MUS 505 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Falsetto, Reverberation, Bessie Smith
19 Feb 2020
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Industry is aware of growing audience for particular genres/geographically-associated musics and decides to exploit those opportunities. Increased number of blacks living in urban areas: working/rising to higher economic classes, growing interest in purchasing record players/records/radio sets, 1st appearance of blues recordings released by industry in 1920. Classic blues (city/vaudeville: written in a more formal structure than its rural counterpart, usually in 12-bar blues form, accompanied by full band, based in vaudeville/urban areas. Seldom improvised: written on sheet music, mainstream blues songs composed in the vaudeville/classic style. Some call and response between voice and piano: adds chromatic pitches (pitches that don"t belong to the scale) to the melody for decoration, adds extra depth. Small changes in articulation effective: e. g. , north and south are longer notes in repetition, pitch drop at ends of phrases often resembles speech, considered expressive. It"s so cold up here that the words freeze in your mouth.
