Characters in Shakespeare’s plays speak of the silent “music of the spheres” or the harmonious vibrations of the planets.

6.3 Music Beyond the Concert Hall Discuss the emergence and impact of various forms of popular music, including folk, jazz, blues, gospel, rock and roll, hip-hop, sound tracks.

• Folk Songs • The Spiritual and Gospel Music • Ragtime • Jazz • Blues • Popular Songs • Hip-Hop and Rap • What We Listen to Today

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Discussion Points: • One way of thinking of music is that it is the shape

given to sound. At different points in history, a number of concepts have challenged this idea. • The Greeks invented the Aeolian Harp and we have

wind chimes. Characters in Shakespeare’s plays speak of the silent “music of the spheres” or the harmonious vibrations of the planets. Avant-garde composers have challenged the assumptions we have of what is music and what is not. • At what point does sound (or silence) cease to be

music? Can music exist without human intent?

P.S. You can see and listen here to an Aeolian Harp in San Francisco, at the end of Pier 152

Music Beyond the Concert Hall 6.3 Various forms of popular music, including folk, jazz, blues, gospel, rock

and roll, and hip-hop. (2 of 13)

• Folk Songs • Unlike “art” songs

• Requires no formal training • Does not subscribe to rigid forms or rules

• 1960s folk revival • Recounted real events • Celebrated rogues and outlaws • Fought for social causes • Bob Dylan’s music raised folk to high

art.

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Pete Seeger

Bob Dylan, Joan Baez.

FOLK SONGS There are few esthetic rules,

but folk songs endure. They give a Sense of Group identity

Types of folk songs: 1. Commemorative 2. Work 3. Accumulation 4. Scoundrel 5. Narrative.

Rye Whiskey – scoundrel

I’ve been working on the railroad

Old McDonald Had a Farm – accumulation song

Folk song Revival in 1960s Dylan-Times Are A-Changing

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Barbara Allen Sung by Emmy Rossum

Barbara Allen, sung by Emmy Lou Harris