2. AOS3: Popular Music in Context

3.  To learn about how jazz styles developed  To know the 12-bar blues sequence  To learn some specific jazz vocabulary

4.  African slave songs – from late 18 th century  Negro spirituals – 1850s  Call and response  Blues – late 19 th century  Slow and melancholy  12 bar blues  Blue notes  Syncopation  Ragtime – 1890s  Piano  Scott Joplin IIII IV II V II

5.  New Orleans Style / Dixieland – 1910s  Cornet, clarinet, trombone popular  Collective improvisation  12 bar blues sequence still common  Louis Armstrong  Big Band – 1920s  Swing Jazz – 1930s  Music for dancing  Glenn Miller  32 bar changes become more common

6.  Bebop – 1940s  Fast and very complicated, lots of improvisation  Heavy use of extended chords  Smaller groups; for listening not dancing  Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie  Cool Jazz – late 1940s  More understated and laid-back  Miles Davis!  Modal Jazz – 1950s  Uses modes for improvisation rather than changes

7. WhenStyleArtists C18-19Slave songs 1850sNegro spirituals Late C19BluesBessie Smith 1890sRagtimeScott Joplin 1910s New Orleans Jazz / Dixieland Louis Armstrong 1920sBig BandDuke Ellington 1930sSwing JazzGlenn Miller 1940sBebop Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie Late 1940sCool JazzMiles Davis 1950sModal JazzMiles Davis

8.  Call and Response  12 Bar Blues  Blue notes  Syncopation  Extended chords  Modes  Changes  Turnaround

9.  Listen to All Blues and answer these questions: 1. What is the solo instrument at 00’21”-00’53” and 01’03”-01’35”? 2. What is the difference in the sound of the solo instrument in those sections and from 01’46” onwards? 3. How many times do you hear the 12-bar blues changes between 01’46” and 03’51”? 4. What is the solo instrument at 04’01”? 5. How many times do you hear the 12-bar blues changes between 04’01”-06’04”? 6. What is the solo instrument at 06’15”? 7. How many times do you hear the 12-bar blues changes between 06’16”-08’17”? 8. What is the solo instrument at 08’27”? 9. How many times do you hear the 12-bar blues changes between 08’27”-09’28”? 10. What is the solo instrument at 09’38”?