Friendly Warning Test # 1 TODAY : 22 September (TUESDAY) covers Chapter 1 & Terminology NB. Testing will begin c. 3:30 pm
Jan 16, 2016
Friendly Warning
Test # 1 TODAY:22 September (TUESDAY)
covers Chapter 1 & Terminology
NB. Testing will begin c. 3:30 pm
NO TEST # 1 Materialscovered today
3:00 – 3 :25 pm
Anything on following slides belongs to Test # 2 or later.
Chapter 2
• Earliest (original) US popular forms (18th C)
• Minstrelsy (1840s-80s, and beyond)
• Stephen Foster – 1st US popular composer
• Bands – Brass and other
• Tin Pan Alley – the Sheet Music Industry
• Ragtime (1880s-1910s) – syncopated piano
• Phonograph – modern technology
Stephen Foster(1826-1864)
• b. Pittsburgh, d. NYC(never in the South)
• 1st US professional song composer (“popular”)
• Over 200 songs
• Sold outright (no royalties)
• Hardworking “craftsman”
• Incredibly popular
• Marginally successful
• Stephen Foster(Memorial at U of Pitt )
“Old Folks at Home”(or “Way down upon the Swannee River….”)
Stephen Foster's Sketchbook:Old Folks at Home
Pee Dee River (South Carolina) Suwannee River (Florida)
Original lyrics: Florida State Song
Revised: State Song - Florida Dept. of State
Foster’s Songs
• Multiple audiences• “Genteel” tradition (sentimental)
- Parlor songs for home use
- Marilyn Horne sings Beautiful Dreamer (vaimusic.com) – YouTube
• Minstrelsy- work w/ Christy’s Minstrels- “Ethiopian Melodies”- “Plantation Songs”- Comic Songs
- OLD FOLKS AT HOME - Original 1851 Verses - Tom Roush- Johnny Cash - Camptown Races – YouTube- "Oh Susanna" as performed by Al Jolson - YouTube
“Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair”
Ex.: Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair - YouTube
“Jeanie” (p. 3-4)
“Jeanie” (p. 5-6)
Form of “Jeanie”
• Introduction (4 mm)
• “A1” Phrase – (4 mm) incomplete cadence
• “A2” Phrase – (4 mm) modulates to dominant
• “B” Phrase – (4 mm) new melody
• “A3” Phrase – (4 mm) strong cadence in tonic
• Repeat for each new stanza
• Coda
• A A B A = “Song Form”
Dance Music & (Brass) Bands
• Social activity for upper classes (& wannabes)
• Balls based in European social practices- formal dress & strict etiquette- pre-selected list of dances (group & couples)
• Dance types include: Cotillion (Promenade), Waltz, Polka, Mazurka, Two-Step, One-Step
• Rural imitations much less formal
Civil War Bands (and After)
“Town Bands”Danville, KY: Advocate-Messenger Brass Band
Allentown (PA) Band(since 1828!)
“Business Bands”
• Professional Concert Bands
• 50+ members (winds, brass & percussion)
• Sousa Band – most famous- John Philip Sousa (US Marine Band)- independent concert band
• Touring Ensemble (US & the World)
• Recording – early cylinders and records(Sousa opposed “mechanical music”)
The Sousa Band
Sousa Band (c. 1900)John Philip Sousa
(1854-1932)