Post on 11-Jan-2017
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ObjectivesLearn about some of the basic musical features of jazz Learn about the origins of jazz with its roots in blues music and work songs and spirituals Learn about ragtime music and Dixieland jazz and their basic musical features as early types of jazz
WHERE DID JAZZ AND BLUES COME FROM?
Originally performed by one singer usually accompanied by a guitar and occasionally a piano. 12 bar structure
The Blues Grew out of WORK SONGS and SPIRITUALS
SYNCOPATED solo Piano
Scott Joplin
The EnterntainerStomp left hand piano
Spirituals• A mixture of the SYNCOPATIONS and POLYRHYTHMS of African music
with the hymn-tunes the slaves took from the white settlers
The Blues
Originally performed by one singer usually accompanied by a guitar and occasionally a piano. 12 bar chord structure1st line of lyrics usually repeated
The Blues grew out of WORK SONGS and SPIRITUALS
Ragtime•Solo Piano• Regular left-hand accompaniment called
the STRIDE contrasted against the SYNCOPATED right hand melody• Famous composer – Scot Joplin• ‘The Entertainer’
early 20th century
Dixieland JazzIdentify the
instruments
Double Bass
Guitar
Trombone
Snare drumBass Drum
Trumpet
Trumpet
IMPROVISATION took a familiar melody and “played about” with it.
The Eagle Jazz Band, taken in New Orleans in 1916