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Understanding 20th and 21st Century Music
Technology

• Listen to the following recording and identify
  the style of this music from the following
  options, providing a reason for your answer
• Jazz funk
• Soul/RnB
• Indie
• New Wave
• Electroacoustic
• Reggae
• World Music
• 20th/21st Century Classical

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RB
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RB
Rhythm and Blues (also known as RB or RnB) is a
popular music genre combining Jazz, Gospel and
Blues influences and was first performed by
African American artists RB first originated in
the 1940s Listen to this example
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RB
The term was originally used by record companies
to describe recordings marketed mainly to urban
African Americans, at a time when sophisticated,
rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent
beat was becoming more popular.
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Key characteristics of RB

• Drum machine backed rhythms
• Hip-hop or dance inspired beats
• Many contemporary RB vocalists use melismatic
  singing

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RB

• Listen to Dont you Know I Love You The Clovers
  and identify key features
• Consider
• Melody/Harmony
• Rhythm/Tempo
• Texture/Structure/Form
• Timbre/Dynamics
• Complete the listening log found in your record
  of work

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Does the song have different verses
choruses/sections?
How many beats are in the bar?
Rhythm/Tempo
Texture/ Structure/Form
Is the song Homophonic or Polyphonic?
How fast or slow is the piece?
Is the song in a Major or Minor key?
How loud/soft is this song/are there changes in
volume?
Timbre/Dynamics
Melody/Harmony
Do you hear harmony/unison?
What instruments/voices do you hear? How are they
singing?
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RB

• Complete the listening log in your Record of Work
  Book

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R B Listening Activity

• Listen to Crazy in Love by clicking on the link
  opposite.
• Complete the song plan sheet (shown on the next
  slide) in your record of work

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Understanding 20th and 21st Century Music
Technology

• Listen to the following recording and identify
  the style of this music from the following
  options, providing a reason for your answer
• Jazz funk
• Soul/RnB
• Indie
• New Wave
• Electroacoustic
• Reggae
• World Music
• 20th/21st Century Classical

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Soul music
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A style of Afro-American popular music which
originated in the 1950s-1960s including elements
of blues and gospel and conveying strong
emotions.
Soul
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Stevie Wonder
Aretha Franklin
Can you name any others?
Soul
Bill Withers
Marvin Gaye
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Bill Withers.

• Born July 4, 1938) is an American singer
  songwriter and musician who performed and
  recorded from 1970 until 1985
• He recorded a number of major hits including
  Lean on Me, Aint No Sunshine, Use Me, Just
  the Two of Us, Lovely Day and Grandmas Hands

Soul
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History of Soul.
Soul music has conquered the world in the last 50
years - growing from the raw, electric rhythms of
the black underclass, it is now a billion dollar
industry with RB and hip-hop dominating the
world's charts. It's been the soundtrack to some
of the most extraordinary social, political and
cultural shifts. And, together with the civil
rights movement, it has challenged the white
authority, helped breakdown segregation and
encouraged the fight for racial equality
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History of Soul.
In the 1960s, the most famous record labels
were Tamla Motown,  Stax and Atlantic Tamla
Motown was an all black record company set up by
Berry Gordy in Detroit.
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Characteristics of Soul.

• The main characteristics of Soul Music are
• - Gospel influenced vocals
• - Lyrical soulful melodies
• - Emphasis on the rhythm section
• - Large horn sections (trumpets, saxophones and
  trombones)
• Listen to the following excerpt and listen to the
  soulful, gospel-influenced singing as well as the
  prominent brass sections

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Characteristics of Soul.
Instruments typically found in Soul music would
be Electric Guitar Bass Guitar Piano Hammon
d Organ Drums Horn Section Keyboards Clavinet
Vocals
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Inside Motown Studios
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• Listen to the following excerpt and discuss the
  concepts you hear
• Use the following slide to help you identify
  concepts and write your answers on the
  whiteboards provided

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Does the song have different verses
choruses/sections?
How many beats are in the bar?
Rhythm/Tempo
Texture/ Structure/Form
Is the song Homophonic or Polyphonic?
How fast or slow is the piece?
Is the song in a Major or Minor key?
How loud/soft is this song/are there changes in
volume?
Timbre/Dynamics
Melody/Harmony
Do you hear harmony/unison?
What instruments/voices do you hear? How are they
singing?
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• Discuss your answers as a class and determine the
  correct concepts
• Complete the listening log in your Record of Work
  Book

My Girl The Temptations
My Girl
RB/Soul
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Homework
Understanding 1.1

• Write an entry for a blog which contains the
  following information about R B/Soul Music
• (At least) Three attributes (or key
  characteristics) of R B/Soul music
• One or more technologies that are essential to
  this genre
• A key innovator of R B/Soul Music
• Any pieces of music that you have listened to in
  class or out with class that have helped develop
  your understanding of this genre