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Musicianship AMC 1053

Group Performance Assignment 2017

Details

Date: Week 10 or 11 (During Weekly Performance or normal class time)

Venue: Will depend on room availability, and may include the foyer of the faculty, cafe, or
recital rooms.

A Brief Introduction to
Responsibilities:

Any technical support you require must be arranged directly with the Technical Unit
(e.g. microphones, speakers, amplifiers, mixing desk)

Rehearsals must be organised by the students outside of class time.

Students are responsible for inviting audience members, including sta and students

Task:

Popular Music Styles The class should divide into performance groups of around 5-10 members.

Choose and perform a Malaysian traditional or popular song, which fuses musical
elements from any contrasting music style, e.g. Latin American, Traditional Chinese,
Western Classical, Bollywood.

Students must perform ONE (1) complete Malaysian song (approximately 3-4 minutes
duration) and may not perform a medley of songs, or mash-up of dierent songs.

Groups may include any combination of instruments and/or voices (e.g. instruments
Muzikaliti Weeks 6-7 only, voices only, combination of instruments and voices).

Dr Karen Lonsdale Grading Criteria Marks Allocated


Chose a song using fusion 10
Performed the song with accuracy
Demonstrated an understanding of fusion through the
performance.
Convincing presentation and delivery 10
Eective use of costumes and/or make-up
Use of standard stage etiquette, including ecient moving
on and o stage, acknowledging the audience (bowing),
spoken introduction.
Good project management skills (organisation)
Total Marks 20

CALL AND RESPONSE


My Generation (The Who)
https://youtu.be/qN5zw04WxCc
One soloist sings a phrase, and another singer or group of
singers sing a response to the phrase.
Blues 12 Bar Blues
African-American music that evolved through facing the
adversity of a life of slavery in the USA. Common form of blues
The blues evolved from hymns, work songs, and field hollers
music used to accompany spiritual, work and social functions. Chords I, IV, V over 12 bars, for example:
Blues is the foundation of jazz, rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll,
and country music. Introduced from the end of the 19th century
G G G G or G7 G7 G7 G7
(1800s)
C C G G or C7 C7 G7 G7
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnaorRAxhmU

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/ D D G G or D7 D7 G7 G7
history_of_jazz.htm

Blues influenced later styles,


such as early 50s Rock:
Hound Dog
Elvis Presley
http://youtu.be/lzQ8GDBA8Is

Hound Dog
Hound Dog
Ragtime 1890-1910
King of the Blues


1877 - Phonograph introduced making popular music widely accessible.

Ragtime hugely popular from the 1890s

BB King (1925-2015) Syncopated concert piece for piano; usually duple meter; steady bass;
typically 3-4 contrasting sections
https://youtu.be/eT3rXNPGFOM
Helped increase the sale of pianos and recordings

"Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin sold over 100,000 copies initially

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/timeline_year.php?pg=5
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200035811/default.html

JAZZ
African-American roots with influences from call and response, blues, improvisation,
elements of Western art music (classical)

Originated in the tobacco fields, cotton plantations, sugar marshes (slave

Ragtime
communities, mostly in the south of USA)

Black musicals and minstrel shows from the 1830s

Ragtime Piano : SCOTT JOPLIN . " The Entertainer " (1902) Black church/spiritual music

http://youtu.be/fPmruHc4S9Q
Louis Armstrong, Irving Berlin, John Coltrane, Big bands, e.g. Glen Miller Band, Ella
Fitzgerald, Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Sarah Vaughan,

Scat singing and improvisation techniques; Scat syllables

Scales and arpeggios (e.g. Blues Scale)

Swing rhythms

Ris
HTTP://WWW.ALLABOUTJAZZ.COM/TIMELINE.HTM

SYNCOPATION: RIFF

Stressing or accenting weak beats. Short, often catchy, repeated phrase, or set of notes
Examples: https://youtu.be/B9AKD_XMCds

Bebop
1940s-1950s; African American in origin

Small groups (combos) with 2 horns (trumpet/ Ella Fitzgerald


sax) and rhythm section (piano, bass, drums). How High the Moon
http://youtu.be/T8Ji4uG4cac
May also include guitar and other horns.
(Bepop and Scat Singing)
Scat singing (where the singer uses vocal
sounds which imitate the style of jazz instrument
solos)
http://www.jazzinamerica.org/LessonPlan/5/5/230

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