MU - Music MU 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Leonard Bernstein, Chromatic Scale, Bernard Herrmann
12 Apr 2017
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Assignment: read chapter 39 on broadway musicals / listen to tonight from west side. Commercial name for blues coming to the city. Vocals, often saxophone, rock and roll rhythm. Motown records main promoter of music and the stars of the music. Urban poetry music is spoken in rhythms over heavy percussive beats. Many kinds of rap from harsh (gangster) to more wide appealing pop rap . Played on acoustic string instruments: fiddles, acoustic guitar, mandolin, banjo etc. Simple messages of everyday life, work, and love. Strong beat / duple rhythm in four ( 1 2 3 4 ) You occasionally can heavy metal band (sub rock genre) Bebop or bop (type of modern jazz) more dissonance and complex rhythms. Blue ronda a la turk by dave brubeck p. 363. Popular music: is promoted and influenced by our economic and media culture. Examples of larger popular genres of the last 20th century we defined yesterday include:
