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Worlds of Music Chapter 4

Terms in this set (23)

hymn
A song of praise to God
melismatically
the singing of a single syllable of text while moving between several different notes in succession
lining out
A form of call-and-response in psalm or hymn singing A leader speaks or chants the first line of the verse, and the congregation repeats the line, to a different tune
stanzas
A song form in which successive verses are set to the same melody Sometimes the words stanza and verse are used interchangeably A more technical term is strophe
deacons' devotional
A period before the service proper, in which the early congregants gather for traditional worship activities in song and prayer Church deacons lead Dr Watts hymns, lining them out; and in which deacons chant (whoop) prayers
gospel songs
A song that focuses on the Christian life Usually more lively than a hymn
whooping
African-American name for the preacher's traditional half-chanted, half-sung sermon delivery
work song
African-American song genre in oral tradition, used to accompany work and make the time pass more pleasantly and/or to pace and coordinate the work itself
field hollers
A type of African-American work song in free or flexible rhythm that a worker would sing by himself, without accompanying, in a place such as a cotton field Field hollers are one of the ancestors of blues
improvisations
The art of making music spontaneously; composing at the moment of performance rather than in advance of performance
blues revival
The period roughly between 1959 and 1971 when blues gained a large audience among young white people in Europe and North America A second blues revival took place from the late 1980s through the late 1990s
Ann Arbor (Michigan) Blues Festivals
The first major festival in the USA devoted entirely to blues; it began in 1969 and attracted more than ten thousand fans annually for the first few years Attendance fell off drastically in the early 1970s as the blues revival waned
three-line stanza
One form of a blues verse (stanza) in which the first line is repeated and then the third line closes out the thought with a rhyme, usually spread over twelve bars (measures) of music Compare quatrain-refrain stanza
quatrain-refrain stanza
One form of a blues verse (stanza) in which a four-line quatrain is followed by a two-line refrain, usually spread over twelve bars (measures) of music Compare three-line stanza
mistreatment
The chief theme of blues lyrics, when one person (usually a lover) treats another badly or unjustly
riffs
An accompanying rhythmic/melodic phrase that is repeated at various times throughout a performance.
downhome blues
Early blues, chiefly sung by men accompanying themselves on acoustic guitar Sometimes called country blues even though the music was sung and played in cities and by people who grew up there
Delta blues
Downhome blues (q v ) from the Mississippi River Delta, often regarded as the deepest or most profound downhome blues Pioneers included Charley Patton, Son House, and Robert Johnson
urban blues
Later blues, closest to rhythm n' blues than any other form of blues, which arose after World War II Electric instruments, a saxophone or horn section, and single-string, lead guitar work characterize this music T-Bone Walker and B B King were its early stars
Chicago blues
While Chicago was an important blues city ever since the 1920s, Chicago blues refers to a sound of blues that arose among out-migrated Mississippi musicians living in Chicago just after World War II Pioneers of this sound were Muddy Waters, Little Walter, and Howlin' Wolf
soul music
The most popular African-American music in the 1960s, recorded for companies like Stax-Volt and Atlantic, featuring singers such as James Brown, Aretha Franklin, and Otis Redding
source musicians
An elder musician thought to be authentic by virtue of participation in the music-culture during its golden age, rather than its present-day revival
roots music
Musical genres such as blues, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, hillbilly, bluegrass, polka, klezmer, that are either identified as source musics that contributed to mainstream popular musics such as rock, or as the musics of ethnic groups in the United States As a marketing term it has replaced folk music
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