MUS 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: George Gershwin, Social Dance, Vibraphone
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Call and response: rapid exchange, usually of rifts, between two different timbres: solo voice and guitar; solo voice and choir; or saxophones and trumpets. Parlor song: a song to be sung at home in the parlor, like stephen foster"s beautiful. Dreamer, popular through most of the nineteenth century. Also called home songs and piano bench music. Minstrel show: a form of stage entertainment distinguished by cruel parodies of african. Minstrelsy was popular from the early 1840s to the end of the nineteenth century. Blackface: minstrel show practice in which white and (later) black performers applied burnt cork to darken their complexion. Tambo and bones: nicknames for the endmen in a minstrel show, so called because one usually played a tambourine and the other a pair of bones. Interlocutor: the straight man in a minstrel show. The interlocutor would sit in the middle of the semicircle and ask questions of the endmen, who would give comic replies.
