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MUS 109 Bradley University
Final, Spring 2012
36
Music
Undergraduate 1
05/06/2012

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John Philip Sousa
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Beginning of American Jazz - Lead the US Marine Band - Joined Navy and raised money for WWI efforts
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Duke Ellington
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Swing band composer and conductor - 2000 compositions and arrangements - C. Jam Blues
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J. S. Bach
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Baroque Era - Composed over 300 cantatas - Cantata 140
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Mozart
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Classical Era - performed for royalty as a child - Symphony #40
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Beethoven
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Classical Era - helped usher in Romantic Music - Deaf - Symphony #5
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Louis Armstrong
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"Father of Jazz" - received musical training at boys home - mentored by King Oliver - Hotter than That
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Alan Freed
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Cleveland DJ who coined the term "rock and roll" in 1950s
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Wynton Marsalis
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Elevated the making and presentation of Jazz - 9 Grammy awards, pulitzer prize, peabody award - currently Artistic Director of Jazz of Lincoln Center in NYC
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Theme and Variations
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Melody is presented and then repeated in a variety of ways
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Chicago Jazz
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Solo improvisation - swing rhythm - Louis Armstrong, Hotter Than That
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Gregorian Chant
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Middle Ages, A cappella vocal music
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Mass
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Catholic church service: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei
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Blues
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folk music - melody is improvised and composed - AAB pattern - Bessie Smith, Lost Your Head Blues
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Sonata Form
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Classical Era - 3part based on melody and harmony - exposition, development, recapitulation
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Program Music
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Instrumental music that tells a story
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Jazz
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Improvisation and swing - Dixieland Jazz, Chicago Jazz - harmony of 12 bar blues
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March
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style of symphonic band - Duke Ellington, C-Jam Blues
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Cantata
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Baroque Era - composed for Lutheran Churches - Bach, Cantata 140
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Ragtime
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Dance Music for bars/saloons - Sedalia, MO: "ragged beat" syncopation - created by musicians who played in bands during the day
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Swing
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New Jazz style of improvisation and composition - smooth rhythmic pattern - popular dance music - many instruments - Influence of Louis Armstrong
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Classical Era
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1750-1820 - Beethoven, Mozart - Sonata Form
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Romantic Era
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1820-1900 - Schumann, Wagner, Medelsson, Chopin, Berlioz - (Beethoven introduced individuality)
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Baroque Era
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1600-1750 - Bach, Vivaldi, Handel
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Modern Music
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1900-2012 - minimalism, atonality, tone clusters - Jazz and Blues
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Middle Ages / Renaissance
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1450-1600 - Palestrina Mass, Desprez - imitative polyphony
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Leitmotif
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short musical idea associated with a person, a place, an object, or a thought in a drama
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Endless Melody
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In an opera - music is continuous with the drama
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August 1, 1981 at midnight
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First airing on MTV
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Doctrine of Affections
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Baroque Era - one mood per movement of music
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Prepared Piano
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Created by John Cage - putting a variety of objects between the strings of the piano to make unique sounds
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Paris
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The center of music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance - Notre Dame Cathedral
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Vienna
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The center of music from the Baroque Era through the Romantic Era
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New Orleans
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The birthplace of Dixieland Jazz
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A cappella
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vocal music without accompaniment
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Atonality
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The absence of a key center - not in a major or minor scale - all of the notes are equal in importance
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Scat Singing
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Imitating the sound of an instrument(s) using vocals - Louis Armstrong call and response with guitar
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