MUSIC140 Lecture 2: Lecture 2 - Music 140
2 Dec 2017
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= division of labour- everybody does one job composer, lyrists, publisher etc. Becomes the center of professional music making. Sheet music was the medium from then and now. Most people purchasing the sheet music were competent amateurs: sheet music was more simplistic, breath control, short range of octaves. Idealized romance beginning and ending: pop so(cid:374)gs are a(cid:271)out that (cid:862)perfe(cid:272)t(cid:863) or (cid:862)heart(cid:271)reak(cid:863) ro(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e. Style: music: easy to play, easy to sing phrasing and range, aaba most common musical form. Broadways, musicals, films were early promotional for tin pan alley song (cid:862) o(cid:373)e(cid:449)here o(cid:448)er the rai(cid:374)(cid:271)o(cid:449)(cid:863) (arlen/harburg), 1939, from the wizard of oz: aaba structure, b structure creates a bit of a tension. In this song, the b section rhythm is doubled after a structure. The roots of western popular music were rooted from 1619. Because of the african slave trade (1619 1865)
