Audio Examples for The Sense of Music

Part 8. Modern Period - Pop-Art Tradition

1. Blues and Early Jazz

   1. First four bars
   2. Lo-o-ong
   3. Five-note pattern
   4. Crushed noted
   5. Trumpet melody

2. American Popular Song

   1. Engulfed Cathedral
   2. A foggy day
   3. I viewed the morning
   4. Not Gershwin's setting
   5. Angular melody pattern
   6. Big Ben melody

3. The Birth of Jazz and the Rise of the Big Bands

   1. Mellotone piano and bass
   2. Highly syncopated motive
   3. Short piano solo
   4. Triumphant four-measure passage

4. Bop and Cool Jazz

   1. 1920s bass pattern
   2. 1940s walking bass pattern
   3. Fifth and sixth measures
   4. Blues cliche
   5. Not Parker's solo
   6. Swirling, unexpected run
   7. Bass introduces the melody, piano responds
   8. Davis solo, circular motive
   9. Davis solo, stretched-out rhythm
   10. Coltrane solo

5. Rock ’n’ Roll

   1. Series of eight notes
   2. Typical boogie-woogie bass line
   3. Not a rock rhythm
   4. Harp, steady pulse
   5. Long reach and fall
   6. Stretched-out notes, freedom and escape

6. Bob Dylan and the Folk Revival

   1. Simple triads on guitar
   2. My darling young one
   3. Uniquely Dylan
   4. Dylan word-painting

7. Bossa Nova

   1. Toward a consonant relationship
   2. B section, or bridge