MUS 2000 : Midterm Notes
Document Summary
For the midterm, you should know the following topics: Jelly roll morton and his red hot peppers. Bridged the gap between ragtime piano style and jazz piano style. Red hot peppers piano, trumpet, trombone, clarinet, banjo, bass, drums (call & response, solo break, stop time) black bottom stomp . Louis armstrong extroverted player, used marijuana, fbi file due to little rock 9, Bix beiderbecke roots, musical style, first important white jazz musician, died early, composition for piano, introspective. Basic stylistic concepts, development of arranging, dance music, 3 main proponents, main instrumentation. Duke ellington roots, compositional style, important soloists in the band, musical examples, Cotton club in harlem, jungle sounds, voiced across sections of the band, multiple versions of pieces, proportion in music, fibonacci series, golden section, . 618. Count basie kansas city swing style, brass vs. reeds, first great rhythm section, riff based compositions, disappearance of stride, lester young influence.
