MUS 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sixty Minute Man, Ragtime, Cakewalk
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African influence: most strongly felt in the rhythm of rock, use of percussion instruments and percussive-playing techniques, riff-like melodic ideas, short melodies existing in pairs, layered textures, percussion + vocals, dense textures, elaborate percussion ensables, open forms. Classical influence: mid-19th century popular songs for social dancing were in a simpli ed art-song style, henry russell was the most in uential songwriter in the 1830s-1840s. Anglo-american folk influence: ballads: songs that tell stories, instrumental dance music (jigs, reels, etc. , fiddle, banjo, rural, lower economic class. Features from anglo-american folk music: story told in the vernacular (plain, everyday language, untrained vocal quality; rough voice, heterophony, verse-refrain form, up-tempo dance rhythms. Minstrel music: virginia minstrels, march 7, 1843: rst complete show in boston"s masonic temple, performed in blackface . Page !2: lovin" dan, another character in minstrelsy, reappeared in billy ward"s sixty minute man in 1951.
