Yr 10 GCSE Music.

From our online session on Jazz on Thursday 11th June you will : Each student will be assigned a section of Jazz to research and feedback on, in our next online session- YOU are the teachers!

Thursday 18th June 3-4pm

This can be a spoken presentation or a power point for you to show.

 Courtney – Blues

 Callie – Ragtime

 Verity – Swing

 Elimay – Bepop

 Faith – Cool

 Free Form- Alfred

 Fussion – Imogen

 Progressive – Anna Wolanska

 Contemporary – Andreea  Deadline : online session Thursday 18th June. Jazz Where did Jazz come from? Styles of Jazz The Twenties are often called the Jazz Age because the popularization of Jazz music had an enormous cultural effect. Jazz music was important because it influenced fashion, The dances, accepted moral standards, youth influence of culture, and race relations

Jazz in After the war, women wanted to be seen as individuals outside of their traditional familial Society roles as wives and daughters. Jazz provided them with an outlet. Jazz also provided jobs for women in the music industry and allowed social acceptance of female musicians. Scott Joplin. The entertainer 1902 Jazz videos – listen and consider the Michael bubble – Call https://www.youtube. me irresponsible. com/watch?v=oj_eUU difference Vocal traditional pop aWBu0&list=RDoj_eUU 1962 aWBu0&index=1 between the three pieces

Louie Armstrong When the saints go marching in – New Orleans Jazz 1938 The ragtime style has musical elements, such as syncopation, that are part of the jazz style, and ragtime is said to have evolved from marches, and also from the blues-influenced “cakewalk” dance of the early minstrel shows of the late 1800s. ... Blues can have a country or folk element that isn't so prominent in jazz.

It has often been said that ragtime is primarily a vehicle for solo What's the piano, while Dixieland is oriented toward group playing. Certainly much of ragtime is rendered as piano solos, while Dixieland is most difference? commonly found in band performances.

Dixieland, sometimes referred to as hot jazz or traditional jazz, is a style of jazz based on the music that developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century What influenced Jazz?

African music (via the Slave Trade) European music (particularly post-Civil War marching bands)  Rhythmic devices

 Swing quavers • Band instruments such as  Cross rhythms • Brass (trumpet, trombone, tuba)  polyrhythms • Woodwind (clarinet, saxophone)  Syncopation • Percussion (bass drum, cymbals, snare drum)  Rhythmic displacement • Chord progressions using triads and sevenths  Pentatonic/blues scales, like C Eb F (F#) G A Bb C • Structure – balanced 4/8-bar phrases in (typically) a 32-  Blue notes – flattened 3rds, 5ths, 7ths  Improvisation bar form AABA, with trio  Call-and-response Jazz chords are shapes that use at least 4 notes in their construction. These are chords that go beyond There are typical chords in jazz music that the 3-note triad and include the are called ‘added chords’ – some extra notes can be added to the normal chords 7th, 9th, 11th, and/or 13th. If you want to play a major chord in rock, you would normally just play the major triad, G for example. E.g. C chord – CEG → add the 6th note of the scale = A Jazz Chords

Therefore, a C jazz chord = CEGA

This is known as a C6 chord (the 6th note of the scale is added to your chord) Jelly Roll Morton’s piano roll (created 1924) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LSPc3iyZAw Jelly Roll Blues (1915)- ragtime The first published jazz composition

 INSTRUMENTATION: Piano solo  TEXTURE: Melody-dominated homophony  HARMONY/TONALITY: starts in Bb major and ends in Eb major - mainly diatonic chords, with some sevenths  MELODY: use of major scale with some blue notes (as opposed to a blues scale)  RHYTHM: lots of syncopation; triplets; swing rhythms notated as dotted rhythms (but played by the composer on his piano roll more like swing rhythms)  STRUCTURE: 4-bar intro, 3 different 12-bar blues melodies with some chord substitutions (each melody repeated), trio (with 4-bar intro) – another 12-bar blues melody, this time in subdominant of Eb major The Original Dixieland Jazz Band: Livery Stable Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WojNaU4-kI Livery Stable Blues (1917) The first jazz recording- Dixieland Jazz

 INSTRUMENTATION  Nick LaRocca — cornet

 Eddie Edwards — trombone  Larry Shields — clarinet  Henry Ragas — piano

 Tony Spargo — drums  STRUCTURE:  Three themes (ABC) based on the 12-bar blues

 4-bar intro AAA BBB CCC-1-bar ending  TEXTURE: homophony/polyphony (collective improvisiaion Glenn Miller: American Patrol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK-lBi5r6Jk Glenn Miller: American Patrol 1942- Swing  Courtney – Blues Online work this week  Callie – Ragtime  Verity – Swing

Each student will be assigned  Elimay – Bepop a section of Jazz to research and feedback on, in our next  Faith – Cool online session- YOU are the teachers!  Free Form- Alfred

Thursday 18th June 3-4pm  Fussion – Imogen

 Progressive – Anna Wolanska This can be a spoken presentation or a powerpoint  Contemporary – Andreea for you to show.