The BeatTips Manual: by Amir Said

Author:Amir Said
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Superchamp, Inc.
Published: 2016-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 11 Map of the Development of the African (Black) Music Tradition

Chapter 10

Flash Battled Mozart at the Fever, and Mozart Got Burned

The Hip Hop/Rap Music and Beatmaking

Traditions, Its Theory, and How It Does and

Doesn't Jive with the Western Classical Music

Tradition and Its Theory

In the field of music, perhaps more than in any other field, the black man's preeminence was acknowledged by the nation...His contributions not only made a decisive impact on the existing style of music in the western tradition, but also gave birth to a new style of music. –Eileen Southern

Much African music features rhythmic patterns that make it sound almost childishly simple, but since nobody is called upon to write them down or read them the music is labeled "primitive." –Christopher Small, Music, Society, Education

Leonard Bernstein spent several summers staging operettas with friends, foreshadowing his great interest in theater. During the summer of 1934, for example, they staged a version of Bizet's Carmen with sexes reversed in the roles and lyrics full of local jokes. In the fall of 1935 he entered Harvard, where he majored in music, and began piano instruction with one of Boston's finest teachers, Heinrich Gebhard. His teachers at Harvard included Edward Burlingame Hill for orchestration, A. Tillman Merritt for harmony and counterpoint, and Walter Piston for counterpoint and fugue. Another professor who influenced Bernstein was David Prall of the philosophy department.

–Paul R. Laird

When I knew him, Jelly still had a whorehouse complex—sang dirty songs and thought they were great. I remember inviting him to dinner one evening after a rehearsal or recording date and having him decline because he had two suckers waiting for him down the street. He was a shark all right! Often he and I used to rehearse together at the Melrose office. Morton was a tremendous worker. If he was working on something, he would sit there for four or five hours at a stretch.

–Volly DeFault, Chicago clarinetist and friend of pianist Jelly Roll Morton, the first serious composer of jazz.

Many saw him [Jelly Roll Morton] as an anachronism, an embarrassing holdover from the distant days of New Orleans when what would become jazz music was inextricably bound up with brothels, card cheats, and the tall tales of the carny.

–Marshall Bowden

A work of art is not and cannot ever be free from the conditioning imposed by history, class and market conditions We shall judge him [the artist] by what he makes of the conditions of his time and place in the continuum of history, but we shall not ignore those conditions. –Gerald Moore

When ragtime pianists from all over the country gathered for the Ragtime Championship of the World Competition held at Tammany Hall in New York City on January 23, 1900, it was Ernest Hogan's song that was recommended for the final test. The three pianists who had reached the semifinals were asked to demonstrate their skill in ragging a song by playing All Coons Look Alike to Me for two minutes. –Eileen Southern

Man, listen.. .Motherfuckers wasn't trying to

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