The Jazz Scene

Objective At the end of the class, students can  1)get the main idea of The Jazz Scene-- the history and development of early jazz  2)know some famous jazz musician  3)remember some useful expressions  4)aquire some culture knowledge of jazz music

The Outline  1.leading-in.leading-in  2. Introduction of The Jazz Scene (Text based)  a) origin of jazz  b) its development  c) present scene  3. Teaching Activities

____________ for the noble man _____________for the middle class white ____________ for the blacks classical music country music Jazz music

What is jazz?  about the name jazz For para2 1) a forgotten negro slang phrase: to jazz something 2) a famous black singer’ name

What is jazz?  Origin as a music form:  slaves from Africa strong sense of rhythm work song, song and hymns of white, sad For para3

Blues (-1860): sad,depressed, unhappy bitter-sweet, fixed musical pattern (12 bar)  W.C. Handy  B.B. King For para4

Jazz : blue, then brighten up  Early jazz: Minstrel Show with cornet, drum, etc  Jazz bands: players get together  for dances, marches and funeral  Character: rough and uncultured, peculiar style For para5

New Orleans Jazz  French territory, more freedom for the black; Creole  Tradition of “make merry” Prostitute is licensed  Center of wind instrument making, instrument  Famous musician Famous Mecca

trumpet, trombone, clarinet, saxophone piano, bass,drums

Uncle Satchelmo  Satchel + mouth  Hot Five, Hot Seven

Ragtime Ragtime (1890s-1920s): played by the white  Scott Joplin( the King of rag)--Maple leaf rag  Dixieland Jazz Band  (Dixie's land) For para8

Compound  Ragtime  rag + time (ragged time)  uneven in playing piano  Dixieland  dixie +land  Dixie: the southern states of USA  Dixie: the pot of soldiers

Swing (1930s Big Band era-)  Benny Goodman Sextet  for dance  unprepared character with big bands For para8

Early jazz  Primitive work song  Blues  Ragtime  New Orleans Jazz  swing Present scene (19) Ragtime New Orleans Standards Classic Dixieland Cool Jazz BigBand Swing Bop Latin Brazilian Jazz Avant-Garde Post-Bop(Mainstream) Jazz Third Stream Hard Bop Free Jazz Fusion Crossover Jazz Vocal Jazz

blues jazz ragtime swing (jazz) primitive work song To sum up Present scene

Check up: scan the text and fill in the blanks.  1).The primitive people have a very strong sense of___.  2).Blue means ___,___,and ___when describing one’s emotion.  3).The blues inspired early jazz musicians like Louis Armstrong. But unlike the blues, jazz music has more forms and is played on a greater variety of _______.  4).The music __ ___for there must also have been happy occasions.

 5).The colored people began to learn how to play ____ and players began to get together and jazz bands formed  6).Similar to jazz in many ways, the biggest difference of _____lies in the fact that most player were white.  7).Ragtime died and jazz reigned in its place, then came the _____-which attempted to take the ____character of jazz and to attach it to big bands and orchestrations.  8).Jazz now has arrived at 2 separate styles—the “____”advanced kind and the pop sort. Check up: scan the text and fill in the blanks.

Enriching Your Word Power (derivation)  interesting  convincing  unbroken  forgotten  fixed  steady  traditional  southern  unprepared  uncultured  colored  advanced  existence  variation  addition  plantation  follower  development Study the following words. then find out the prefixes and suffixes the words contain.

blues jazz ragtime swing (jazz) primitive work song Improve your spoken skill: talk with your deskmate about your favorite genre of the early jazz. Your dialogue should be based on the text.

Jazz in Asia Taibei, Wang Ruolin ( 迷宫 maze ）  Shanghai, Dongqin ( Japan, Lisa Ono

Pop jazz  Ragtime New Orleans Standards Classic Dixieland Cool Jazz BigBand Swing Bop Latin Brazilian Jazz Avant-Garde Post-Bop or Mainstream Jazz Third Stream Hard Bop Free Jazz Fusion Crossover Jazz Vocal Jazz

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