vocab
tonality
The organization of all the tones and harmonies of a piece of music in relation to a tonic.
who wrote the national anthem?
Francis Scott Key
who changed the national anthem with his electric guitar?
Jimmy Hendrix
What is the birth place of jazz?
New Orleans
Any songs that were named in class.
major key
a tonality that generally has a bright, joyful, or happy feeling.
What did the national anthem originate from?
British pub song
Who sang the song "Times they are A-Changin'
Bob Dylan
Who was Duke Ellington?
Composer who helped bridge the racial divide by creating a group of talented African American musicians who played incredible music.
what is folk music
music that originates in traditional popular culture or that is written in such a style. Folk music is typically of unknown authorship and is transmitted orally from generation to generation.
instrumentation
The way a composer or arranger takes musical sounds and assigns them to specific instruments.
Name of the fort Key was at when writing the anthem.
Fort Mchenry
Who sang "What did You Learn at School?" and "Little Boxes?"
Pete Seeger
Name a type of music that influenced jazz
ragtime, spirituals, folk, menstrual
What song won The Best song competition?
"Bohemian Rhapsody"
composition
original piece of music that can be repeated, typically developed over time, and preserved either in notation or in a sound recording. Also, the way a song is put together.
Who was the artist that sang the national anthem while sick in a video we watched?
Pink
what were the students at Kent State protesting?
Vietnam war and bombings in Cambodia
Who was the first African American to get a Grammy for Jazz?
Ella Fitzgerald
What was the name of the project in which our world sent sounds that represent us into space?
The Voyager Golden Records
melody
linear succession of sounds (pitches) and silences moving through time; the horizontal structure of music.
Why was Scott Key at fort Mchenry?
He was negotiating.
How did television affect racism in the United States? As seen in "A Tisket, A Tasket" and Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra?
Humanized people and made color harder to see. Set a positive example for the public to follow.
Sunday school songs for her church kids.
Who wrote The Planets, Op. 32?
Gustav Holst