HISTORY OF JAZZ (79-326): SOME COURSE OBJECTIVES

Be able to recognize the blues and pop song forms

Be able to compare and contrast
Jazz and Blues

Be able to distinguish
rhythm, harmony, and melody

Use the following terms only in their musical sense:
Riff, Upbeat, Cool, Hot

Know the characteristics of the following and be able to distinguish them:
Ragtime
New Orleans collective improvisation
Swing
Bebop
Cool/West Coast jazz

Jazz and Blues rhythm sections
Delta Blues
Eastern Seaboard/Piedmont Blues
Chicago Blues
Zydeco



Know the key contributions/innovations of the following
and be able to recognize them
:

Scott Joplin
Jelly Roll Morton
Louis Armstrong
Bix Beiderbecke
Fletcher Henderson
Count Basie
Duke Ellington
Art Tatum
Charlie Parker
Blind Willie McTell
Lightning Hopkins
Buddy Bolden
Sonny Boy Williamson (I and II)
W.C. Handy

Willie Dixon
John Coltrane
Cecil Taylor
Dizzy Gillespie
Bud Powell
Miles Davis
Thelonious Monk
Sun Ra
Sonny Rollins
Ornette Coleman
Robert Johnson
Bessie Smith
Blind Blake
Leonard Chess


Terms to know:

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antiphonal (call-and-response)
atonal
break
bridge (or release)
chord
chord progression
collective improvisation
counterpoint
creole
doub1e - time
high-hat (or sock) cymbal
mode/modal
key
pedal point/drone

polyrhythm
polyphony
rhythm section
ride cymbal
riff
legato
staccato
turnaround
tonality
two-beat rhythm
4/4 rhythm
vibrato
voicing
walking bass



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