Due Monday 2/15/2010 before class
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HOMEWORK 3
Terms to know Chapters 4 and 5
1. acoustic recording
2. amplifier
3. brass section
4. electric recording
5. microphone
6. riff
7. scat singing
8. stride piano
9. string section
10. vibrato
11. wind section
12. jazz
13. collective improvisation
14. Fats Waller (from class notes)
15. Louis Armstrong (from class notes)
16. George Gershwin
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HOMEWORK 4
Due Monday April 12, 2010
Louis Armstrong Homework from movie Satchmo
You can review on youtube
YouTube Video Channel for American Pop
1. When was Louis Armstrong Born?
2. As a youth, why was he placed in the Colored Waifs Home?
3. How many times was he married?
4. What 1964 hit song surpassed the Beatles on the charts?
5. What was the name of the song where he first performed scat singing on record?
6. Why was he arrested as an adult in California?
7. What was the song by Fats Waller that helped to launch his carreer?
8. What song by Fats Waller did he establish as a protest song?
9. Why was the government monitoring him in his later years?
10. What cartoon did he appear in?
11. What were his nicknames? (there were two)
12. What product did he endorse and what did it do?
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1. electric blues
2. jump band
3. lead guitar
4. rhythm and blues
5. rocakabilly
6. rock and roll
7. Elvis
8. Jerry Lee Lewis
9. Chuck Berry
10. Little Richard
Terms to know Chapter 10
1. a capella
2. gospel
3. Hammond organ (from class notes)
4. concept album
5. feedback
6. hook
7. melisma
8. mixing
9. Motown
10. multitrack recording
11. power chord
12. Woodstock (from class notes)
13. Janis Joplin
14. Jim Morrison
15. Jimi Hendrix
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Fall 2010
TEST 3
WENDESDAY 12/1/2010 OVER CHAPTERS 9 and 10
WENDESDAY 11/3/2010 OVER CHAPTERS 4, 5, AND THE MOVIE SATCHMO
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Chapters 9 and 10
TEST 2
HOMEWORK 4 Due Monday 11/8/2010 ON PAPER!
Terms to know
1. electric blues
2. jump band
3. lead guitar
4. rhythm and blues
5. rocakabilly
6. rock and roll
7. Elvis
8. Jerry Lee Lewis
9. Chuck Berry
10. Little Richard
Terms to know Chapter 10
1. a capella
2. gospel
3. Hammond organ (from class notes)
4. concept album
5. feedback
6. hook
7. melisma
8. mixing
9. Motown
10. multitrack recording
11. power chord
12. Woodstock (from class notes)
13. Janis Joplin
14. Jim Morrison
15. Jimi Hendrix
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TEST 2
WENDESDAY 11/3/2010 OVER CHAPERS 4, 5, AND THE MOVIE SATCHMO
TEST 1
WENDESDAY 10/6/2010 OVER CHAPERS 1, 2, AND 3
HOMEWORK 1 AND 2.
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HOMEWORK 3 Due Monday 10/11/2010 ON PAPER!
Terms to know
Chapters 4 and 5
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Due to Blackboard problems Tuesday night, Homework due date is Friday 9-3-2010
Homework email
10 AM Class ONLY: odnealpop1@gmail.com
11:30 AM Class ONLY: odnealpop2@gmail.com
1. 12-bar blues form: Poetic, Melodic, Harmonic, and Rhythmic (from class notes)
2. accent
3. bar
4. beat
5. classical music
6. cross-pollination
7. folk music
8. genre
9. lieder
10. sheet music
11. syncopation
12. tempo
13. timbre
The Elements of popular music
14. instrumentation
15. dynamics
16. melody
17. harmony
18. texture
19. form
20. rhythm
21. Define popular music based on class discussions
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