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Rock N Roll and R N B

The document provides an overview of the GCSE Music AQA syllabus strand covering popular music of the 20th and 21st centuries, including blues, rock music, hip-hop, musical theatre, and film music. It gives more details on various genres like blues, rock music, and hip-hop, describing their origins, characteristic styles, and influential artists. The document also discusses how rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll music relate to the five areas of study in GCSE Music including rhythm, harmony, texture, timbre and dynamics, and structure.

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Rock N Roll and R N B

The document provides an overview of the GCSE Music AQA syllabus strand covering popular music of the 20th and 21st centuries, including blues, rock music, hip-hop, musical theatre, and film music. It gives more details on various genres like blues, rock music, and hip-hop, describing their origins, characteristic styles, and influential artists. The document also discusses how rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll music relate to the five areas of study in GCSE Music including rhythm, harmony, texture, timbre and dynamics, and structure.

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GCSE Music AQA

Strand of learning:

POPULAR MUSIC OF THE 2OTH AND


21ST CENTURIES
Topics covered...
• Blues
• Popular music of the 1960s
• British popular music in the 1960s
• Rock music
• Hip-hop
• Musical theatre
• Film Music
In a bit more detail
Blues • Group performance in class
• 12 bar blues
• Blues notes
• Rhythm Rock music
• Instrumental and vocal techniques • Psychedelic rock
• Group performance in class • Progressive rock
• Hard rock
• Punk rock
Popular music of the 1960s Hip-hop
• Rhythm’n’blues [R’n’B] • DJs
• Rock’n’roll • Rapping
• Gospel and soul • culture
• Pop ballads • techniques
• Folk music Musical theatre
• Popular song form • Solos, duets, ensembles and choruses
British popular music in the 1960s • Detailed look at famous musicals
• The Beatles Film Music
• The Who • Conventions]
• The Rolling Stones • leitmotifs
WALT: Popular Music
at the start of the 1960s
LESSON OUTCOME:

• To have learnt the origins of Rhythm’n’blues


and Rock’n’roll through listening and
analysing music
• To have learnt a 12 bar blues on keyboards
Rhythm’n’blues & Rock’n’roll
• Pop musicians developed new styles of music in the 1960s
• based their ideas of 1950s music
The 2 most important and influential styles of music were:

Rock ’n’ roll features:


Rhythm ’n’ blues features:
• Was a fusion of R’n’B
• Originated in Clubs and and country and western
dance halls [Chicago] music
• Mixed vocal styles – gospel
• Was energetic, fast, loud
and city-blues
• used electric guitars and and used syncopated
amplifiers rhythms
• Based on 12 bar Blues • Most important style to
structure come out of the 1950s
• Faster, louder, tighter rhythms
1950s – Rock’n’roll artists
Characteristics: raw, energetic, based on 12 bar
blues structure, fast tempo, fun lyrics.
3 major artists of the decade…

Chuck Berry 1926 -


•Most important black artist in rock and roll
•First songwriter/performer in 1955
•1st rock ‘n’ roller to write words that appealed to both
Black and white audiences

One of his most memorable songs: ‘No particular place to go’


Bill Haley 1927 [1924] - 1981
Apparently for publicity purposes in the 1950s,
he altered his year of birth!

•Some of his most famous songs include:


‘Shake, Rattle and Roll’, ‘rock around the clock’.

Elvis Presley
‘The King’
1935 - 1977
•The best selling solo artist In U.S. History
•Starred in many Hollywood films such as
Love Me Tender and Jail House Rock
Famous songs include: ‘All Shook up’, ‘little less
conversation’, ‘Love me tender’ and ‘Hound dog’
Elvis the Pelvis
Hound Dog
Elvis Presley
C C C C

F F C C

G F C G

12 bar blues structure using chords I, IV, V


Rhythmic device: Uses syncopated rhythm in the bass line
Chords and triads
Key of C major
How do Rhythm’n’blues And Rock’n’roll
relate to the 5AoS?
AoS1: Rhythm and metre
• S4/4 metre
• uses syncopation – especially in the bass line [keeps it energetic]
• Has an ‘off-beat’ feel
• Driving, tighter, energetic rhythms
AoS2: Harmony and tonality
• Uses 12 – bar blues
• Uses Blues notes – chromatics, flattened by a semitone
• Based on chords I, IV, V
• Can used V7 chords
• these chords are known as diatonic

AoS3: Texture and melody


• Improvised instrumental parts
• Thicker texture than blues
AoS4: Timbre and dynamics
• Electric guitars, amplifiers, drum kit, vocals
• Loud [forte] and energetic
AoS5: Structure and form
• 12 bar blues structure
walt

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