MU 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Chord Progression, Fletcher Henderson, Benny Goodman
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Unit 5: the swing era: 1935-1945, benny goodman, glenn miller, the dorsey bros. , artie shaw, count basie, duke. Swing": evolved from the jazz influenced dance orchestras of the 1920"s, melodies consisted of conversation" among the sections, trading riffs back and forth, an adaptation of the african practice of call and response". Make up of the swing band: 2 trumpets and a cornet (trumpet like instrument, 3 trombones, 5 saxophones, rhythm section of 4 instruments. In the early 1930"s the man most responsible for shaping the sound of big-band swing was fletcher henderson: musical ex. Swing as popular music: the swing era was the one time that jazz was a truly popular music, swing as jazz was instrumental music but swing as popular music was usually sung (vocal music. mus. Chattanooga choo choo -1941, glenn miller) his death in 1944 seemed to signal the end of the swing era.
