MUSI 1530 Lecture Notes - Semitone, Ragtime, Al Jolson
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Ascap: american society of composers, authors and publishers. Founded in 1914, this association collected royalty payments from businesses that use music publicly. (45) Bass: the lowest notes of a composition, or the instruments that play them in an ensemble. (54) Often named after animals and associated with supposed black dance styles. Front line: a small group of instruments that play the melody and countermelody lines in an ensemble. Often includes wind and brass instruments like trumpet, clarinet, and trombone. (53) Jazz singer (the): the first movie to incorporate sound. Jolson"s character is a jewish cantor"s son who sings jazz in blackface. (45) Melody: a string of successive notes which together form a musical idea. Offbeats: rhythmic points between the main beats of a bar. Rhythm section: in a cabaret dance band, the back up section, including piano, banjo or guitar, drums and sometimes tuba or string bass. (46) Scale: a succession of notes in ascending and descending order.
