AMS Quiz 1

• Kiss Me Again is written by Victor Herbert and Lyrics were by Henry Blossom
• Major General Song is written by Arthur Sullivan and WS Gilbert
• Parlor music showcased middle-class values was usually played in the parlor with voice and piano
• March form has the introduction, first strain, second strain, trio (in a different key), dog fight, trio, break strain, trio.
• syncretism: the combination of different forms of belief or practices. Ex: enslaved people combined christianity with a variety of african practices
• Ring shout was participatory, everyone was involved in dancing and singing.
• Oral tradition was passed down by singing together
• Musical elements of Ring shout: call and response, stick player, body percussion, cross rhythms, and lyrics which referenced god or religion and were improvised.
• Sacred: religious. secular: work songs and entertainment songs.
• Cross rhythms: simultaneous use of contrasting rhythmic patterns. Parts interlock to create a complex whole.
• Call and response: community activity which shows support to leader. Leader says first line, rest of community responds. Response is usually the same.
• Spirituals oral tradition: african music, anglo-american hymns, old testament stories, oral tradition, group singing
• concert spiritual: post emancipation written spirituals, fisk jubilee singers and standardization, no longer participatory
• work songs: kept time while doing physical activity, focus while doing monotonous labor, morale.
• work songs musical aspects: steady rhythm, call and response, oral tradition, lyrics involved protest.
• operetta: european origins, light comic opera genre, classically trained singers, orchestras
• blue notes: out of tunes notes are done professionally and intentionally for style
• 12- Bar Blues Song: AAB Verses, 12 bar harmonic structures
• Blues Shuffle- snycopation
• Great Migration: 1910-1920, 1.5 million black people moved north
• Race records sound recordings that were made exclusively by and for African Americans. (Okeh Records)
• Commercialization of the blues: blues started becoming published
• vaudeville: a type of entertainment popular chiefly in the US in the early 20th century, featuring a mixture of speciality acts such as burlesque comedy and song and dance
• country blues - a style of blues music that originated in the rural areas of the southern United States
• classic blues: shares musical characteristics with spiritual and work songs, large impact on jazz, r&b, rock and roll, country music, hip hop
• electric blues - a style of blues music that incorporated electric amplification