jazz assignment

Length for Part 2: 500-word minimum (2 pages, double-spaced, 12-point font, 1-inch margins)

Listen to Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven perform “Wild Man Blues”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO3k-S_pqK4

Part 1:  Make a song outline using time markers to indicate the beginning of each new section. Use the song outlines I have provided on blackboard as a model. In your outline, use time markers to indicate the start of each new section and solo.

Part 2: Write an interpretive analysis of the music, using the musical terminology we have been using to explain what you hear. Use time markers to indicate what you’re hearing in the music. You will be graded not on whether all your observations are correct, but on how specific you are. Some things you can address:

• What stylistic elements of New Orleans-style jazz do you hear in this song?
• Describe the cornet solo by Louis Armstrong and/or the clarinet solo by Johnny Dodds using musical terminology.
• How do the band members musically interact with each other?
• What stylistic elements of African American music do you hear in this song?