MUSC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Wooden Fish, Perfume River, Nomic
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African-american style of spirituals: blue notes: microtonally flatted notes (lowered 3rds, 5th and 7th, syncopation and counter-rhythms, responsorial singing, interjections. Glory! yes, brother! : gospel (leading to what we now know) Around 1900: gospel, pentacostal church, ragtime, blues, jazz, new orleans- cultural context led to musical fusion. Blues: pitch set (blue notes, rhythm- hemiola, syncopation; rhythmic complexity, call and response, three recognizable elements of blue, three line poetic form. > often starts out with problem, repetition, answer- aa"b. > humor: blue scale (c,eb,f, f#,g,bb, c, chord progression (12 bar blues) > i, i, i, i/iv iv i i/v iv ii. Solo fiddling tradition(original) from scotland preserved in nova. Fiddle and reel societies in modern scotland: exchange and integration. Other issues: double migration, dispersion - diaspora, preservation: nova scotia solo fiddling tradition vs. fiddle and reel societies, exchange and integration: indian community in trinidad - chutney, .
