C7.1 Development of Music Notes and examples

 1.

Renaissance lute

John Dowland

Flow My Tears

Used Harmonic Minor

6 double courses and one single course

Came back from the Crusades: El'Oud

12 BAR BLUES

C/// C/// F/// C////

F/// F/// C/// C///

G/// F/// C/// C///

Uses I IV and V

also uses the Dominant 7th to add bit of spice/Jazziness and a blue note form the Blues/Pentatonic scale

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Stand By Me Lord

R&B and SOUL

Soul Stirrers - 1955 adds in a minor 6th, eg. C, Am, F, G - beginning/similar to a 4-chord turnaround indicated by the major relative minor Vamp in the verses

C= CEG

Am = ACE

One-note difference; easy to go to the relative minor.

Use Roman Numerals for Chords

Use Arabic numbers for notes

J.S.BACH 

Arpeggiated Chords

Improvising around chord sequences

Tension and release

Jazz development and influence

Bluegrass - folk + Jazz impro

BANJO - A culturally Loaded instrument?

Beyoncé - Politically loaded music?

Dolly Parton colab, Rhiannon Giddons colab.

Slavery, Imperialism, Minstrel Shows, Cab Calloway rejection of the Banjo:

Johnny Cash Film Link

INTO THE 60's

Phil Spector - legendary (Toxic) producer: 'Wall of Sound'

https://youtu.be/e-dr1PZZMds?si=D3MvIu4h7uZ0LYO0

The Ronettes - Be My Baby

Note: the bass drum/ tambourine part

The circle of fifths in the second half of the verse

The Doo-wop 4-chord turnaround in the Chorus

The Hair and eye makeup...

 

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black, with Mark Ronson, Retro 60's pop in the 00's

https://youtu.be/TJAfLE39ZZ8?si=ge3-Fukb3wOEScvm

Note: the Hair and eye makeup...

The four-chord turnaround

The difference in the Bridge: the Dominant 7th Chord

The almost monotone melody over the harmony

The Percussion!!

Types of Reverb:

Tape (Reel-to-reel - Space Echo) 50's early 60's

Chamber (Capitol) 40's - 50's Frank Sinatra

Plate 50's - 70's (voice, Horns)

Spring (Fender) 60's

80's Digital Delay/Analogue Bucket Brigade (Memory Man)

Impulse Convolution  - 00's

DISTORTION

Mid- late fuzz pedals in the 60's

Hendrix and Electro-Harmonix

Slashed speakers - Ike Turner, Rocket 88, combo fell off the station wagon at SUN recording session.

Independent Record Labels - 50's-60's

Chess, Chicago

Little Walter (Harmonica through hi impedance Mic into a Tube Amp)

Muddy Waters

Howling Wolf

Chuck Berry - Roack and Roll

Etta James

SUN - Memphis

Elvis

Jerry Lee 'Monster' Lewis

Roy Orbinson

Johnny Cash

'Million Dollar Quartet'

Atlantic

Ray Charles

Aretha Franklin

Post MLK tours, teenage jazz work

Full rock and roll Gospel mode with killer piano

Last performance

Led Zepellin

Motown - Hitsville USA, Detroit

Tamla

The Supremes with Diana Ross
The Temptations
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
The Four Tops
The Jackson 5 (including Michael Jackson)
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Gladys Knight & the Pips
The Commodores (featuring Lionel Richie)
The Isley Brothers
Stevie Wonder
Marvin Gaye
Diana Ross (solo career)
Lionel Richie
Mary Wells
Edwin Starr
House band - The Funk Brothers, James Jamerson, Bassist

STAX - Soulsville USA, Memphis

Sam & Dave
The Staple Singers:
The Bar-Kays

House Bands - Booker T. & the M.G.'s, The Mar-Keys

Otis Reading
David Porter
Isaac Hayes
Rufus and Carla Thomas
Albert King
Delaney and Bonnie

Dylan - motorcycle accident, The Band, Bootlegs, Music from the Big Pink

West Coast - sound

Buffalo Springfield

The Byrds

Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - Canadians moved down

CSNY - supergroup
appeared at Woodstock 1969

Larel Canyon, LA santa Monica Mountain scene

Charles Manson - serial killer, the LA Canyon's

Counterculture

Counter-intel Programme (Through a Mirror Darkly, Ken Casey, One flew in through the Cuckoo's Nest)

Harry Belafonte and CIA assets (National TV show in 1968)

MLK assassination 1968

Altamont deaths - Gimme Shelter, Darkness 1969

Death of Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones, 69/70 (age of 27)

Freedom of the late sixties dissolved into Selfish Hedonism of the seventies

Counterculture turned to religion and spirituality - revivals in early-mid 70's

Development of the PA - Technology

post Beatles experience at Shea Stadium, - why the beatles gave up playing live

Bob Pridden pioneer of on-stage sound monitors - The Who

Pete Townsend worked with Jim Marshall

The sound systems owned by bands used for all the events:

Chalie Watkins - WEM

HH

LED ZEPPELIN, STONES - 70's birth of Stadium Rock. The Sound systems and audience was there to start to play stadia.