MUSIC 10 - Q2

early 16th century to the late 19th century

Slaves from the continent of Africa were brought to the Americas from the early ___ to ___.

African

The slaves came from different ___ indigenous groups, and they brought with them their music and instruments.

Music

This became their expression amidst the hardships of work. It was one way by which they could lighten the pain of being slaves, work with each other effectively, and communicate with each other creatively and secretly.

banshaw

The African slaves brought them the ___ in the 17th century.

Banjo

The banshaw is known today as ___.

drums and percussion

In America, the slaves created this instruments, which they used to accompany their singing

Holler songs or Work songs

The music that developed while working on plantations in the southern region was called _____ or _____.

call and response

The work songs followed a "___" sequence, which is similar to antiphonal singing used in sacred music

secular

These work songs were ___ in nature and expressed the hardship of the slaves and their hopes for a better future.

Negro Spirituals

These songs expressed the hardships of the slaves and their longing for freedom (both spiritual and physical), for safety, and relief as they perform difficult tasks.

biblical

Negro spirituals as we call them today, use ___ metaphors to experience enslavement. These songs also serve to give hope that eventually, life may improve for them. 

Ragtime

Syncopation referred to the piano music that we call today ___.

Syncopation

It was done on instruments as they were used eventually.

Black musicians

They, during the 19th century would call syncopated rhythms as a way of "ragging" a tune.

Scott Joplin

___ composed the Maple Leaf Rag around 1899, which became one of the first ragtime hits.

Maple Leaf Rag

Scott Joplin composed the ___ around 1899, which became one of the first ragtime hits.

1899

Scott Joplin composed the Maple Leaf Rag around ___, which became one of the first ragtime hits.

Blues

The simplest musical genre that evolved from the music of black or African Americans. It requires flexibility and a high level of improvisation in their performance. 

New Orleans

Jazz began in ___ during the late 19th century.

late 19th century

Jazz began in New Orleans during the ___.

Jazz

The most creative and complex genre of music America has produced. It is very dynamic, as if constantly evolves and develops into new subgenres.

composer

In jazz music, the performer becomes the ___ as his or her musical spontaneity creates an entirely unique experience, even if the piece has been played several times by different musicians

Dixieland

It is the combination of the traditions of blues, ragtime, and brass band, thus it often played on a band with trumpet comet trombone, clarinet. saxophone, banjo, piano, string bass, and drums.

1920s

Dixieland started in the early ___ in New Orleans.

Louis Armstrong; Jelly Roll Morton

Two of the most prominent Dixieland performers are jazz trumpet ___and pianist ___.

Big Band

It specialized in swing music, a highly danceable music type.

10

Big Band is composed of __ or more players with basically the same instrument as that of Dixieland.

1920s

Big Band is another Jazz subgenre that saw its rise in the ___.

Bepop

It is characterized by complex melodies and chord progressions, unlike big band music, this is not suitable for dancing. Subgenres followed: boogie-woogie, rock, disco, rap, and techno.

four to six

Bepop is a s relatively a small group, as compared to the big bands of the 1920s, with just ___to___ musicians.

Latin American music

___ has its roots from their forefathers.

ceremonies and rituals

Music was used for ___.

arieto

It is a music and dance ceremony done in Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.

Guiro; Mayohuacan

The arieto includes chants in call and response accompanied by the idiophone scraper ___ and the idiophone siit drum ___.

syncretic

Latin American music encompasses a wide variety of styles due to its ___ nature (combination of different beliefs or practices),

Cumbia

It has a "windup motion” as its basic character and is performed in a circular motion.

ball chain

“sleepy leg”, a cumbia mimics the walking motion of slaves with a ___ attached to one leg.

Alberto Perez

The "sleepy leg" step, often used as a part of a Zumba dance fitness routine, originally was created by ___, a Colombian himself. 

Tango

Which originated from Argentina, is an interpretative, sensitive, and improvisational social dance that allows its dancers to connect themselves to the music. their partners, and their surroundings. 

