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NOMEDIAPDF
NOMEDIAPDF
OUTLINE
•Music Basics
•Early popular music
•Evolution into rock & roll
•The Golden Era of Rock
•Diversification into rap, punk,
electronic music, etc.
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WHY DO
THIS?
• End-of-year fun
• Art appreciation
• Science is everywhere!
MUSIC BASICS
Thanks, ears and brain!
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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxcbppCX6Rk
PITCH
• High notes: high frequency, short wavelengths
• Higher energy
• Lose these frequencies with age
• Low notes: low frequency, long wavelengths
• Travel farther
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Many complex meters just a combination of 2, 3, and 4: Dave Brubeck - Take 5 [3+2]
Meter?
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Mary had a
little lamb
little lamb
little lamb
Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow
Ma ry had a
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• Instruments join:
• Count: 4, 4, 4, 6
• Don’t forget pauses: 4 + pause, 4 + pause, 4 + pause, 6
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No beat
EMPHASIZED BEATS:
ON BEAT AND OFF BEAT
Jefferson Airplane-White
Rabbit
Drums/bass on beat,
guitar/voice off beat
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RHYTHM
• The pattern of music, repetition which connects the sounds
• Linked to beat, but could be part of melody/harmony
• Common in drums, bass, good for dancing!
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GENRE (ZHON-RUH)
• Genre – A style of music (e.g. rock, rap, country, etc.) with similar
instruments, elements, styles, themes, etc.
• Not always self-assigned, many sub-genres
• Examples:
• Heavy metal: Black Sabbath - Paranoid
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• Chaos to kids
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PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSICAL
PREFERENCE
• Rite of Passage – The desire to break out and forge own path
• Source of counterculture, rebellion
• Tribalism – The desire to connect to your group
• Including parents, family, culture, etc.
• Imprinting – Instinctual learning that happens at critical life stage
• Famous in ducklings
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Imprinting
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HOW DOES
NEW MUSIC
GET MADE?
• All music is a variant on previous music
• Nothing is really new
• Because of tribalism/imprinting, nothing is truly “better”
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Late
Early
EVOLUTION AS A MUSIC ANALOGY
• Evolution is small genetic changes (mutations) over time,
eventually creating new organisms
• Music, also, had small modifications in the music which created
new types of music (genres)
• Mixing
(two populations into one)
• Mutation
(accidental innovation)
• Revival
(convergent evolution)
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Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto #1, mvmt. 1 (~1875) Offenbach’s Belle Nuit, Ô Nuit D’amour (1881)
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FOSSIL RECORD
• Older it is, harder to find
• Rocks get buried, destroyed, etc.
• Same in music!
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FAUNAL
Old or New? Name the decade! One song each 1920s-2010s
SUCCESSION
• Older it is, the more different it is to what we have today,
making it harder to know what is going on
• More assumptions as you fill in missing information
• Gives each time period a unique style
• Same in music!
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1950s 1970s 1920s 1990s 1960s 2010s 1940s 1980s 2000s 1930s
FAUNAL
Old or New? Name the decade!
SUCCESSION
• Older it is, the more different it is to what we have today,
making it harder to know what is going on
• More assumptions as you fill in missing information
• Gives each time period a unique style
Bonus Round! (these are harder and not one per decade)
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PATCHES
Good example of how times change
Patches Peaked at #6 in 1962
(and how ‘better’ is relative)
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EARLIEST HISTORY
• Phonograph invented by Edison (1877)
• Minstrels – Very racist, appropriated culture, inc.
• Stephen Foster
• Oh Susanna, Camptown Races, Dixie, My Old Kentucky Home, Shoo Fly, Turkey in the Straw
• Tin Pan Alley – Produced many popular songs from 1885-1920+
• Broadway – Opera-lite musical theater for common people
• Ragtime – Dance-y piano music
Samuel Rous – Give my regards to
Paul Robeson – Old Folks at Home (Foster) Broadway (George Cohen)
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12-bar example
BLUES
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Influences:
BARBERSHOP
• Disputed origins , but very popular 1900-1920
• 19th C. African American? 17th C. British?
