VPMA93H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Blue Note, Work Song, Major Scale
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Lecture #6 - 20170517 (wed) by hermia yau. Blues an expressive, soulful style of singing that emerged from the african american spiritual and work song at the end of the nineteenth century. The scale, tunes didn"t fit major/minor of european music or the piano keyboard. Spiritual: western scales, very round vowels, separate pronounce, rolling r. Call and response: one person starts and others follow with the same melody phrase. More rhythmic flexibility, a lot more lagging, slips and slides between pitch blue note the lowered third, seventh and sometimes fifth degrees of the otherwise major scale; the degree of inflection may vary considerably. Krzysztof penderecki, threnody: to the victims of hiroshima (8:37) Section 1 (0:35) high pitched dissonant clusters. Section 2 (1:58) varied texture of multiple sound effects in rapid succession. Section 3 (2:51) sustained tones and quarter-tone clusters linked with glissandos (a continuous or sliding movement from one pitch to another)
