September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
The sound of tonality continued to reign in American folk and commercial music throughout the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st, despite all the foregoing intellectual “formulas” of classical musical composition.
The most agreeable syntheses of musical styles in the 20th century were tonal jazz and rock ’n’ roll, composed of propulsive African rhythm and 19th-century European-American hymn-tune homophony, soulful blues and gospel music. The blues’ vocal form is 12 measures using the chords I, IV, V, and I. Melodically, it uses a jazz scale with a lowered ...
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