Exploration of Music Exam #1

Who is known for creating the first electric guitar? And what was is called?

George Beauchamp (1899 - 1941)

(1932) Guitar was known as the “frying pan”

Who was Slash?

-His real name is Saul Hudson

-His stage name was given to him as a kid because he was always moving fast.

-He grew up in England and started playing when he was 15.

What band was Slash a part of? And what did he do in that band? Who was the lead singer?

-He was a part of Gun's & Roses

-He played the guitar

-Axil Rose was the lead singer

-He played a Gibson Less Paul

What is a humbucker pickup? And what does it do?

-It is a pickup that has two coils, two wires wrapped in opposite polarity in order to turn the strings vibrations into sound. One in is on the neck & one is on the bridge.

-It cancels out the unwanted hum.

What are the three rock bands formed by brothers?

1) Van Halen

2) AC/DC

3) Stryper

Who are the Van Halen brothers?

Eddie & Alex Van Halen.

-Born in Holland in the Netherlands.

-1962, immigrated to California.

-They started on the piano, winning lots of competitions.

What instruments did the Van Halen brothers play?

Eddie started on the drums & Alex started on the guitar.

-But then they switched.

Eddie on guitar & Alex on the drums.

-Eddie was self taught- Considered a guitar hero.

What was special about Van Halen's first album?

-1978, No one had heard the guitar played like that before.

Who was Van Halen's lead singer?

David Lee Roth- his signature move was jumping high during performances.

After him was Sammy Hagar

What guitar did Eddie Van Halen make? Why? And what made it special?

-The Frankenstrat

-He wanted the elements of two different guitars and said he needed both to improve the band.

-He combined the humbucker pick-up from the Less Paul with the Vibrato bar from the Fender Stratocaster.

What was the name of Eddie Van Halen's second guitar?

The 5150 "code for crazy"- he had someone professionally made a guitar with all of the features from the Frankenstrat.

What technique was Eddie Van Halen known for in his playing?

Finger tapping where he tapped the strings on the neck with his right hand.

What was Eddie Van Halen featured on?

The Jimmy Kimmel Live Show

Who was Eddie Van Halen's son?

Wolfgang

-Got to go on 3 tours with his father

Who was Joe Bonamassa?

-A Electric guitarist and singer

-Started playing when he was 4

-At 7 he was better than his dad

-Started his own band when he was 12, Smokin' Joe Bonamassa

Who noticed Joe Bonamassa at a young age? What did Joe Bonamassa do for this man?

B.B. King

-Joe opened for 20 shows for BB King at the age of 12.

What was unique about Joe Bonamassa?

-He collected ventage guitars and amps.

-He had three houses full of his collections

-About 400 guitars

-All of his houses were named Nerdville

Who started AC/DC?

-The Young brothers

Who were the Young brothers?

-Malcom & Angus

-From Australia

Who did what for AC/DC

-Malcom plays rhythm guitar

-Angus plays lead guitar

-Brian Johnson is lead singer

-their first lead singer, Mr. Scott, died from drinking and drugs

What music style became popular in the 80's?

Heavy Metal Rock

Who founded the band Stryper?

Michael & Robert Sweet from California

What was the Sweet brothers first band?

-Roxx Regime

-Not a Christian band

-Played on Sunset strip at places like Gazzarri's, Roxy, Whiskey and go go, etc.

Why did the brothers change the name of there band to Stryper?

-They were confronted by a friend about how they were proclaiming to be Christians but not playing Christian music.

-So they changed their name and dedicated their music to Christ.

-Isaiah 53:5 was their thyme verse.

Who was in the line up for Stryper?

Tim Gains- Bass

Michael Sweet- Lead singer & guitar

Robert Sweet- Drums

Oz Fox- Lead guitar

What was special about Stryper?

They were the first Christian metal rock band. And they did it was a really talented band.

What was Stryper's first album?

-The yellow and Black attack (w/ first song "Loud N' Clear")

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What did Stryper do in the middle of their concerts?

-They would throw bibles at the crowd

Woh did we learn that Stryper opened for?

-Anthrax

What were some of Stryper's other songs that we listened to?

-1985-Soldiers under command

-More then a Man

-King of Kings

-Let him in

-Do unto others

-Let there be light

-Yahweh

What was Stryper the first to do on MeTV?

First band to have 3 number 1 songs in a row.

-Calling on you= #1 requested song on the show

What event cause Stryper to disband a year later?

Michael left the band

What did the band members of Stryper go on to do?

*Oz-became a forklift operator, married a former prostitute has a ministry called Hookers for Jesus.

*Michael- got married and had two kides, they moved to Massachusetts and worked in a campground & cranberry farm.

What were the two Stryper periods?

-The first was the period of time before they disbanded in 1992, they had 5 albums in this period.

-The second was the time period from 2004 when the band regrouped to the present.

Who was Strypers original bass player, and who replaced him?

Tim Gains and he was replaced by Perry Richardson

What is Skillet?

A rock band with John Cooper, his wife Korey Cooper, Seth Morison, and Jen Ledger

What is Narnia?

-One of the few rock bands with a keyboard

-Listened to 3 songs:

MNFST

A Crack in the Sky

The Great Disappearance

What was Petra?

-Another christian heavy metal rock band

Who was the main electric guitarist?

Bob Hartman

Who was John Schlitt?

The lead singer for Head East, who became the lead singer for Petra after becoming a christian and quitting Head East.

