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Slide 1: Jammin’ to the beat of America Click to edit Master subtitle style P History 10 Aaron Spraggins 4/9/10
Slide 2: “American Music”  The development of musical arts in the United States shows the progression of the country over time and shows, by the diversity of the music, how diverse the country as a whole truly is. in the United States has become as diverse as the actual inhabitants of the country. • The diverseness shows how America is a 4/9/10  Music
Slide 3: Importance of music in America  The development of music in the North American continent was important because: • It has changed over time, with the morphing of economical, social, and political times. created. • It was unique to the times in which it was • It was developed by very different people with different views. 4/9/10
Slide 4: Music by time period  Each era has its own unique sound. 4/9/10
Slide 5: In the beginning..  Most of the upper class in Colonial America listened to composers such as: • Ludwig van Beethoven • Johann Sebastian Bach • Franz Joseph Haydn 4/9/10
Slide 6: The Classics  Classical music • Very broad time period  This music entails the time period of 1550 and 1900. • “Classical” can also mean “Serious,” which is what this genre of music truly is. • Most of the beginnings of classical music was used in religious ceremonies. 4/9/10
Slide 7: Spiritual  The Bay Psalme Book (The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre) was published in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1640; it was the first book of any kind printed in the English colonies of North America. • This book was filled with hymns.  During the Colonial Era, the “church band” was created 4/9/10
Slide 8: In the colonies  Music was mostly: • Spirituals • Military Marches • Hymns  In the 1830s, a Great Awakening of avid Christianity began, leading to popular spiritual song traditions. During this period, the country was undergoing a religious revival that centered around 4/9/10
Slide 9: Colonial America Now playing: Over Hills Far Away  Many  Basic styles of music came from where ever the migrants came from, mostly England. string instruments and woodwinds were used during this time period. Such as: • Violins (by far the most popular instrument) • Flutes • Recorders • Fifes • Pennywhistles  Oddly enough, men played most of the instruments. 4/9/10
Slide 10: Immigrant music styles  Ideas spawn from other ideas, so the music brought to and created in America came from very different places: • Germany brought polka • England brought classical style • Italy brought classical • Poland brought fiddling • Africans brought soul and gospel 4/9/10
Slide 11: The creation of instruments  The  The  The Glass Armonica was invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761.(Dance (Handel's Messiah) of the Sugar Plum Fairies) Kazoo was created in the mid-1800’s. Banjo, invented by slaves in early America, and popularized in the 1830's 4/9/10
Slide 12: Other beginning music  The beginnings of U.S. Military bands began in 1798. • Thomas Jefferson set the Traditional “American” instrumentation:  Clarinets, Bassoons, Oboes, and Horns  Now Playing: Dying Redcoat 4/9/10
Slide 13: Military music  Most of the music, other than religious music was meant for military marches. • These pieces were meant to be easy to play and keep the marching of the soldiers in step and at tempo. These marches kept the soldiers upbeat. 4/9/10
Slide 14: Operas Opera was also popular; the first opera to be performed in the US was Giovanni Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona in 1790. 4/9/10
Slide 15: The music spreads..  As colonization continued and people spread west, many new styles developed among different people. • Africans in Louisiana  Creole slaves sang and danced in large groups usually to tropical music. • Appalachian Folk Music  As the great awakening approached, many new genres of music spawned for 4/9/10
Slide 16: The Civil War era  Following the civil war, negro spiritual music became popular and branched off into many genres:  The creation of the Banjo came during this time • Blues • Cajun • Creole  During the Civil War, brass bands became popular. These bands are 4/9/10
Slide 17: The 19th century  The 19th century saw a growing popularity in African American music. • In the 1890’s, Rag music (also referred to as “ragtime”) became a major hit. Rag music is in close relation to jazz and the blues. 4/9/10
Slide 18: Music by people  Different culture brings different music 4/9/10
Slide 19: The Natives  Native Americans had no original traditions of classical music, nor a worldly song tradition. • Their music was spiritual in nature, performed usually in groups in a ritual setting important to their religion worship, and song was regarded as a direct link to the divine. 4/9/10 • for some groups, music was the main way of • Though many Native Americans claim their
Slide 20: Folk music • Celtic folk tunes and ballads continued evolving from their distant roots along the Appalachians  jug bands  country blues  hillbilly music  eventually became country music.  eventually forming: • These folk tunes adopted characteristics from multiple sources, including British broadside ballads, African folk tunes and minstrel shows 4/9/10
Slide 21: Southern migration  This movement created folk music. • Polish • Scottish  The fiddle was used primarily in folk music. hymnody, a religious music style perpetuated by the Old Regular Baptists and Primitive Baptists is often studied and classified as folk music. 4/9/10  Lined-out
Slide 22: Moving west  With westward migration came the need of more people and people to do the work for you. • African slaves were a main contributors to the music of the south and west in America.  Creole music  Soul  Blues  All 3 types of music came from this group of people. 4/9/10
Slide 23: Creole soul  African slaves in places like Haiti, Brazil and the Dominican Republic retained the use of drums, and their percussion has formed an important part of AfroCaribbean and Latin music. dances known to have been imported to Louisiana include the calenda, congo, counjai and bamboula. (different types of drums) 4/9/10  Caribbean
Slide 24: Negro Spirituals  African-Americans, still mostly enslaved, were not generally allowed to participate, they watched, and were inspired to use African vocal styles and rhythms with the English hymns. These songs were called Negro spirituals. While many were songs praising God or Jesus, others contained coded messages to fellow slaves and rhetoric or symbolically demanding freedom. 4/9/10
Slide 25: Jazz, Ragtime, and the Blues  European instruments like the clarinet, oboe, French horn and, most importantly, the violin. • Often, prominent gentlemen had black slaves act as musicians and entertainers. • Some became quite prominent. • Following the Civil War, a form of song developed with some distinctive characteristics that may be of ancient origin, perhaps related to the call-and-response format. 4/9/10
Slide 26: Bibliography  Wikipedia 1) Music of the United States  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_the_United_States  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_history_of_the_United  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_history_of_the_United  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_history_of_the_United  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_history_of_the_United 2) American Popular Music  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_popular_music 4/9/10