music 1 Orality 2 Performer centered 3 Call and response textures 4 Short figures repeated and varied with embellishments 5 Syncopation and swing 6 Bent pitches a Blue notes Sliding between major and minor thirds or other characteristically jazzy pitches harmonies 7 Friction between multiple rhythmic layers The Blues a Uses AABA song form b Head main melody for the tune i This is all that will be seen on a piece of music c Lots of improvisation after the head has been completed i Notation on sheet music is completely insufficient to communicate how complexities can only be understood by actually hearing the music Score analysis essentially does nothing to communicate the music to the audience d Rocking accompaniment and a swung bass line that provides a rhythmic anchor for the song e Vocal line provides rhythmic friction between sung line and walking bass line
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