VPMA93H3 Lecture 6: Lecture 6 Notes
30 Dec 2015
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Charleston shooting funeral of reverend of church. Known to be major in race relations. Obama delivered eulogy, then delivered amazing grace. Very consistent, not a lot of variation. Marching band type music: but then something happened, in the background there was music that was sung by african americans, suddenly boomed. Similar to how you would approach speaking voice. Really on pitch, but also slipping, and sliding. The way she emphasized parts of her words similar to speaking blues an expressive, soulful style of singing that emerged from the african. American spiritual and work song at the end of the nineteenth century. Canter singing and then people singing along (referred to as lining out) Pitch lots of twanging, regional thing (swoop up, amazing gr-ace) Amazing grace deacon and congregation of new bethel baptist church detroit, European tradition of lining out taken over by african americans. Not hymnal, someone sings a line of music, and then you follow in.
