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History Of Rock n Roll Final Exam: Questions & Answers (Rated A+)
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History Of Rock n Roll Final Exam: Questions &Answers (Rated A+)
Rockism Right Ans - -loud music played by white guys with guitars
- some of the pioneers of and greatest rock musicians
four-beat feel, two-beat feel Right Ans - -These can be interchangeable and
can be classified as two different grouping of beats
-Two Beat feel
- marching band music, swing jazz &, hillbilly jug music
- traditional popular music before 1920s (1+2+1+2)
- 2/ 4 time
-2 2 beats in a 4 beat measure
- 4 beat feel
-walking pace
- jazz blues and swing in 4/4 time
Straight vs. swing beat Right Ans - -Striaght
- offbeats are equal(boom chick)
-Swing
- offbeats are unequal(first half lasts long)( DUM BA)
- shuffle rhythm (essential in jazz)
Backbeat Right Ans - -middle beat, opposite of down beat(first beat in
measure)
- by counterbalancing the downbeat, a strong backbeat gives an extra push to
the music and to the dancers, creating potent energy and drive.
-if we hear the downbeat as 'down' and the backbeat 'up,' a strong backbeat
rhythm feels like an up rhythm,
- body knows its there but a note doesn't have to necessarily be there
Syncopation Right Ans - - musical attack that occurs on a realativly weak
beat at the expense of a neighboring strong beat which receives either
no attack or much weaker attack
-Stress is on different beat, not as expected( played before or after one of
beats in between beats)
,-cross rhythmic patterning is interlocking motives(somewhat like
syncopation)
-black roots, and rhythmic vitality
blue notes Right Ans - -pitch space, not a pitch point
- note is around where a pitch should be
- notes that bend, dig in, wail, or move around in pitch
-Blues pentatonic : when a minor pentatonic scale uses blue notes
12-bar blues form Right Ans - Poetic form ( a-a-b structure repeated
versus)
• Melodic form- follows the poetic form
◦ Usually makes an a-a-b of musical phrases
◦ Based on blue pentatonicism( crying vs shouting)
• Harmonic rhythmic form
◦ For each verse or chorus
◦ 12 measure rhythmic cycle
• Equivalent to one poetic stanza
• Lasts 2 bars
◦ Basic progression is simple and diatonic
◦ I -I - IV - I - V-I
• Blues is simple, diatonic ,and centered
blues Right Ans - - Blues is a feeling, blues can be intense to release feelings
- release painful feelings
- about deeply felt experiences
- about survival
- celebration of life
- upbeat exciting or playful
- African American traditions
- strange mournful and wailing sounds due to slavery - strong distinct cultural
meaning Blues proper
- names emotional state of melancholy or sadness
- specific African American musical form took the name
- W.C. Handy popularized blues as a genre in 1910
, Same simple pattern of chords repeated over and over
- 12 bar blues form
-AAB
- 11 14 15
rhythm & blues Right Ans - -Old African American catagorey named "race"
changes to Rhythm and Blues- Shorted to R&B
-popular music of African-American origin that arose during the 1940s from
blues, with the addition of driving rhythms taken from jazz
-lyrics generally related to relationships, freedom, economics, aspirations, and
sex.
honky tonk Right Ans - -raunchy bars with dance floors that existed, on
edge of town
-arrived during hard and lonely times of world war 2
- type of music that reflects the rough environment, rather than churches, hills
and homes, and other nice things
jump bands Right Ans - - put it all together, simple, direct bluesy, rhythmic
and perfect for dancing( smaller bands than big bands)
- hotter and more energetic, dancing was KEY, made you want to move it
move it
- added element of boogie woogie
- bluesy style, strong back beat, simple swing instrumentation
-Piano and horn style bands for dancing
Chicago blues Right Ans - - grittier, hotter sound that in some ways
translates the older feel of southern country blues
- rural acoustic country blues(all blues singers moved north to get in on hit
style thus southern elements)
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