TABLE OF CONTENTS
Lesson 1: Can Music Have A Specific Purpose?
1. Can Music Have A Specific Purpose?
Lesson 2: The Performer's Role
1. The Performer’s Role
2. Discussion Question 1: The Performer’s Role
Lesson 3: Types of Listeners
1. Casual Listeners
2. Referential Listeners
3. Critical and Perceptive Listeners
Lesson 4: Structure of Music
1. Structure of Music
2. Basic Musical Concepts Quiz
Lesson 5: Music Basics 1
1. Keyboard
2. Octave
3. Diatonic and Chromatic Scales
4. Staves and Clefs
Lesson 6: Music Basics 2
1. Pitch
2. Rhythm
3. Meter
Lesson 7: Music Basics 3
1. Simple Meters
2. The Pickup
3. Summary
4. Discussion Question 2: Your Musical Background
5. Music Basics Quiz
Lesson 8: Ragtime, Popular Song, and the Jazz Roots of Rock
1. Introduction
2. Broadway and Ragtime
3. New Orleans Jazz
4. Swing and Big Band
5.Conclusion
6. Lesson 1 Assessment
Lesson 9: Rural Blues and Urban Blues
1. Introduction
2. Musical and Poetic Form of the 12-Bar Blues
3. Rural Blues
4. Urban Blues
5. Boogie Woogie
6. Commercial or Arranged Blues
7. Conclusion
8. Lesson 2 Assessment
Lesson 10: Other African American Roots of Rock
1. Spirituals
2. Gospel Music
3. Vocal Harmony Groups
4. Early Rhythm and Blues
5. The Audience for Rhythm and Blues
6. Conclusion
7. Lesson 3 Assessment
Lesson 11: Rhythm and Blues Becomes Rock and Roll
1. Introduction
2. New Technologies and Means of Consumption
3. Alan Freed
4. Ray Charles and the Gospel Side of Rock and Roll
5. Rhythm and Blues Crosses Over
6. Cover Versions
7. Conclusion
8. Lesson 5 Assessment
Lesson 12: American Popular Music in the Nineteenth Century
1. Introduction
2. Blackface Minstrelsy
3. Sheet Music
4. Sheet Music (cont.)
5. Conclusion
6. Lesson 1 Assessment
Lesson 13: New Orleans Jazz
1. New Orleans: The Birthplace of Jazz
2. Musical Components of New Orleans Jazz
3. Key Figures in New Orleans Jazz
4. New Orleans Jazz on the Move
5. Recording Jazz
6. Conclusion
7. Lesson 4 Assessment
Lesson 14: Swing and Big Bands
1. Introduction
2. Music Consumption in the Swing Era
3. Society Syncopators
4. Big Bands
5.White Swing Bandleaders
6.Kansas City Swing
7. Conclusion
8. Lesson 5 Assessment
Lesson 15: Broadway and the Development of the American Musical
1. Introduction
2. From Tin Pan Alley to Broadway Musical
3. The Composers of Broadway
4. The Age of Great Standards
5. Conclusion
6. Lesson 6 Assessment
Lesson 16: Currents in America 1
1. Steve Reich
2. Philip Glass
3. John Adams
4. Currents in the New World: Musical Theatre
5. Leonard Bernstein and West Side Story
6. Music for Film
Lesson 17: Currents in America 2
1. Charles Ives
2. Aaron Copland
3. John Cage
4. George Crumb
5. Joan Tower
6. Currents in America Quiz
Lesson 18: Western Music
1. Introduction
2. The 19th Century Crucible
3. The Great Divide
Lesson 19: Western Music
1. Western Music
2. Western Swing
3. Bluegrass
3. What to Listen for in Country Music
Lesson 20: Country Counterculture
1. Country Counterculture
2. Alternatives
3. Hot Country; Conclusion
4. Country Music and Country Counterculture Quiz
Lesson 21: Elvis Presley
1. Introduction
2. Sam Phillips and Sun Records
3. The Hillbilly Cat
4. Colonel Tom Parker and Presley at RCA-Victor
5. Presley’s Cover Versions
6. Presley After the 1950s
7. Elvis Presley Quiz
8. The Blues and Rock and Roll Written Assignment
9. Discussion Question 4: Elvis Presley
Lesson 23: Midterm
1. Midterm Exam
Lesson 24: Soul
1. Introduction
2. The African American Presence in Pop
3. Motown 1
4. Motown 2
5. Motown 3
6. Atlantic and Stax
7. Conclusion
8. Soul Quiz
Lesson 25: Folk and Folk Rock
1. Introduction
2. Folk Music Before the 1960s
3. Authentic vs. Commercial
4. Bob Dylan
5. Bob Dylan (Continued)
6. The Rise of Folk Rock
7. Dylan’s Influence During the 1960s
8. Conclusion
9. Soul Quiz
Lesson 26: Fusion
1. Introduction
2. Jazz After Swing
3. Bitches Brew
4. Selling Out?
