Music Overviews - Dance

1) Minuet

• Usually 3/4 - Elegant
  
• Meduim Tempo
• Carried over to classical

2) Sarabande

• Usually 3/4
• Slower and serious
• Second beat stressed
• Oranaments

3) Gavotte

• Usually 2/2
• Quick but stately
• Anacrusis, Simple with lots of sequences

4) Gigue

• Really lively
• Usually 6/8
• Came at the end

• USUALLY IN BINARY BUT REPEATED (AABB)
• OCASSIONALLY THEY USED TURNARY (ABA)
• CONTRASTING
• OBVIOUS CADENCE
• MAIN LINE PLAYED BY STRINGS
• BASS/HARMONY PLAYED BY A PIANO INSTRUMENT
• FLUTES, OBOES, BASSOONS, HORNS SOMETIMES HEARD
• SIZE OF ORCHESTRA DEPENDED ON AMOUNT OF MONEY FROM PATRON

Polka

• Polka 1830 - More energy
• More jerkier
• Usually 2/4
• Binary or Turnary
• Fancy Orchestral Effects

Started in Vienna

Usually 3/4 - Oom Cha Cha, Oom Cha Cha - Mainly found in the accompanying part

• Steady and constant beat
• Mainly Chords I, IV, V
• Speed of chords - Harmonic Rhythm
• Appoggiaturas and chromatic notes to spice it up

• Mainly played by large orchestreas - Romantic
• Percussion was very vaired
• Waltzes used in ballrooms

'Usually 4/4 and 120bpm to make it easy to dance to

Most had a hook

• Rap grew out of Jamaican Reggae
• Rap influenced Hip Hop

Club Styles

• Techno - Fast, hard beat, 130 - 150bpm, no voices, mechanical and electronic
• Jungle - Mega fast tempo, 170bpm, drum-based, short fast notes 'break beats'
• Drum'n'bass - Fusion of Jazz and Funk - very heavy on drums and bass
• UK Garage - Ideas from jungle, drum'n'bass and modern rhythms. Vocals used like percussion
• Trance - Very repetitive, uses echoes. Slow chord changes over fast beat
• Ambient - Jazzy chilled

• Mixing - Ministry of sound (continous)
• Scratching
  
• Sampling - Snipets of other sounds
  
• Looping - Repeated at some pitch
  
• Digital Effects
• Quanitising - Move everything
  
• Sequences - Repeated at different pitch
  
• Remixing - Speading up etc

• Clave - Hitting two sticks together called claves to create a rhythm - The thing you tap your foot to
• Repeated patterns - Maracas, Bongos
• Call and response
• Mainly Primary Chords
• Syncopation
• Jazz Chords - 7ths, 9ths with added notes (School duet final chord)
• Imitation
• Walking bass lines
• Comping - Playing chords rhythmically

Intro, Verse, Montuno (Inprovises chorus), Mambo, Montuno, Ending

Samba

• Brazilian
• 2/4 or 4/4
• Major
• Lots of percussion
• Carnivals
• Samba whistle in charge

Tango

• **** dance from Argentina
• 2/4 or 4/4