(JZM) Jazz Music Module Overview
Jazz Music Module Overview
Introduction
In this module students will learn how Jazz Music developed in the United States. They will also learn of the different styles of Jazz Music and be able to hear some of the most memorable music and artists.
Essential Questions
- How did Jazz Music begin the United States?
- What are the major styles of Jazz Music?
- Who are the major performers of Jazz Music?
Key Terms
- Tresillo - the most basic and by far, the most prevalent duple-pulse rhythmic cell in Sub-Saharan African music traditions.
- W.C. Handy - an African American cornet player known as "The Father of the Blues" with experience in minstrel shows and brass bands.
- Rag Time - "low-class" entertainment in dances, minstrel shows, and in vaudeville, by which many marching bands formed.
- Blues - the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African American communities primarily in the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.
- New Orleans Style - Dixieland
- Swing - the most important and enduring African-based rhythmic technique used in jazz.
- Bebop – a style of jazz that shifted jazz from danceable popular music towards a more challenging "musician's" music.
- Cool Jazz – a style of jazz that had a tendency towards calm and smoothness.
- Free Jazz – A style of jazz that broke through into an open space of "free tonality" in which meter, beat, and formal symmetry all disappeared
- Jazz Rock – a blend of jazz style and rock style of music
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