MMW 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Classical Music, Piano Roll, Jelly Roll Morton

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 14
• Professor: Steven Dennis Cassedy

Document Summary

Mmw 14 lecture 13 origins of modern popular music. Scott joplin: origin in african americans, mechanical recording just invented, pianos in the highest rate of ownership and purchase in history. Syncopation, but strong beats accented: accented stuff off of the beat, sets it apart and makes it the thing that it was. Free, largely european harmonies: traditional, old-fashioned, conventional, as if drawn from european classical music a century before. The performance: much of it played (largely) as written, note for note, contemporary accounts from early 20h century describe extensive improvisation. (cid:272)ott jopli(cid:374), (cid:862)maple leaf ag(cid:863: piano roll made 1916. Jelly oll morto(cid:374), (cid:862)maple leaf ag(cid:863: recorded 1938. Standard blues melody consists of twelve bars , four beats of each: though the number can very, typically the iv chords falls on the fifth bar. Listening examples (cid:862)pure(cid:863) blues: o(cid:271)ert joh(cid:374)so(cid:374), (cid:862)cross oad blues(cid:863, bessie (cid:373)ith, (cid:862) t. Louis blues(cid:863: recorded 1925, big ma(cid:373)a thor(cid:374)to(cid:374), (cid:862)hou(cid:374)d dog(cid:863, recorded 1952, b. b.