5. Fusion in the 1970s
6. Fusion in the 1970s (Continued)
7. Conclusion
8. Fusion Quiz
Lesson 27: From Soul to Funk
1. Introduction
2. Music and the Civil Rights Movement
3. James Brown
4. James Brown’s Band
5. The Musical Language of Funk
6. Sly and the Family Stone
7. George Clinton and the P-Funk
8. George Clinton and the P-Funk (Continued)
9. Funk and the Media
10. Conclusion
11. Lesson 30 Assessment
Lesson 28: Hip-Hop
1. Introduction
2. The Roots of Hip-Hop
3. Early Commercial Hip-Hop
4. Hip-Hop Goes Mainstream
5. Hip-Hop Goes Mainstream (Continued)
6. Hip-Hop Takes Over
7. Conclusion
8. Lesson 28 Assessment
Lesson 29: Early Jazz
1. New Orleans Jazz
2. The Legend of Buddy Bolden
3. Jelly Roll Morton
4. Joe “King” Oliver
5. Sidney Bechet
6. Blue Horizon
7. New Orleans Jazz
8. Chicago
9. Louis Armstrong
10. Discussion Question 5: Early Jazz
11. Early Jazz Quiz
Lesson 30: Struttin’ With Some Barbecue
1. Struttin’ With Some Barbecue
2. Scat Singing
3. Earl Hines
4. Bix Beiderbecke
5. Frankie “Tram” Trumbauer
6. From Chicago to New York
7. James P. Johnson
8. Harlem Stride Piano
9. Fats Waller
10. Toward Swing
11. Summary
12. Let’s Discuss: Early Jazz
13. Struttin’ With Some Barbecue Quiz
Lesson 31: Swing in the 30's and Duke Ellington
1. Swing
2. Fletcher Henderson: Pioneer of Swing
3. Wrappin’ It Up
4. Coleman Hawkins: The first great tenor saxophonist
5. Django Reinhardt: The first great European jazz musician
6. Benny Carter and Roy Eldridge: Two masters of swing
7. Art Tatum: Keyboard virtuoso
8. Duke Ellington
9. Swing Quiz
Lesson 32: Bebop and the Advent of Modern Jazz
1. Modern Jazz
2. Bebop
3. Charlie Parker
4. Parker’s Style
5. Bebop, Ballads, and Blues
6. Dizzy Gillespie
7. Gillespie and Parker and 52nd Street
8. Afro-Cuban Jazz
9. Jazz Performance Report Assignment
10. Bebop Quiz
Lesson 33: Miles Davis, Modal Jazz, and Bill Evans
1. Miles Davis
2. Miles Davis Sextet, 1959
3. Modal Jazz
4. Davis’ “So What”
5. Davis’ “Flamenco Sketches”
6. Bill Evans
7. Bill Evans Trio
8. Miles Davis, Modal Jazz, and Bill Evans Quiz
Lesson 34: John Coltrane
1. John Coltrane
2. Coltrane’s “Giant Steps”
3. Coltrane’s Use of Pedal Points
4. The Classic Coltrane Quartet
5. ‘Trane and the Soprano Saxophone
6. Coltrane’s Quartet “Alabama” and “A Love Supreme”
7. Toward Free Jazz
8. John Coltrane Quiz
Lesson 35: Music in Native North America: Traditional and Intertribal Styles
1. Introduction
2. Studying Native North America
3. Studying Native North America II
Lesson 36: Musical Instruments of Native North America
1. Musical Instruments I: Drums
2. Musical Instruments II: Rattles and Flutes
3. The Northeast: The Seneca People of the Iroquois Confederacy
4. The Southwest: The Diné, or Navajo People
5. Intertribal Music
6. Quiz 1: Music of Native America
Lesson 37: Pow-wows: Southern and Northern
1. Pow-wows: Southern and Northern
2. Pow-wows: Southern and Northern II
3. Listening Guides
4. Native American Music: Short Written Assignment
5. Quiz 2: Music of Native America
Lesson 38: Final Exam
1. Final Exam
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OnMusic of the USA provides a comprehensive overview of the different musical traditions that form the rich musical tapestry of the United States.
Beginning with a broad introduction to basic music concepts and organizing elements, OnMusic of the USA helps your students dig deeper into the musical components so they can become more perceptive listeners. With this foundation in place, the text shifts focus onto exploring uniquely American music genres: Jazz, the Blues, ragtime, swing and big bands, country, Native American, rockabilly, bluegrass, soul, rock, and hip-hop. This panorama of the American music experience also covers deeply influential artists and the cultural impact of their music on American society.
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