Salon tango

It is done in big places and Its movement would require.

Milonguero Tango

It is an intimately danced version usually performed in small places such as cafes and crowded dance floors.

Cha Cha

Its music is characterized by a strong downbeat with lesser syncopation, which became popular with dancers during that time.

Enrique Jorrin

Cha Cha’s music is said to have originated from composer __, in the 1950s, while being a performer of the Orquestra America.

Rumba

It is said to have originated as a sex pantomime, exaggerated and aggressive hip and body movements of the male dancer became integrated into it. Accompanying music instruments include idiophones, maracas, claves, and drums. 

Havan and Matanzas

Rumba begun in the second half of the 19th century, when Afro-Cuban workers in ___ and ___ in Cuba began to develop a new style that we now refer to as Rumba. 

Bossa Nova

Roughly translated means "new beat".

Brazil

Bossa Nova originated in ___ during the 1950s

"Chega de soudade"

Antonio Carlos Jobim together with lyricist Vinicius de Moraes and singer João Gilberto recorded ___ in 1958. 

Gel from Ipanema

___, also a composition by Jobim, is regarded as one of the most popular songs in the Bossa Nova genie.

Reggae

If a based on earlier Jamaican music from the Ska and is performed by drums doing a heavy rhythm pattern, bass guitar electric guitar and scraper.

Jamaica

Reggae originated from ___ in the 1960 and is one of today's popular music genre.

ghetto life

Reggae expresses the sounds of ___and was the music of the gangster culture.

Bob Marley

He achieved international fame with his reggae .

Foxtrot

It is a smooth dance with long walking movements. It is a set of dance with music in quadruple time (with the first and third beat heavily accented).

Harry Fox

Foxtrot is a dance that originated from New York in the United State, was introduced by ___.

Fox's trot

Harry Fox was doing the trotting steps set to ragtime music, and the audience from then on referred to his performance as ___.

Paso Doble

It is a genre of light Spanish music set to binary rhythm and is believed to be set to 16th-century Spanish dances. 

double step

Paso Doble is a Spanish term that means ___.

Popular Music or pop music

It is defined as "any commercially oriented music principally intended to be received and appreciated by a wide audience of literate technology advanced societies dominated by urban culture". 

Ballad

It may also talk of any aspect of popular culture and the day-to-day life of a person, it is usually with a slow tempo, the treatment of which would differ, depending on whether it is pop, rock, or alternative. 

Standard

Are those that were recorded before the rock and roll years, but in general terms, any piece of pop music, which has become part of mainstream pop culture, may be considered as this.

1940s and 1950s

What is the period of Standard Music in US? It is during the time of Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, and Ella Fitzgerald.

Original Pilipino Music (OPM)

In the Philippines, we have the ___ Standard, with singers and groups such as Freddie Agullar, Sharon Cuneta, Celeste Legaspi, and APO Hiking Society. 

Rock and Roll

It is described on a combination of country music and rhythm and blues (RnB). It is characterized by electronically ampilled instrumentation, heavily accented beats, and simple phrases structure.

William Allen

___ of WLAC radio station in Nashville Tennessee created a program, “Rock and Roll Radio” where hard rhythm and blues were played.

Elvis Presley

He is the father or Rock and Roll. He entered the entertainment scene, eventually epitomizing American rock and roll.

Disco

It is a dance genre of popular music. It a characterized by syncopated electric bass lines and the use of synthesizers, string section, horns, electric pianos, and guitars would add a smooth layer to its overall timbre.

Alternative Music

It is a genre of popular music that began with the underground independent music scene of the 1980s, eventually hitting the mainstream in the 1990s. 

alternative

The word ___ makes it distinct from the music genre in terms of sounds, social context, and historical roots: bands such as R.EM. and Nirvana represent the genre of alternative music.

Lyrics

Alternative Music is characterized by the extensive use of guitars, power chords riffs, and effects. ___ used in songs would talk about racial concerns such as depression, suicide, and drugs.