What common blues techniques do “Poor Boy Blues,” “She Got Me Walkin’,” “Kokomo” and “From Dark till Dawn” share?
What will be an ideal response?
• Same 12-bar stanza structure
• Blue notes prominent in all the examples
• Polyrhythms between singer and accompanying instruments
• Syncopations
• Driving, rhythmic beat
• Emotional, truthful lyrics
• Simple, predictable chord progressions typically used in blues (I or I b7, IV or IV b7, V or V7) except for "I Need $100" which uses a one-string, non-chord instrument, the diddly bow
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As it relates to timbre, the Baroque ideal is best described as?
a) heterogeneous b) musical sections alternating heterogeneous and homogeneous c) a blend of essentially uniform sounds d) as varied as possible; there was no essentially ideal approach to timbre
While this composition conveys an introspective mood of tragedy and despair, it
is not related to a specific biographic event in the composer’s life. It was first performed in a casino, perhaps consoling those who had just lost a bundle of cash.
a. Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music) b. Mozart’s Don Giovanni c. Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 d. Haydn’s Symphony No. 94, the “Surprise” e. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5