SOC 2700 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Low Down, Tom-Tom Drum, The Del-Vikings
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Jackie brenston and his delta cats 1951 which is considered by many to be the first rock and roll song. Formal diagram: breaks into sections and lists them according to music timings. Simple verse form: repeats a single section of music 8 times. Beats: music in groups of four (1,2,3,4) (1,2,3,4) Typical formal types in american popular music: an analysis of musical forms is a study of the way sections are structured in a piece of music and the way these sections combine to produce larger structures. 12 bar blues: common structural pattern found in rhythm and blues, rock and roll and many styles of jazz. Consists of of twelve groups of four beat measures and is distinctive because of the way its measures fall into three groups of four phrase: often feature a lyric that is repeated in the next four measures. This shows the chords that are typically played in those measures.