Transitions 196070

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Transitions1960-70
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Overview The Youth Generation of the 1960s

• Kennedy's assassination
• Social issues
• Sexual revolution
• Music was a central to the 1960s landscape

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Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan

• Early years
• New York City 1961
• March 1962

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Bob Dylan

• The Free-wheelin' Bob Dylan
• With The Times They Are a-Changin'
• Dylan warns the establishment
• Newport Folk Festival
• Another Side of Bob Dylan
• Folk rock
• Like a Rolling Stone

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Bob Dylan

• Dylan seemed to disappear
• All Along the Watchtower"
• Nashville Skyline
• Dylan after the 1960s

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Dyalns Significance

• Lyrics
• Symbolism, internal ironies, sarcasm,
  thought-provoking messages, dry wit, surrealism,
  and graceful flow

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Soul And Mowtown Aretha Franklin
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Soul And Mowtown Aretha Franklin

• Early years
• Early 1960s, Aretha pop singer for Columbia
  Records
  
• Wexler and Atlantic Records
• Songs by some of the finest songwriters
• Vocal agility

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Respect

• First uptempo hit
• Emotionally redefined fast soul
• Transforms sexual machismo
• Became anthem for womens movement
• Interlocked rhythm section

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Respect

• Riffs or sustained chords
• Gospel sound
• Spelling out RESPECT memorable
• Verse/refrain has changed
• Denser textures

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What a Friend We Have in Jesus

• familiar form
• sixteen measures
• AABA pattern

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What a Friend We Have in Jesus

• rhythm uncomplicated
• F major
• Expands form
• freedom of musical form

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What a Friend

• fills form with melody
• Compare the first two measures of the original
  tune with Arethas phrase
  
• notes added and rhythms significantly modified
• some notes falling behind where they should
  others coming ahead
  
• pitch variations
• blue note

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What a Friend

• Interpolations
• freedom to add words
• Melisma a technique in which one syllable is
  extended over two or more pitches

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Amazing Grace

• eleven minutes
• contains many examples of extended melismas
• Wide range of vocal timbres
• Shout What a Friend and needles pain
• Very breathy tone

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San Francisco Overview

• Drugs
• Volume levels at live concerts reached a new
  high.
  
• San Francisco groups often placed considerable
  emphasis on the instrumentalists
  
• Electronic technology

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Janis Joplin
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Janis Joplin

• Early years
• Ghet Helms
• Big Brother

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Ball and Chain

• Stutters, reiterations
• Melismas, interpolations
• Hommange to Smith?
• Hisses sitting
• Necessary embellishments

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Ball and Chain

• Joplins voice not as rich as Smiths
• Tempo of the song slower
• Musical space must be filled
• Progressively less restrained

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Pearl

• Roots in R B and Gospel
• Janis was unique

Mercedes Benz

• Parodies hippie values and communalism
• A cappella

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Art Rock And Frank Zappa
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Art Rock And Frank Zappa

• In the late 1960s, the creative minds in rock
  began to expand
  
• Just how far can Rock go?

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Classical Elements and Rock Elements

• 1. Quote a classical excerpt in the midst of a
  rock song.
  
• 2. Use a classical melody as the basis of a rock
  song.
  
• 3. Create a series of rock songs conceived as
  units in a larger form.

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Frank Zappa

• Introduction
• Offends
• Early years

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Help Im a Rock

• A "It can't happen here"non-metric, non-tonal
  vocal expanding this lyric
  
• B "Who could imagine"(1) "freak out in Kansas"
  (followed by improvisation on "Kansas")
  
• (2) "freak out in Minnesota" (followed by
  improvisation on "Minnesota")
  
• C Instrumental sectionpiano and drums in a
  fragmented, non-tonal, pointillistic style

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Help Im a Rock

• B "Who could imagine""freak out in
• Washington, D.C." (followed by
• improvisation on "D.C.")
• A "It can't happen here"enters underneath
  previous section, but begins to dominate
  
• D "I remember"metric three phrases

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Help Im a Rock

• A "It couldn't happen here"brief return
• E Suzy Creamcheesedialogue with semi-fictional
  Zappa character
  
• A "It can't happen here"brief return filtered
  voices

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Help Im a Rock

• Combines two common classical forms the arch
  form and the rondo.
  
• C
• B B
• A A
• Improvisation
• Experimentation with textures

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Frank Zappa

• Drugs
• Uncle Meat
• Fillmore East
• Shut Up Play Yer Guitar