What songs did we listen to by Petra?

-Clean

-Adoni

Both from their reunion tour.

Album "Beyond Belief"

Who is John Williams?

A conductor

Composer

Played the piano

What type of music was John Williams known for?

The cinema, writing music for movies

Which 2 movie producers did John Williams work with a lot?

George Lucus and Steven Spielburg

What was the first movie that John Williams worked on?

Fiddler on the roof

What was John Williams first movie with Steven Spielburg?

The sugarland express

What was credited the first summer block buster?

Jaws

-Music was by John Williams

First movie with George Lucus?

Star Wars

What were some of the other movies that we talked about done by John Williams?

All the Indiana Jones

E.T

Empire of the sun

Home alone

Hook

Far & Away

Jurassic Park

saving private ryan

the patriot

harry potter

Lists of movies by John Williams continued...

minority report

catch me if you can

war of the worlds

tin tin

war horse

lincoln

the book theif

BFG

the post

the fablemans

What world war 2 movie did we talk about that was also done by John Williams?

Th e Schindler's List

Made about Oscar Schindler

We talked about the holocaust and Nazi

What was the earliest known discovery of musical ACTIVITY?

ca. 18000 BC when instruments were constructed out of woolly mammoth tusks/bones.

What was the earliest known piece of notated music?

-The fabric/tablet found in a ancient royal palace in Ugarit, Syria.

-It was inscribed with Cuneiform writing, and contained text to Hurrian hymn to Nikkal, dated back to the 1400 B.C.

How does sound work?

sound begins as a vibration, the vibrations are transmitted to are ears by a medium such as air, our ear drums start to vibrate, and then impulse/signals are sent to our brain, there the signals are selected, organized, and interpreted.

what are the 4 main properties of musical sound by which we distinguish music from other sounds?

1. Pitch

2. Dynamics

3. Tone color

4. Duration

what is pitch?

relative highness or lowness we hear in a sound

How is pitch determined?

by frequency of vibrations, the faster the higher the pitch, the slower the lower the pitch.

-Vibration is measured in cycles per second.

what is a tone?

a definite pitch that has a specific frequency such as 440 cycles per second.

What are dynamics?

Degrees of loudness or softness in music

what is tone color?

the quality of sound that distinguishes one instrument from another/ when music is described as bright, dark, mellow, rich, etc.

why did we listen to the Firebird?

the second and final scene of the firebird, Igor Stravinsky repeats one melody over and over, creating variety through changes in dynamics, tone color, and rhythm.

throughout history, what has been the most widespread and familiar way of making music?

Singing.

what are the singing ranges for the voices of women and men?

Women: soprano and alto

Men: Tenor, baritone, and bass.

what is an instrument?

any mechanism (other than voice) that produces musical sounds

what are the 6 categories or instruments?

Strings

woodwind

brass

percussion

keyboard

Electronic

what are the 4 string instruments?

violin, viola, cello, double bass

what are woodwind instruments?

instruments that produce vibrations of air within a tube that was traditionally made of wood

what are the 4 families of woodwind?

Flute family, Clarinet family, Oboe family, Bassoon family.

What are the main instruments in the brass section?

Trumpet, French horn, trombone, tuba.

what are the two groups of percussion instruments?

Definite and indefinite pitch

what are the 3 definite pitch instruments?

timpani

xylophone

cowbell

what are the 3 indefinite pitch instruments?

snare drum

bass drum

cymbals

what are the keyboard instruments?

Piano, harpsichord, accordion, organ

How does a piano produce sound?

press keys and felt tipped hammers strike the strings inside the damper stops the sound when the key is no longer being pressed.

what is different about a harpsicord?

the strings are plucked when you hit a key.

what is special about a pipe organ?

it has many sets of pipes controlled by several keyboards, including one for you feet. the keys control valves from which air is blown across or through. the larger the organ the more tone colors are available.

Rhythm?

rhythm is basic to life, it also forms the lifeblood of music, it is the flow of music through time.

what is a beat?

regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time. they can be represented by markes on a time line.

What is meter?

organization of beats into regular groups

what are the three types of meters?

duple meter: 2 beats

quadruple meter: 4 beats

triple meter: 3 beats

what is a downbeat?

The first, or stressed, beat of the measure

what is and accent?

Emphasis on a particular beat, normally by playing it louder than the surrounding notes.

What is syncopation?

A rhythm that stresses unusual parts of the pulse

what is tempo?

the speed of the beat,

tempo indication?

Words, usually at the beginning of a piece of music and often in Italian, which specify the pace at which the music should be played

What is a note?

a musical symbol denoting pitch and duratione

what is a staff?

A set of 5 lines and 4 spaces upon which we write music

what is a melody?

a series of single notes which add up to a recognizable whole

what is a sequence?

repetition of a melodic pattern at a higher or lower pitch

What is harmony?

the way chords are constructed and how they follow each other

what is a chord?

combination of three or more tones sounded at once

What is scale?

the basic pitches of a piece of music arranged in order from low to high or from high to low.

what is a chromatic scale?

It is when the twelve different pitches are arranged in ascending order, white and black keys.

What is musical texture?

the way different melodic lines and sounds interact or blend with one another

monophonic texture

single melodic line without accompaniment

polyphonic texture

performance of two or more melodic lines of relatively equal interest at the same time

homophonic texture

one main melody accompanied by chords