• “Ringing,” strong 4-part harmony with overtones, extra sounds
• Many popular songs use a less complex, but similar, vocal harmony
Schmitt Brothers – Up a Lazy River (Carmichael/Arodin)
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Gershwin-
Rhapsody in Blue
JAZZ
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EDIACARAN
• About 600 million years ago, some of the first simple ‘animals’ evolve
• Similar to early rock and roll/pop, a ‘preview’ of things to come
• Start of bilateral symmetry (that you have as well)
First clam-like thing Trilateral symmetry?!?
First animal?
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BRANCHES OF BLUES
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COUNTRY
Modern country
stylistically similar
GOLDEN ERA OF COUNTRY
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Pinetop Smith-
Louis Jordan- Big Mamma Thornton- ‘Contemporary’ R&B:
Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie
Saturday Night Fish Fry Hound Dog Boyz II Men-Thank You
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Four Lads-
Istanbul RISE OF VOCAL GROUPS
• Jazz/swing lounge acts (crooners) popular in 30’s and 40’s
like Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis
Jr., Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra (first heartthrob?)
• 40’s and 50’s see rise of vocal groups, in two categories:
• Doo Wop – 3- or 4-part singing, R&B influence,
onomatopoeia
• Some of the first crossover/mainstream (also popular with white
audiences) and racial integration in pop music
• Jazz/Big Band Vocal Groups like the Four Lads, The
Lettermen, Four Freshmen
• Both use harmonic elements from barbershop
Frank Sinatra- Nat King Cole- The Lettermen-
The Chords- Marcels-
You Make Me Feel So Mona Lisa When I Fall In Love
Sh-Boom Blue Moon
Young
(first crossover hit!)
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~1950:
ROCKABILLY
Nekromantix-
Stray Cats-
Nekronauts
Rock This Town
(Psychobilly)
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SOUL
Percy Sledge-
When a Man
Loves a Woman
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• Fats Domino
• Elvis considered him the real ”king”
Whitewashed
version
• Little Richard
• Famous for showmanship
• Dick Dale
• King of surf guitar
• Early use of amp noise to change sound
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• Buddy Holly
• Started lineup of two guitars, bass, drum
• Died with Valens “The day the music died”
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CAMBRIAN
• Speciation - One species become many
• Famous example: Cambrian explosion
• When hard parts evolved, many forms (“ideas”) evolved
• If this new idea works, then the animals flourish!
• When pop music started taking off, it flourished!
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ARMS RACE
• Used in science (and politics)
• One group outcompeting or trying to outperform another
• Occurs in popular music, especially in the 1960s
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Famous Uncle
SURF ROCK
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Shirelles- Shangri-Las-
Supremes- Ronettes-
Will You Still Love Remember
Where Did Our Be My Baby
Me Tomorrow (Walking in the
Love Go
Sand)
Early feminism
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BRITISH INVASION
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PSYCHEDELIC ROCK
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Fish?
Us? Starfish
Clams Sea Urchin
Oysters
ORDOVICIAN
• After experimentation, you get diversification
• Famous example: Ordovician Diversification
• Some things go away forever
Velvet
• Forms that made it and succeeded branch out worms?
Bugs
Lobsters
Crabs
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PROGRESSIVE ROCK
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METAL
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PUNK
• Started as a term associated with garage rock
• Became genre of rough, basic, DIY, antiestablishment music
• Reactionary to the heavy, overproduced sounds in rock
• Bands like The Stooges, Velvet Underground, Modern Lovers start
• Gained success with the Clash, Sex Pistols, the Ramones
• Maintained underground following, peaking with pop punk in 90s
The Ramones- The Clash- Green Day-
Blitzkrieg Bop London Welcome to
Velvet Calling Paradise
Sex Pistols-
Underground-
God Save the NOFX-
I’m Waiting for
Queen Linoleum
the Man
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ALTERNATIVE
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No Doubt-
Spiderwebs
SKA
Sublime-
Santeria
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ELECTRONIC
MUSIC/
ELECTRONICA
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EDM
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DISCO
Stayin’ Disco
Alive Inferno
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FUNK
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HIP HOP/RAP
DJ Kool Herc discusses early techniques
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Boogie Woogie
Ragtime
Tin Pan
Alley Barbershop
Time
Classical Minstrels
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Boogie Woogie
Ragtime
Tin Pan
Alley Barbershop
Time
Classical Minstrels
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