PERF-110 FA1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Frances Langford, Dizzy Gillespie, Swing Music
3 Dec 2017
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Tri(cid:374)gs that (cid:449)ere(cid:374)"t i(cid:374) jazz, introduction, muted brass, tuba, muted brass in different registers then the melody. Era of jazz: dixieland or new orleans jazz stays until late 1920s. Big band, swing is the next era of jazz. Big band that rehearses a lot and has great arrangements. Made pop music that was danceable and classic. From straight rhythm in sweet to hot, louder, swing rhythm louis armstrong is now doing pop music, not jazz (still does it his own way, sliding) Piano is playing nothing near ragtime, its playing chords. Very large part of the jazz we listen to today. Chorale simplifies, language (german) in renaissance, bach took it and built into complicated. If you get a harpsicord, it must be baroque. Strings, flutes, voice (but not as primary instrument. Then it would be renaissance), continuo accompaniment. Most of the music from medieval and renaissance is vocal. Early 1900s radio podcasting music, recordings, popularity of artists gets bigger.
