C7.1 Development of Music Notes and examples

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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