Exam 1 songs

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair

Stephen Foster | 1854 (1850s) | Parlor song | Listen for: gentle, nostalgic ballad; trained solo voice with simple piano; strophic

Southern Rag Medley No. 2

"Blind" Boone | 1909 (1900s) | Ragtime | Listen for: solo piano; syncopated right-hand melody over oom-pah march bass

St. Louis Blues

W.C. Handy | 1914 (1910s) | Classic blues | Listen for: Bessie Smith's powerful vocal with Louis Armstrong's cornet answering; aab lyrics, 12-bar sections

Basin Street Blues

Louis Armstrong | 1926, released 1928 (1920s) | Jazz | Listen for: Armstrong's trumpet solo and gravelly/scat vocals; improvisation, syncopation

The Peanut Vendor

Don Azpiazú | 1930 (1930s) | Latin jazz | Listen for: claves and Latin percussion; son rhythm; vocal like a street vendor's sales pitch

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin | 1930 (1930s) | Broadway/Tin Pan Alley | Listen for: Gershwin at the piano; AABA 32-bar form; the 'rhythm changes' used in contrafacts

Cross Road Blues

Robert Johnson | 1936 (1930s) | Country blues | Listen for: solo voice and bottleneck slide guitar; raw, free-timed Delta sound; aab lyrics

The Great Speckled Bird

Roy Acuff | released 1936 (1930s) | 'Hillbilly' / country western | Listen for: fiddle and string band; plain, earnest vocal; hymn-like gospel melody

In the Mood

Glenn Miller | 1938, released 1939 (1930s) | Swing | Listen for: repeated sax-section riff; tight big-band arrangement; fake-out fade before the loud ending

St. James Infirmary

Cab Calloway | 1928, released 1943 | Big band | Listen for: slow, minor-key lament; Calloway's dramatic vocal backed by a full band