MUSI 1530 Lecture Notes - Background Music, Doo-Wop, Jump Blues
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Bel canto beautiful singing ; classical vocal technique that produces clarity of the voice, and promotes a resonant, open timbre, and the elongation of single vowel sounds; Frank sinatra claimed to have used this as the basis of his singing (p. 159) Coda tail concluding (often very short) section of a piece. (p. 161) Countrypolitan country music geared to an urban audience (p. 185) Cover a recreation of a previously existing song. This is often done when an artist/recording company releases its own version of with the intention of cashing in on its commercial potential, but may also be argued to act as a form of homage. (p. 170) Doo-wop vocal harmony groups of post ww ii period rhythm and blues (p. 177) Jump blues; jump bands a scaled down version of the swing band; the first commercially successful category of rhythm and blues just after ww ii (p. 170) Melisma many notes sung to a single syllable.
