MUSIC 78 Midterm: Midterm 1 study guide (Week 2,3,5)
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Puts more weight on 1 and 3 and tends to obey the bar-line phrasing. Idiophones (like ) - use: hand and worn on body. Mbira/ sansa (also known as thumb piano) various length of metals on wooden board - usually for melody. Rhythmically complex: (1) polyrhymic layered rhythmic parts (2) polymetric layered rhythmic groupings (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Talking drums: drums plays short phrases after certain words of songs. Hocketing notes/chords got alternated between voices and instruments. Multiphonics mostly wind instrument, playing two+ notes (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) First black music got widespread commercial success. General blues : composed tell a story. Melodies based on pentatonic scale (5 notes) Leadbelly (huddle ledbetter) fds w/ blind lemon jefferson. Robert johnson - transformed blues to art, very influential blues musician song name: Mamie smith first black artist recorded vocal blues , well known thru traveling shows.
