Mediation
Media designed to reach the general public is called ____ media.
Mass media.
Composer of "The Banshee" and "The Tides of Manaunaun"
Henry Cowell
The artist who recorded "The Flood Blues" in response to floods plaguing Black communities along the Mississippi in the South in the early 20th C
Sippie Wallace
The singer-songwriter who blended sacred and secular with her bluesy electric guitar and gospel style
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Name for the sounds around us, or "auditory weather," in a particular environment, originally coined by R. Murray Schafer
Soundscape
Name three ways that our experience of Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do" is mediated.
Many things (music video, social media, her past work, her personal life, YouTube, your laptop/phone, your headphones/speakers, viewing it on a projector in class...)
The technique Ruth Crawford Seeger explores in her string quartet where ____ is the rule and doesn't need to be resolved
Dissonance counterpoint
Composer/performer of "Tiger Rag" who played virtuosically and improvisationally, never notating his music
Art Tatum
Name the two genres that are the biggest major influences on the development of rock n' roll
Rhythm and blues (R&B), country and western
Name of Sun Ra's avant garde experimental jazz composition (around 21 mins long) that shares its name with his film
Choose either Motown or K-Pop, and name 3 ways the label/industry mediates its teen idol stars
Many options: outfits, hair, music video (K-Pop), 7 inch singles (Motown), tv appearances, album art, radio (esp Motown)...
Arnold Schoenberg's expressionist, experimental music technique where all notes in the chromatic scale are present and arranged in specific ways
(12-tone) serialism
What is the typical twelve bar blues progression, in Roman numerals?
I I I I
IV IV I I
V IV I I (or V)
Supremes song with rapid Morse-code style guitar composed by Holland-Dozier-Holland
You Keep Me Hanging On
Name for a type of sound that is heard without the originating cause being seen (as in recorded sound)
Acousmatic sound
How does Paul Whiteman mediate Rhapsody in Blue in "The King of Jazz?"
Name three of the techniques Charles Ives uses in his experimentalism
experimental form, high levels of dissonance, rhythmic complexity, polyrhythms, polytonality, polymeters, chord clusters/tone clusters, quotation, collage
Name two songs that are built on Gershwin's "Rhythm Changes"
Charlie Parker: "Salt Peanuts," "Dexterity," "Anthropology," "Steeple Chase"
Duke Ellington: "Cotton Tail"
Lester Young: "Lester Leaps In"
Thelonious Monk: "Rhythm-a-ning"
Riot Grrl band who originally performed the song recently covered by the Linda Lindas, "Rebel Girl"
Bikini Kill
Name of John Cage piece that uses a process music technique, where segments of tape are ordered and spliced using chance
Williams Mix
Name the radio DJ who is credited with giving rock n' roll its name, obscuring its racial origins in Black R&B music
Alan Freed
In La Monte Young's piece about feeding the piano, he writes "the performer may then feed the piano or leave it to eat by itself." Leaving this decision to the performer is an example of what kind of experimental technique?
Aleatoric or chance music
Rhythmic device in jazz, blues, and later rock n' roll where the band emphasizes beat 1 and then rests, to allow a soloist or vocalist space to be featured
Stop time
Name of the Motown studio band who played on virtually every Motown hit of the 60s
The Funk Brothers
Name of the Italian futurist who wrote "The Art of Noise"
Luigi Russolo