Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for two) (1892)

Who wrote Daisy Bell?

Harry Dacre

What is Harry Dacre’s pen name?

Frank Dean

Where was Harry Dacre from?

England

Where did Harry Dacre arrive in the U.S.?

New york

What reportedly inspired Harry Dacre to write Daisy Bell?

He had to pay import taxes on his bicycle, and a friend joked that he would have paid twice as much, if it was a tandem bike.

What does one scholar think the actual inspo for Daisy Bell was?

One of Dacre’s other songs about a donkey-cart built for 2, that he change to bicycle, when he realised donkeys werent common in the U.S.

One scholar thinks the bike in Daisy Bell was initially a…?

donkey-cart built for 2

Who turned Daisy Bell into a huge hit?

Katie Lawrence in 1892

Which vocalist enjoyed success in London with Sarah or A Donkey Cart Built For Two?

Kate Carney

What song led to vocalist Kate Carney’s success?

Sarah or A Donkey Cart Built For Two

What 2 songs may be considered to be satire of Daisy Bell?

Sarah or A Donkey Cart Built For Two and Weird Al

What song is unclear about whether it was Dacre’s original or a later parody of “Daisy Bell”?

Sarah or A Donkey Cart Built For Two

Who created “Weird Al”?

Yankovic

Yankovic recorded a version of “Daisy Bell” to support what?

Music education in disadvantaged schools

What song form is “Daisy Bell” constructed in?

verse-chorus

How many years after “Daisy Bell” fell out of fashion, did it experience a revival?

70 years later

What organization used “Daisy Bell” to test their speech synthesizing computer?

Bell Laboratories

Where is Bell Laboratories located?

Murray Hill, New Jersey

When was speech synthesized for the first time>

1961

What computer was used to synthesize speech for the first time?

the IBM 704 computer

What part of the song did researchers use in their speech synthesis?

The chorus melody

What else did researchers create in addition to the synthesized speech of “Daisy Bell’s” chorus?

An electronic accompaniment

What writer was visiting Bell Labs when the experiment took place?

Arthur C. Clark

What film was inspired by Arthur C. Clark’s experience at Bell Labs?

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Who worked on 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)?

Arthur C. Clark

What is the name of the malfunctioning computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)?

HAL 9000

Who taught HAL 9000 Daisy?

Mr. Langley

What lyric does the HAL 9000 open with?

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do

Who is the astronaut in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)?

Dave Bowman

Who created an arrangement of Daisy Bell in 2016?

Hiroshi Tamawari

How does Tamawari open Daisy Bell?

With a wordless chorus melody, using the timbre of the IBM 704, with monophony

Bc Tamawari didn’t have an IBM 704, what device did he sue to mimic its sound?

A “chipspeech” software

In the second line of the chorus, Tamawari places pulse on which beats?

beats two and three

What other “non-human voices” does Tamawari use?

A vocorder and a Cyber Dive

What does the first verse of “Daisy Bell” feature? (first verse, not line)

A duet of the Cyber Diva and Vocorder

In the first verse of “Daisy Bell”, which instrument is most prominent?

The vocorder

What is a vocorder?

A device that compresses and synthesizes the voice of a human being

What is the Vocaloid4 Cyber Diva?

Virtual singing software

What invented the vocorder?

Bell labs in 1937

How many years newer was the vocorder used in Daisy Bell, than the IBM of the past?

50 years newer

Which instrument quietly doubles the vocoders melody?

The Cyber Diva

What instrument is always used in Tamawari’s chorus?

The IBM 704

What instrument plays in the first chorus? (After the intro 1:39)

The IBM 704 alone

What instrument(s) plays in the second chorus? (2:41)

The IBM 704 and Cyber Diva

What did Tamawari engineer the Cyber Diva to sound like in the chorus at 2:41?

Mechanical

What is another name for the Cyber Diva?

Vocaloid

What does the final chorus of “Daisy Bell” feature?

The IBM 704 singing the melody and the Cyber Diva singing the harmony

How does Tamawari’s “Daisy Bell” end?

With a fermata as the steady beat stops

In Verse 2, what instrument sings alone?

The cyber Diva

In verse 2, what syllable has vibrato?

The final word, “Bell”

In verse 3, the Cyber Diva is programed to sound more what?

Human-like again

What quality does Tamawari used to make voice more human?

Melismatic Text Setting (Melisma)

Most of the text in “Daisy Bell” is…?

Set syllabically

What does it mean to be set syllabically?

There is one note per syllable

Pop culture often used the word “Melisma” to refer to what?

vocal embellishments

In this resource, a melisma will also be applied to?

Note groups that are more than syllables