MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Justin Bieber, Worshipful Company Of Stationers And Newspaper Makers, Faith Hill
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Don"t take notes while you are reading. There will be questions from the textbook. Second test not cumulative, but the exam is. Music is product of its moment in history. It responds to the changes in society when it was released. Comes down to perspective: how old you are, where you grew up, your economic status. End of the big band era (pop music) Big bands had dominated music industry since mid 1930"s: concert bands, jazz bands: 20 players (trumpet players, saxophones, percussions) Top of the popular music charts in 1945: example: sentimental journey summer of 1945 (brown/homer/ green, 1944), This song accompanied the soldiers back to america, their own sentimental. Journey": there is always a song of the summer , song of the holidays . Important pop music of the period were bass and woodwind instruments (trumpet, sax, trombone)
