VPMB82H3 Lecture 11: VPMB82 Lecture 11
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Subject topic is usually depression, troubled hard time. Meant to be a social uplift and help get through the hard time. Jazz was starting to be popular in europe. Georges geshwin wrote musical, characters sing and also with spoken dialogue. Gilbert & sullivan was still written in western european language. Charlie parker (1920-1955) & dizzy gillespie"s (1917-1993) anthropology (p. 500) Contrafact: based on i got rhythm & cotton tail . Trading four with the drummer, call & response. Parker"s alto saxophone solo: percussive approach, atonality, quoting of popular tune. Miles davis" (1926-1991) bitches brew from the cd album kind of blue fusion. Bring in rock instrumentation, 2 electric keyboards, electric guitar. 27 minutes long, almost like a tone poem. No head motive, it is free form improvisation. Rock around the clock talks about breaking curfew. Use of slide guitar, common in country music. Rock music: 4/4 meter, emphasis on beat 2 & 4.
