MUSC 2140 Study Guide - Original Dixieland Jass Band, New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Fletcher Henderson
19 Apr 2013
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Blues was a sobering metaphor for the meaning of freedom. Brass band societies, which often spawned smaller dance groups, gave the music it"s melody instruments: trumpet (or cornet), trombone, clarinet known as the front line from their position on a marching band. Parading percussion also adapted into the modern drum set. Other source was the string ensemble featured violin, banjo, mandolin, and other instruments: from this, jazz borrowed the guitar an bass for its rhythm section. Piano was later added from the generation of solo ragtime pianists. Above the cornet, the clarinet usually played a countermelody (usually in 8th notes) Trombone plays less than the clarinet: usually slurs or glissandos (sometimes called the tailgate trombone, or smear) Cornet, clarinet, trombone improvised simultaneously in a dense, polyphonic texture collective improvisation: maybe the most distinctive feature of n. o. jazz. Continued to use the multistrain forms of ragtime. No star of the band: each had own space, rhythm, timbre.
