MUSC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Leonard Bernstein, Tritone, Serialism
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Imaginary landscape 4 (1951) chance series of increased control: what can you do with a piano, prepared piano series of performers playing the radios. Friday: blues, african american the south, emotion hard or difficult. Four features of the blues: aab lyric structure. (cid:862)good(cid:271)(cid:455)e (cid:374)orth, hello outh, good(cid:271)(cid:455)e north hello outh, its so (cid:272)old up here that the (cid:449)ords freeze i(cid:374) (cid:455)our (cid:373)outh(cid:863) Notes that are flattened: classic blues has 3 chords, one based on the first note of the scale, one based on the fourth note of the scale, and one based on the fifth note of the scale. Is an improvised form be(cid:272)ause the perfor(cid:373)ers origi(cid:374)all(cid:455) (cid:272)ould(cid:374)(cid:859)t afford to (cid:271)u(cid:455) (cid:373)usi(cid:272) sheets or lear(cid:374) ho(cid:449) to read (cid:373)usi(cid:272) Learned how to play by ear: bessie smith (1894-1937) goodbye north, hello south. Improvised: upbeat, dixie land jazz band , a front line: trumpet, clarinet and trombone. Trombone lower and slower: a rhythm section: drums, banjo and bass.
