VPMA93H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bessie Smith, Fingerboard, Work Song
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Examples: popular music from 1910: homophonic tradition, regular phrasing, consonant sounds, articulated/square rhythm. Influences: marching band, operatic singing hyper-articulated vowels: british ballads. Krzysztof penderecki, threnody: to the victims of hiroshima. Section 1 (0:35) high pitched dissonant clusters. Section 2 (1:58) varied texture of multiple sound effects in rapid succession. Section 3 (2:51) sustained tones and quarter-tone clusters linked with glissandos. Section 4 (7:13) isolated pitches and various sound effects. Section 5 (8:07) unison sound effects and clusters that lead to the final climactic chord tone cluster a highly dissonant, closely spaced collection of pitches sounding simultaneously. Unrelated pitches in their frequencies create dissonance glissando a continuous or sliding movement from one pitch to another for a piano, it would be sweeping you hand across the keys instead of pressing each key. Barack obama, amazing grace (performed june 2015): https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=in05jvnbs64. Krzysztof penderecki, threnody: to the victims of hiroshima (1960): https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=hilgthrhwp8.
