MUS 505 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Comic Opera, Sound Film, I Really Like You
19 Feb 2020
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Musical terminology (tin pan alley, jazz, ragtime, and dance music) Stephen foster (1826-1864: one of the first american songwriters, used styles of minstrelsy, light opera, folk songs, and ballads, able to create a memorable hooks and melodies, songs: "oh! Susanna", "beautiful dreamer", "jeannie with the light brown hair" Increased music publishing: printed faster, pianos made quickly and sold to masses, economics, rising middle class purchasing music and instruments, more disposable income for music as entertainment, going to concerts, taking lessons etc, demographics, rising middle class. Interested in european-derived music: growing sense of american nationalism. "my old kentucky home, goodnight" (1852) (stephen foster) "jeannie with the light brown hair" (1854) (stephen foster: operatic voice, very european sounding, classical and folk traditions, melody is the same in three lines (most memorable component) ,000 a month from the sales of it: song form: aaba within verse, c section in the chorus, verses are also called strophes.
