Transcript deliberate shifts of accent so that it conflicts with the steady beat.

Chapter 4
Section 4 & 5
Syncopation
• Syncopation- deliberate shifts of accent
so that it conflicts with the steady beat.
• Emphasizes the weak beats
• Sometimes feels imbalanced
Try Your Own Syncopated Beat
• Divide class
• One group clap on beat, one group clap off
beat.
• Switch
• *Partner work*
Ragtime
• Started as a dance form that appeared in
the 19th century.
• Had catchy, syncopated melody set
against a moving bass emphasizing a
steady beat in duple meter.
• Unlike most jazz music (which is
improvised), ragtime music was written
down.
• Some great rag pianists and
composers include Scott Joplin, Jelly
Roll Morton, and Eubie Blake.
Scott Joplin
• One of the best known
ragtime composers in
history
• Born in Texarkana, Texas
• Taught himself piano as a
child
• Published his first
collection of “rags” in
1899
• Wrote more than 50 rags,
waltzes, and marches for
piano
• Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag”
(published in 1899) sold a
Rhythmic Patterns of Cameroon
• The Bamileke people have many traditions of
using rhythm in their music.
• They use music to accompany their Lali or
warrior dance.
• The dances celebrate ability and skill in battle,
self confidence and manliness.
• They are performed by the Menne people, a sub
group of the Bamileke people.
• Listen to CD 3 #17 Lali
• Watch the video of the Lali dance.
Maple Leaf Rag
CD 3 #18 “Maple
Leaf Rag”
Creative Rhythms
• Things like STOMP
• Rhythms with a creative twist
• Eyes for imaginative showmanship
Blue Man Group
• Dressed in black
showing only blue
hands and bald, blue
and earless heads
• Never sing or say a
word
• Use humor and
unusual instruments
made of barrels, piano
soundboards, and
pipes
• Make simple musical
ideas sound complex,
often by using
Subdivisions
• Subdividing is like math
• Like folding a piece of paper in half twice
gives you four equal rectangles,
subdividing a beat gives you beats of
equal length.
• Try it
• CD 3 #19 “Above”
• Watch and listen to Blue Man Group