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What is music?
Definition
History of the Dave Brubeck
College yrs
Post life after college
Foundations of music
Styles (Dave Brubeck Octet)
Listening to changes in music
Understanding the importance of music
• Things to think about
– A musical instrument
– Vocals
– Sheet Music
– Traditions
• An art of sound in time that expresses ideas
and emotions in significant forms through the
elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and
color.
• Is a Noun
• Pronounced [myoo-zik]
• born on December 6th, 1920 in Concord, CA
• Youngest of 3 children
• Mother taught him how to play the Piano
• Hated studying classical music
• Never learned to read sheet music
• moved to a ranch in the foothills of the Sierras
near Ione, California at age 11
• Only played music because he enjoyed it
• Had no intention to become a professional
musician
• Wanted to pursue being a cattleman as a career
• Veterinary science was first choice in career,
but still wanted to be a rancher.
• Decided to try music out as a career
• Almost expelled out of college for cheating,
since he still never learned how to read music
• Graduated by teaching piano lessons from the
University of the Pacific
• Played in Jazz clubs 6 nights a week
• Never performed anything rehearsed
• Listened to campus radio and met his wife
Iola Maria Whitlock
• Got married during senior year in college
• Studied under Composer Darrius
Millhaud
• Met all the other members for the
Dave Brubeck Octet in 1949
Foot Taps
4 taps
2 taps
1 tap
½ foot tap
¼ foot tap
• Bass clef
– Mostly used for instruments that play
lower notes
– examples: Stand up Bass, piano (mostly
Left hand)
• Treble clef
– Instruments that play medium to higher
pitches
– Examples: Alto Saxophone, piano (Mostly
right hand)
Major Scale
- Sounds Happy
C
D
Minor Scale
- Sounds sad
A
B
E
C
F
D
G
E
A
F
B
G
C
A
• Frequencies
– Low
– High
• Tuning
– Sharp
– Flat
• Main styles
– Hybrid Jazz with various time signatures
– irregular style of beats and rhythm
• Time out Album
– Blue Rondo à la Turk
– Take Five
– Kathy's Waltz
– Strange Meadow Lark
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Introduction
Verse
Bridge
Chorus
Transition
Solo
Coda
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Loud
Double the volume of Loud
Extremely loud
Quiet
Medium Quiet
Medium Loud
Soft Quiet
Progressively Louder
Click on the speaker to
start music
Click on the speaker to
start music
Click on the speaker to
start music
• Music is all around the world (Culture)
• Music is a part of something you do everyday
• Key elements of music are how music is
defined (theory)
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2010.
Hedrick, Smith. "Rediscovering Dave Brubeck." The Man, Jazz Goes to College. PBS,
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http://www.pbs.org/brubeck/theMan/jazzGoesToCollege.htm
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Time Signatures, Polyrhythm’s and Polytonality (2010): n. pag. Web. 23 Sep 2010.
http://www.pbs.org/brubeck/theMusic/davesStyle.htm
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