Homework 2
Chapters 2 and 3

Terms to know : Chapter 2

Due Monday 2/15/2010 before class

1. Blackface
2. Bones
3. call-and-response
4. chorus
5. endman
6. interlocutor
7. march
8. minstrelsy
9. olio
10. sheet music
11. syncopated dance music
12. Tin Pan Alley
13. Vernacular
14. waltz song
15. Stephen Foster
Terms to know: Chapter 3

1. Blues
2. call and response
3. collective improvisation
4. country blues
5. fox trot
6. front line
7. hi-hat
8. improvisation
9. jazz
10. march
11. multisectional form
12. pentatonic scale
13. piano rag
14. race record
15. strain
16. Scott Joplin
17. John Philip Sousa
18. Robert Johnson

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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

Terms to know – Chapter 5

1. backbeat
2. ballad
3. big band swing
4. bridge
5. comping
6. crooner
7. hi-hat
8. scale
9. arpeggio
10. song interpreter
11. standard
12. swing
13. walking bass
14. jazz form (from class notes)
15. cool jazz (from class notes)
16. bop (from class notes)
17. Benny Goodman
18. Miles Davis

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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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HOMEWORK 5
Terms to know – Chapter 9

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
============================ Fall 2010 American Popular Music

San Jacinto College South
MUSI 1310 - American Popular Music

TEST 3

WENDESDAY 12/1/2010 OVER CHAPTERS 9 and 10


TEST 2

WENDESDAY 11/3/2010 OVER CHAPTERS 4, 5, AND THE MOVIE SATCHMO

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HOMEWORK 4
Due Monday 11/8/2010 ON PAPER! Terms to know –

Chapters 9 and 10


Terms to know – Chapter 9

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

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
Terms to know – Chapter 5

1. backbeat
2. ballad
3. big band swing
4. bridge
5. comping
6. crooner
7. hi-hat
8. scale
9. arpeggio
10. song interpreter
11. standard
12. swing
13. walking bass
14. jazz form (from class notes)
15. cool jazz (from class notes)
16. bop (from class notes)
17. Benny Goodman
18. Miles Davis

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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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Homework 2
Chapters 2 and 3

Terms to know : Chapter 2

1. Blackface
2. Bones
3. call-and-response
4. chorus
5. endman
6. interlocutor
7. march
8. minstrelsy
9. olio
10. sheet music
11. syncopated dance music
12. Tin Pan Alley
13. Vernacular
14. waltz song
15. Stephen Foster
Terms to know: Chapter 3

1. Blues
2. call and response
3. collective improvisation
4. country blues
5. fox trot
6. front line
7. hi-hat
8. improvisation
9. jazz
10. march
11. multisectional form
12. pentatonic scale
13. piano rag
14. race record
15. strain
16. Scott Joplin
17. John Philip Sousa
18. Robert Johnson