The World of Music 7th edition

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The World of Music7th edition

• Part 2
• Listening to American Music Folk, Religious,
  Pop, and Jazz
• Chapter 4 Religious Music Traditions

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The Roots of American Protestant Music

• Comes from both white and black populations
• Based in rural and small-town folk cultures
• Made a deep impact on American culture
• We will omit Catholic and Jewish Music at this
  time
• They are mentioned/discussed elsewhere

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Psalm Singing and Psalters

• Primarily a Protestant Tradition (vs.
  Catholic/Lutheran)
• Used by Puritans and Pilgrims alike
• Two types of singing
• Urban
• European
• Formal
• Notated
• Rural
• Memorized
• Lining Out
• Psalters are Hymnbooks
• 1st American Psalter Bay Psalm Book
• 1st book to be printed in British N. America -
  1640
• No Notation! Notation appeared in 1698

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Lining Out

• Begun in England and Scotland
• Common in rural congregations
• Still can be heard in rural areas of southeastern
  United States
• An early form of Call and Response singing
  style
• Could this be a early (really early) predecessor
  to Jazz?

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Singing Schools

• Encourages people to sing together decently
• Participants learned music, sang hymn tunes, made
  friends, and had a good time
• Early 18th century

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Shape-Note System

• Introduced in The Easy Instructor in 1801
• Each pitch is notated on staff
• With its own distinct shape (instead of a common
  shape that indicated length of the note)
• Used in singing schools in the South
• Best known titles are on page 60 in your text

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Traditional Black Gospel Music

• Emotional
• Vocal
• Physical
• Theatrical
• Musically Skillful
• Syncopated
• Ornate

• Cross-Over Artists
• Edwin Hawkins Singers
• Aretha Franklin
• Sam Cooke
• Little Richard

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Black Gospel Music cont.

• Early 20th century music, the words Gospel music
  Black Gospel Music
• Rooted in Black Spiritual, Camp meetings songs
  and hymns, Revival hymns, and Songlike Sermons
• Influenced
• early RB
• Soul
• Pop
• And grew into a Modern Black Gospel music with
  the inclusion of Jazz and Blues concepts
• Thomas Dorsey aka Georgia Tom
• Father of Modern Black Gospel Music

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Traditional White Gospel Music

• Referred to Hymns and Songs that used the four
  Gospels from the Bible for text/lyrics
• Contrasted to the Psalms of the Bible
• Mathew
• Mark
• Luke
• John
• More Urban than Rural
• Austere
• Classical
• Four-Part
• Old style Composers
• Thomas Hastings
• William Bradbury
• Lowell Mason

• Oral Tradition emerged
• More Rural and Urban
• Pentecostal typed churches
• Same music concepts, just a different delivery

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Gospel Music Today

• Often Racially Mixed
• Television
• Gospel TV (MTV concept)
• All Styles to be called the genre CCM
• Country Western
• Rhythm Blues
• Heavy Metal
• Rap/Hip-Hop
• Rock
• Easy Listening/Adult Contemporary
• All proclaiming the Christian Message
• Popular amongst Youth Services/Groups nowadays
• GMA (Gospel Music Association)
• Provides the CCM equivalent to the Grammy Awards
• Dove Awards