Music 171 Final Question and answers
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Early rock n roll - correct answers • Began as white artist covering black artists
- Mix of R&B, country
• Boogie woogie piano
• Stop time
• 12metre sections
• Excluded women
Women in Music during the time of rock and roll - correct answers - Up to rock
and roll women were prominent in the music scene, music was proper and
sold mainly to white audiences - Pattie Page - controlled and repressed
performances
- Once rock and roll craze started women declined from the charts
- Women are infantilized (talked about as babies)
- Portrayed as babies or dangerous
How did rock and roll begin? - correct answers - Smaller independent radio
stations were able to compete and played all sorts of music, sent out people
looking for music
- Radio stations didn't want to buy full LP so companies sent out 45s for much
less so radio stations would play the music. Circulation of the 45 made music
more affordable
- With the success of smaller radio stations, more chains of radio stations
occurred (meet niches)
- Todd Storz and Gordon McLanden - developed a series of radio station
chains - format to allow strategic repetition - made top 40 radio - repeats over
the day
,- Music was still segregated
Intro - 4 boogie woogie piano
Verse - 12 sax riff 1 (C+R)
Verse - 12 Riff 1
Verse- 12 sax riff 2
Chorus - 12
Baritone sax solo -12 lots of improv
V-12
C-12
V-12 riff 2
C_12 - correct answers Big joe turner - shake rattle and roll
1954
What makes Big joe turner - shake rattle and roll R&B - correct answers - C+R
- AAB lyrics
- Upbeat - dance music for black population
- Backbeat - snare - claps
- 12m sections
- Boogie woogie piano
- Vocal singing style
- Low end emphasis - baratone sax
- More sexual lyrics
1950s post war
Kids had more money
,Radios moved out of the home and in to the car
Producers rushed to capitalize on this new craze
Intro 4
V- 12 riff 1 sax
Chorus 12 backbeat claps
V-12 riff 2 sax
Chorus 12 backbeat claps
Tenor sax solo - 12 C+R
Verse -12 riff 1
Verse - 12 riff 2
Chorus- 12 backbeat
Tag- 2 - correct answers Bill Haley and the comets - shake rattle and roll
1954
Differences between 2 versions of shake rattle and roll - correct answers -
Higher key
- Chorus melody opening
- Deemphasized piano
- Tag at the end
- Shorter - one less verse
- Lyrics much less sexual
- Overall much more radio friendly
, 1950s post war
Kids had more money
Radios moved out of the home and in to the car
Producers rushed to capitalize on this new craze
Pick up - starts on a different beat then the first one (you aint nothing but a
HOUND DOG)
Chorus 13 - C+R strong backbeat
Verse 13 - """"
Chorus 12
Guitar solo - 36. 12+12+12. Vocal improv C+R
Verse 12 ½.
Chorus 12
Tag 1
- Church, gospel
- Written by two men - Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller - correct answers Hound
Dog - Big Momma Thornton
1952
What makes Hound Dog - Big Momma Thornton R&B / African American -
correct answers - 12m sections - not entirely regular
- AAB lyrics
- Low end emphasis
- Moderate tempo
- Sexual lyrics
- Raspy / deep voice
already passed 2025
Early rock n roll - correct answers • Began as white artist covering black artists
- Mix of R&B, country
• Boogie woogie piano
• Stop time
• 12metre sections
• Excluded women
Women in Music during the time of rock and roll - correct answers - Up to rock
and roll women were prominent in the music scene, music was proper and
sold mainly to white audiences - Pattie Page - controlled and repressed
performances
- Once rock and roll craze started women declined from the charts
- Women are infantilized (talked about as babies)
- Portrayed as babies or dangerous
How did rock and roll begin? - correct answers - Smaller independent radio
stations were able to compete and played all sorts of music, sent out people
looking for music
- Radio stations didn't want to buy full LP so companies sent out 45s for much
less so radio stations would play the music. Circulation of the 45 made music
more affordable
- With the success of smaller radio stations, more chains of radio stations
occurred (meet niches)
- Todd Storz and Gordon McLanden - developed a series of radio station
chains - format to allow strategic repetition - made top 40 radio - repeats over
the day
,- Music was still segregated
Intro - 4 boogie woogie piano
Verse - 12 sax riff 1 (C+R)
Verse - 12 Riff 1
Verse- 12 sax riff 2
Chorus - 12
Baritone sax solo -12 lots of improv
V-12
C-12
V-12 riff 2
C_12 - correct answers Big joe turner - shake rattle and roll
1954
What makes Big joe turner - shake rattle and roll R&B - correct answers - C+R
- AAB lyrics
- Upbeat - dance music for black population
- Backbeat - snare - claps
- 12m sections
- Boogie woogie piano
- Vocal singing style
- Low end emphasis - baratone sax
- More sexual lyrics
1950s post war
Kids had more money
,Radios moved out of the home and in to the car
Producers rushed to capitalize on this new craze
Intro 4
V- 12 riff 1 sax
Chorus 12 backbeat claps
V-12 riff 2 sax
Chorus 12 backbeat claps
Tenor sax solo - 12 C+R
Verse -12 riff 1
Verse - 12 riff 2
Chorus- 12 backbeat
Tag- 2 - correct answers Bill Haley and the comets - shake rattle and roll
1954
Differences between 2 versions of shake rattle and roll - correct answers -
Higher key
- Chorus melody opening
- Deemphasized piano
- Tag at the end
- Shorter - one less verse
- Lyrics much less sexual
- Overall much more radio friendly
, 1950s post war
Kids had more money
Radios moved out of the home and in to the car
Producers rushed to capitalize on this new craze
Pick up - starts on a different beat then the first one (you aint nothing but a
HOUND DOG)
Chorus 13 - C+R strong backbeat
Verse 13 - """"
Chorus 12
Guitar solo - 36. 12+12+12. Vocal improv C+R
Verse 12 ½.
Chorus 12
Tag 1
- Church, gospel
- Written by two men - Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller - correct answers Hound
Dog - Big Momma Thornton
1952
What makes Hound Dog - Big Momma Thornton R&B / African American -
correct answers - 12m sections - not entirely regular
- AAB lyrics
- Low end emphasis
- Moderate tempo
- Sexual lyrics
- Raspy / deep voice
