Review Questions 1. What are the basic elements of music? 2. What is pitch? 3. What is syncopation? What types of music use syncopation? 4. What are three examples of forms of music? Describe each form. 5. What is form in music? Critical Thinking Questions 1. Music has sometimes been referred to as a �universal language.� Why has this description been applied to music? Do you agree or disagree with this assessment? Why? 2. Why is musical notation important? What benefits do
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08.10 Review and Critical Thinking questions Review Questions 1. Syncopation is placing emphasis or accents on beats that are unexpected‚ or not having emphasis or accents on beats that are expected too. Syncopated rhythms add variety to music. 2. Ragtime is a musical genre‚ it combined march music with African rhymths. The instruments used in the bands using ragtime would become the instruments used to create jazz which is how the two were related. 3. Buddy Bolden helped create Classic Jazz
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Finally Forming the African American Identity Prior to the 1920s‚ African Americans had no method of self-expression‚ and as a result‚ American culture largely consisted of traditional European influences. The end of World War I provided a unique opportunity for the expression of African American culture that had not been possible before. African American culture of the 1920’s was vastly different from mainstream American culture. African Americans’ adaptations of classical forms of music and literature
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DUO 1804 is a partnership of two modern composers of Haitian descent. In the year 1804‚ Haiti gained their independence from France and now DBR and Val-Inc are using their Haitian background to express feelings of freedom‚ revolution‚ and human spirituality. When I walked into the concert I was very skeptical and biased that I would dislike it. They asked the audience to take a risk and explore the boundaries of classical music together. My boundaries have been broken and now I see a whole new side
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elements of music are pitch‚ rhythm‚ dynamics‚ melody‚ and form. 2. Pitch is the frequency of a sound; it relates to the highness or lowness of a tone that we hear. 3. Syncopation involves placing emphasis on normally un-emphasized beats or using a rest on a normally emphasized beat. The types of music that uses syncopation are ska‚ reggae‚ rap‚ jazz‚ and some forms of metal. 4. The three examples in forms of music are concerto‚ sonata‚ and symphony. A concerto is a musical piece in which
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Since the early 1900’s‚ swing dancing has livened up the dance floors across the United States. Many versions of swing dancing are still in existence today. Of those dances (the Lindy Hop‚ Jitterbug‚ East Coast Swing‚ West Coast Swing‚ and the Charleston)‚ the two most common amongst the social dancers are the East Coast Swing and West Coast Swing. Though they derived from the same dance‚ the Lindy Hop‚ many things set them apart from one another. The style‚ frame‚ and beat of the West Coast Swing
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Finally Forming the African American Identity Prior to the 1920s‚ African Americans had no method of self-expression‚ and as a result‚ American culture largely consisted of traditional European influences. The end of World War I provided a unique opportunity for the expression of African American culture that had not been possible before. African American culture of the 1920’s was vastly different from mainstream American culture. African Americans’ adaptations of classical forms of music and literature
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Chapter 1 Listening to Jazz McGraw-Hill/Irwin © 2013 McGraw-Hill Companies. All Rights Reserved. Overview Jazz has been described as “America’s Classical Music” - the first musical style to have a specific American Identity. 1-2 Jazz developed out of many diverse musical and cultural influences at the beginning of the 20th century. 19th century photo of a group of African American Minstrels 1-3 The absence of recordings or written examples of the earliest jazz results in subjective historical
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Jazz performances involve a collaborative effort between the listener and the artist as the artist creates a freshness fueled by jazz’s defining components‚ improvisation‚ syncopation‚ and deliberate distortions of pitch and timbre. Through the examples mentioned above Fusion pieces such as Herbie Hancock’s “Chameleon” and “Actual Proof” as well as Miles Davis’s “Bitches Brew‚ and Chick Cores “La Feata‚” one can conclude that
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The beat of this song was strong and dominate‚ while the tempo was played very quickly giving the song’s tone color a bright‚ high energy‚ dancing feel to it and the overall volume was loud. The horns also added to the rhythm by adding a lot of syncopation throughout the piece as they played extra loud accent notes with high pitches. The theme of the song had variations between the big band and the soloists that created a call and response between the two as well. Since it was a big band playing
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