Second Entry Activity

second entry activity SPECIFIC OBJETIVES. To get a fluency when speaking about music To identify the basic terminology of Music. To Learn about the History of music and the process of how the instruments were developed To Learn more about their likes and the origin of the genres of all the World Music. second entry activity SPECIFIC OBJETIVES. To get a fluency when speaking about music To identify the basic terminology of Music. To Learn about the History of music and the process of how the instruments were developed To Learn more about their likes and the origin of the genres of all the World Music. Activity 1 Singing the blues Have you ever felt sad or lonely? Have you ever felt like singing about your troubles when you were sad? A lot of early Americans, particularly slaves, often felt this way because of the bad situation they found themselves in. They believed an important part of dealing with those feelings was sharing them. They did so through songs that can be traced directly to their African musical heritage. Music in African culture is an extremely important part of life. In African tribe, people sing songs as the do their work throughout the day. They learn songs about different aspects of life, their family history, the traditions of their tribe, and even songs for specific daily choirs. They also created songs and music for special events. When Africans were brought to America and forced into slavery, they brought this heritage with them.  While they worked in the fields, salves would sing songs to help them do the work and to help them feel better about their situation. When they were not working, they would sing melancholy songs in their homes or in religious gatherings. These songs were about the hardship of being a slave, the difficulties of losing their families, and the sadness of being separated from the ones they loved. Often they would petition God to help them in these difficult times in their lives. This, therefore, is the origin of what we call now the blues. The slaved continued to create these songs until they were freed ate the end of the civil war. Even after they were freed, the song and the style remained popular. BY about the 1900 the blues had developed into a standard musical form of about 12 measures that would be repeated for all the words in the song.  There were basically two periods of this more organized form of blues.  One began toward the end of the nineteenth century and ran to approximately 1930, and the other beginning 1930 and continued to the present time. The earlier period is basically divided into two main styles: one is country or rural blues, and the other is city or urban blues. The main difference between the two styles is that the city blues was more rhythmic and often faster than the country blues. Also the city blues performers were often accompanied by a complete jazz combo or rhythm section, consisting of a ´piano, bass and drums, and other instruments such as, trumpet, clarinet and trombone.  The country singers usually accompanied themselves with the guitar. Some of the best known country singers from the early period were Big Bill Bronzy, Robert Johnson, Blind lemon Jefferson, Teddy Ledbetter (also known as Led belly), Lightin Hopkins. The most famous urban blue singers were women. The most important names of the era were Ma Rainey, Mamie Smith, and the most famous of all, Bessie Smith. The second period, beginning in 1930, is divided between singers and instrumentalist. The singers include artist such as Joe Turner, Jimmy Rushing, Joe Williams, and Jimmy Witherspoon. The instrumentalist, many of whom also sang, were the great Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, and Ray Charles. Activity 2 identify the artist from the soup letter