Pre-Jazz Influences On African American Music
11st Class: 01/16/13
Pre-Jazz Influences
African Elements in American Music [The Jazz DNA]
-Syncopated rhythm – playing rhythms in between or against the stead beat
-Improvisation – art of spontaneous composition in music
-Call and Response – echo style (copy), question and answer style of musical conversation
-Individuality – human voice as instrumental model
Use of bends, slides and timbr (tone manipulation) to sound like no one else.
-Beat – steady pulse
-Rhythm – sound organized in time, lines up with pulse
Class: 01/23/13
Pre-Jazz Influences
19th Century Music Forms
-Social Dance – Congo Square (New Orleans) -Earliest documentation of African America Music, aka.
-Ring Shout (common name) Circle, …show more content…
Sidney Bechet -May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959 -Jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.
-he was one of the first important soloists in jazz and was perhaps the first notable jazz saxophonist of any sort
-Forceful delivery, well-constructed improvisations, and a distinctive wide vibrato characterized his playing.
King Oliver -December 19, 1885 – April 10, 1938 -was a bandleader and jazz cornet player. -Important on the 1920’s Chicago jazz scene, gave Louis Armstrong his “big break.”
Test: Part 1: listening, multiple choice by style – 15 question A: work-song/folk hymn (grandparents of jazz) B: Country Blues C: Classic Blues (Ma Rainey, Bettsy Smith) D: Ragtime (solo piano, marching band style violins flutes) E: Dixiland (King Olver, Jelly Roll Morton)
(LOOK AT CANVAS FOR EXAMPLES) AABB Style
Part 2: identify – short answer Identify innovators of the music Between Country Blues and Dixieland 10 or so innovators 2 facts for each innovators
Part 3: essay: bigger concepts, pop culture phenomenon -how jazz spread -process and birth of jazz: creol, blues and ragtime meet, segregation, black history.
55 point
Pre-Jazz Influences
African Elements in American Music [The Jazz DNA]
-Syncopated rhythm – playing rhythms in between or against the stead beat
-Improvisation – art of spontaneous composition in music
-Call and Response – echo style (copy), question and answer style of musical conversation
-Individuality – human voice as instrumental model
Use of bends, slides and timbr (tone manipulation) to sound like no one else.
-Beat – steady pulse
-Rhythm – sound organized in time, lines up with pulse
Class: 01/23/13
Pre-Jazz Influences
19th Century Music Forms
-Social Dance – Congo Square (New Orleans) -Earliest documentation of African America Music, aka.
-Ring Shout (common name) Circle, …show more content…
Sidney Bechet -May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959 -Jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.
-he was one of the first important soloists in jazz and was perhaps the first notable jazz saxophonist of any sort
-Forceful delivery, well-constructed improvisations, and a distinctive wide vibrato characterized his playing.
King Oliver -December 19, 1885 – April 10, 1938 -was a bandleader and jazz cornet player. -Important on the 1920’s Chicago jazz scene, gave Louis Armstrong his “big break.”
Test: Part 1: listening, multiple choice by style – 15 question A: work-song/folk hymn (grandparents of jazz) B: Country Blues C: Classic Blues (Ma Rainey, Bettsy Smith) D: Ragtime (solo piano, marching band style violins flutes) E: Dixiland (King Olver, Jelly Roll Morton)
(LOOK AT CANVAS FOR EXAMPLES) AABB Style
Part 2: identify – short answer Identify innovators of the music Between Country Blues and Dixieland 10 or so innovators 2 facts for each innovators
Part 3: essay: bigger concepts, pop culture phenomenon -how jazz spread -process and birth of jazz: creol, blues and ragtime meet, segregation, black history.
55 point