MUAR 392 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Essentialism, Berry Gordy, Brian Epstein
26 Sep 2013
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Many styles emerged from increasing immigrants in new york. Typical form: intro, vamp, 2 verses, chorus (aaba) polyrhythm: complex division of beats (one hand playing duple meter, the other in triple meter) #16 - billie holiday, they can"t take that away from me. 1937, pop (jazz) or tin pan alley. X24 - fred astaire, they can"t take that away from me composer: george gershwin genre: tin pan alley or pop. By convention, in most popular music the beat is notated as a quarter note. Rhythm: the way music moves in time / duration of notes in time, specific duration of musical sounds meter: organization of beats into measures. most common: 4/4 meter. Quadruple meter (common time): 4/4 time syncopation: upsetting of the normal pattern of accents: accents are shifted to weak beats. (normal pattern: accents fall on the first beat of the measure or initial subdivision of the beat) 1: irving berlin in tin pan alley (intro only) ch.
