MUS 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Duple And Quadruple Metre, Culture Day, Duple Coachbuilders
30 Jan 2019
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In modern westerns popular music, duple meter is ubiquitous, so syncopation is used to avoid monotony: 1 2 3 4, or 1 2 3 4, dallas rad by dallas string band. Syncopation (part of time: overlapping of 2 fixed patterns, more than 1 meter (duple or triple) happening at the same time, complex, repeating pattern of unevenly-spaced accents. Early pop: mid 1800s - early 1930s, early forms of popular music, parlour songs, dance music, brass bands, tin pan alley. Stephen foster (1826-1864: first guy to make a living writing popular music, first important composer of american popular song, first full-time professional american songwriter, composed over 22 songs from 1840s-60s. Dance music: formal balls featured group dancing, rigidly proscribed dress and behaviour, 1800s: couples dancing increases in popularity, 1820s: the waltz causes a moral panic (men and women holding each other closely in public)
