MUNM 287: Exam #1 questions n
answers latest update
Blues Lyric Form - correct answer ✔✔-AAB
-A reported, B responding
-Antecedent consequent (question-answer) format
-some told stories verse by verse
-some called "floating verses"
Field Hollers & Call and Response - correct answer ✔✔-Influenced vocal music of blacks in rural
south
-What the Blues imitates, close relation to the primitive blues
-Both serve as forms of slavery communication
Roots & Sources of Blues - correct answer ✔✔-cries/calls as communication
-blues scale in calls as a reminder of relation between calls and primitive rural blues
-early sources: solo vocal style accompanied by banjo/guitar
-lyrics may seem simple but are very complex
-influenced by work songs, field hollers, music of street musicians
-Lyrics had basic in african culture/religion
Regional Styles of the Blues - correct answer ✔✔Delta, Texas, Classic
Delta Blues - correct answer ✔✔-earliest style: originating in region stretching from Memphis
TN to Vicksburg MS to Helena AK to Yazoo River
,-most primitive form of blues (most raw and pure form)
-contributes to rock and roll
Distinguishing Characteristics of Delta Blues - correct answer ✔✔1. Raw sound both vocally and
instrumentally
2. Makes them the most somber in tone and expression -Highly improvisational
3. Dominated by male guitar players -Imitative of the work songs.
Vocals of Delta Blues - correct answer ✔✔-raw sound vocally/instrumentally
-somber in tone/expression, improvisational
-introspective/soulful to passionate/fiery vocal styles
-speech effects of groan to open and changing to spoken lyrics
Singers of Delta Blues - correct answer ✔✔-Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson
Instruments of Delta Blues - correct answer ✔✔-guitar, harmonica, cigar box guitar as dominant
instruments
-slide guitar (usually steel) as hallmark
-bottleneck style and rhythmic slapping
Charley Patton - correct answer ✔✔-Father of the Delta Blues
-seminal influence on musicians throughout Delta
-known for smacking guitar down
Son House - correct answer ✔✔-strattled idea of blues association with the devil
-pioneered innovative style of strong repetitive rhythms, often with slide guitar
-incorporated elements of gospel and spiritual
, -Delta Blues
Who did Son House influence? - correct answer ✔✔Robert Johnson, John Hammond, Alan
Wilson, Bonnie Raitt, White Stripes, John Mooney
Robert Johnson - correct answer ✔✔-King of the Delta Bluesmen
-combination of singing, guitar, songwriting
-only 29 songs
-mysterious short lived life, died 27, theory of selling soul to devil
-master of the blues, particularly Mississippi delta blues style
-notion of devil as prominent theme
Impact of Robert Johnson - correct answer ✔✔-one of first to learn from recordings of others
-delta blues style with repose stripped away
-provided foundations for lyrics with delta poetry
What Robert Johnson song is a blues standard? - correct answer ✔✔Crossroads
Characteristics of the Blues - correct answer ✔✔-raw sound, self taught
-somber in tone
-highly improvisational
-imitates slavery communication
-speech effects of groan to open and changing to spoken lyrics
-bottleneck and rhythmic slapping on guitar
-musical riffs/short musical passages played over and over
-not always 12 bar, some improvised
answers latest update
Blues Lyric Form - correct answer ✔✔-AAB
-A reported, B responding
-Antecedent consequent (question-answer) format
-some told stories verse by verse
-some called "floating verses"
Field Hollers & Call and Response - correct answer ✔✔-Influenced vocal music of blacks in rural
south
-What the Blues imitates, close relation to the primitive blues
-Both serve as forms of slavery communication
Roots & Sources of Blues - correct answer ✔✔-cries/calls as communication
-blues scale in calls as a reminder of relation between calls and primitive rural blues
-early sources: solo vocal style accompanied by banjo/guitar
-lyrics may seem simple but are very complex
-influenced by work songs, field hollers, music of street musicians
-Lyrics had basic in african culture/religion
Regional Styles of the Blues - correct answer ✔✔Delta, Texas, Classic
Delta Blues - correct answer ✔✔-earliest style: originating in region stretching from Memphis
TN to Vicksburg MS to Helena AK to Yazoo River
,-most primitive form of blues (most raw and pure form)
-contributes to rock and roll
Distinguishing Characteristics of Delta Blues - correct answer ✔✔1. Raw sound both vocally and
instrumentally
2. Makes them the most somber in tone and expression -Highly improvisational
3. Dominated by male guitar players -Imitative of the work songs.
Vocals of Delta Blues - correct answer ✔✔-raw sound vocally/instrumentally
-somber in tone/expression, improvisational
-introspective/soulful to passionate/fiery vocal styles
-speech effects of groan to open and changing to spoken lyrics
Singers of Delta Blues - correct answer ✔✔-Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson
Instruments of Delta Blues - correct answer ✔✔-guitar, harmonica, cigar box guitar as dominant
instruments
-slide guitar (usually steel) as hallmark
-bottleneck style and rhythmic slapping
Charley Patton - correct answer ✔✔-Father of the Delta Blues
-seminal influence on musicians throughout Delta
-known for smacking guitar down
Son House - correct answer ✔✔-strattled idea of blues association with the devil
-pioneered innovative style of strong repetitive rhythms, often with slide guitar
-incorporated elements of gospel and spiritual
, -Delta Blues
Who did Son House influence? - correct answer ✔✔Robert Johnson, John Hammond, Alan
Wilson, Bonnie Raitt, White Stripes, John Mooney
Robert Johnson - correct answer ✔✔-King of the Delta Bluesmen
-combination of singing, guitar, songwriting
-only 29 songs
-mysterious short lived life, died 27, theory of selling soul to devil
-master of the blues, particularly Mississippi delta blues style
-notion of devil as prominent theme
Impact of Robert Johnson - correct answer ✔✔-one of first to learn from recordings of others
-delta blues style with repose stripped away
-provided foundations for lyrics with delta poetry
What Robert Johnson song is a blues standard? - correct answer ✔✔Crossroads
Characteristics of the Blues - correct answer ✔✔-raw sound, self taught
-somber in tone
-highly improvisational
-imitates slavery communication
-speech effects of groan to open and changing to spoken lyrics
-bottleneck and rhythmic slapping on guitar
-musical riffs/short musical passages played over and over
-not always 12 bar, some improvised
