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Title: Modern Contemporary Music


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Modern/ Contemporary Music
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John Phillip Sousa(1854 1932)
  • The March King
  • Emphasized brass instruments
  • The Stars and Stripes Forever.
  • The Washington Post

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Aaron Copland (1900 1990)
  • Used American forms of music (jazz, folk) in his
    work
  • Worked as a film scorer in Hollywood and won a
    Pulitzer Prize for his work on ballets
  • Hoe Down from Rodeo
  • Appalachian Song

4
Igor Stravinsky (1882 1971)
  • Seen as the musical counterpoint to Picasso
  • Changed his style many times
  • The Rite of Spring
  • Firebird Suite

5
Duke Ellington (1899 1974)
  • Jazz musician
  • Piano player / Big Band Leader
  • Focused on Big Band sound
  • It Dont Mean a Thing (If It Aint Got That
    Swing)
  • Take the A Train

6
George Gershwin
  • American composer known for his clever lyrics and
    jazz-style compositions
  • Porgy and Bess, first American, English-speaking
    opera
  • Rhapsody in Blue

7
Folk Music
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WC Handy
  • Father of the Blues
  • Introduced a new style of music to the world
  • Did not invent the blues but brought them to a
    worldwide audience
  • 1st blues song Memphis Blues
  • Beale Street

9
Robert Johnson
  • King of the Delta Blues
  • Used voice and guitar only
  • Dubbed father of rock and roll
  • Crossroads

10
Jimmie Rogers
  • Father of Country Music
  • Guitar, voice
  • Yodel
  • In the Jailhouse Now

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Bill Monroe
  • The Father of Bluegrass Music
  • High lonesome sound
  • Mandolin with bass, guitar, and fiddle
  • Blue Moon of Kentucky

12
Woody Guthrie
  • Noted for his identification with
  • the common man
  • the poor
  • the downtrodden
  • Hated fascism and exploitation
  • This Land Is Your Land

13
Bob Dylan
  • Influenced heavily by Woody Guthrie
  • Became most popular folk musician since Guthrie,
    but lost folk audience for going electric
  • Blowin in the Wind

14
Popular Music
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Frank Sinatra/ The Rat Pack
  • Big Band Sound
  • One lead singer with full orchestral arrangement
  • Strangers in the Night

16
Hank Williams, Sr.
  • The Hillbilly Shakespeare
  • Honky Tonk Style
  • Hey Good Lookin
  • You Cheatin Heart

17
Early Rock and Roll
  • Electric guitar, stand-up bass, drums, piano,
    saxophone
  • Bill Haley and the Comets Rock Around the Clock

18
Buddy Holly
  • Rock and roll chords (C, G, E)
  • 15 1 hits on the Billboard Top 40 in one year
  • Peggy Sue

19
Elvis Presley
  • King of Rock and Roll
  • Huge teen idol and heart throb
  • Performed older African-American blues songs
  • Jailhouse Rock

20
The Beatles
  • The British Invasion
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand
  • Experimentation with musical instruments
  • Hey, Jude

21
Beach Boys
  • The California Surf Sound
  • Experimentation with musical time signatures,
    music
  • Good Vibrations

22
James Brown
  • The Godfather of Soul
  • Soul music
  • Funk music
  • Papas Got a Brand New Bag

23
Motown
  • Berry Gordy
  • Black sound
  • Back-up singers and doo-wop groups
  • I Heard it Through the Grapevine

24
Johnny Cash
  • The Man in Black
  • Boom-chick-a-boom sound
  • Ring of Fire
  • Folsom Prison Blues

25
Ray Charles
  • Rhythm and blues
  • Added gospel sound to rock and roll
  • Piano and boogie-woogie sound
  • Ive Got a Woman

26
Led Zepplin
  • Hard rock/ heavy metal
  • Volume to 11
  • Kashmir
  • Stairway To Heaven

27
Reggae
  • Bob Marley
  • Jimmy Cliff
  • Kettle drums with basic electric guitar
  • Redemption Song

28
Singer/ Songwriters
  • Blended different genres with intelligent
    songwriting
  • Willie Nelson
  • Paul Simon
  • Bruce Springsteen

29
George Jones
  • The Possum
  • Songs of everyday people and tragic loss
  • Experimented with voice and phrasing
  • He Stopped Loving Her Today

30
Disco
  • Infusion of funk, soul and salsa music
  • Rhythm guitar with a chicken scratch style
  • Shaft, by Isaac Hayes

31
Michael Jackson
  • Changed pop music into upbeat numbers with
    synthesized beats
  • The King of Pop
  • Thriller

32
Rap
  • MC Master of Ceremonies
  • A mix of spoken word, sampled melodies, and
    scratching records
  • Sugar Hill Gang
  • Rappers Delight

33
Jazz
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Charlie Parker
  • The Yardbird or Bird
  • Considered among greatest saxophonists of all
    time
  • Helped create bebop

35
Louis Armstrong
  • Satchmo
  • Trumpet player and singer
  • Reinvented himself as both Big Band performer,
    pop singer, and jazz trumpeter
  • Summertime

36
Thelonius Monk
  • Pianist who used stride piano techniques along
    with more avant garde approach
  • Used the entire keyboard, not just those notes
    in tune
  • Round Midnight

37
Ella Fitzgerald
  • The First Lady of Song
  • Three octave range
  • Great American Songbook
  • Summertime

38
Billie Holliday
  • Lady Day
  • Along with Fitzgerald, considered one of greatest
    jazz voices of all time
  • Strange Fruit

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Miles Davis
  • Bebop Throttled notes
  • Cool jazzImprovisation
  • Modal jazz No keys, just notes.
  • Jazz fusionSoul, RB, and jazz added with
    electric instrumentation
  • Freddie Freeloader

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Herbie Hancock
  • Redefined the rhythm section of jazz bands
  • Synthesizer innovator
  • Rockit
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