MUSC 2150- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 32 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Week 1 lecture notes (tues. : popular music doesn"t have prestige to it, popular music has become more accessible to more people, popular music can be simpler. Rock around the clock - bill haley and his comets: song is considered scandalous, about sex. Instead of an agricultural economy, we have an industrial economy: happened to canada in the 1950s, only had it for 30 years, the labour unions were brought about due to the industrial revolution. Tin-pan alley music: sounded like pots falling when you would hear it in new york, most of the publications were through an organization called american society of. In it"s most luscious form, it is accompanied by a full band or an orchestra. Country western: a lot less homogeneous than tin pan alley, has a lot of sub-types, changes from region to region. Bluegrass: this style of music is heavily influenced by fiddle playing, virtuosic playing, requires a demanding level of skill from the performer.
