BEGINNING OF JAZZ

KHADIJAH ZAMAN REG#1429-314001

BS BIOTECHNOLOGY

CONTENTS•ABSTRACTS•ACKNOWLEDGEMENT•DEDICATION•INTRODUCTION•BEGINNING OF JAZZ•VOICE OF NEGRO MUSIC•MUSICAL HYBRID•STYLES OF MUSIC•DRUMS•BLUES•MARCHES•RAGTIMA•BRASS BAND•VOCABULARY•CONCLUSION•REFERENCES

ABSTRACTSJAZZ music roots deeply lies in Negro folk singing. They play different songs with the help of crude instruments and different voices like songs of work, play, hope, peddlers crying , Sabbath praise and many more they adopt their culture and also rhythms from African heritage too, as they were familiar of drumming styles. different styles of music and different musical instruments were used in that era. Ragtime ,marches, blues, brass brand were the latest styles of music. Early musician also used different voices but unfamiliar with the word jazz. Jazz was one latest type of music and a profound expression of the Negro soul.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

*We are thankful to our respected teacher Mrs.UZMA ARSHAD who gave us opportunity to work on this project.

*All praises and Thanks to Almighty Allah. He is the most Merciful who best owed us the potential, ability and opportunity to work on this project.

WE DEDICATE THIS PROJECT TO OUR RESPECTED

ENGLISH TEACHER MAM.UZMA ARSHAD AND

TO OUR CLASS.

YASIR MIRAJ REG#1411-214010

BBA

The Author MR.DENNIS AKSEY introduced this topic to us. He was born in Texas had many experience as a publisher and as a magazine editor. His enthusiastic interest in the most distinctively American music marks him as a “jazz buff” .In the easy , He explains the early origins of jazz and defines its special musical qualities. He was very fond of jazz music and with all His knowledge he let us knows its beginning and its importance with the passage of time.

JAZZ is the type of music which begin with the negro folk songs .Negro culture is the origin of jazz in the music world. They used different music instrument which is made of boxes, barrels and brooms. They also used horns to play different sounds. Songs are normally related to their culture, calling one and other names, Sabbath praise ..As they were unfamiliar of the music rules so they are not capable of introducing any musical instruments and use of it. Louis Armstrong (An American Negro musician ) bring revolution by introducing a new instrument trumpet instead of horn.Negro musician also followed African heritage, as they were also keen about music and drums. About 1920, with different changing appeared in the music the jazz was one of the important music type and familiar to the world.

VOICE OF NEGRO MUSICIANThe Negro voices were his principal meaning of musical expression. Songs of work, play , trouble, hope, rose on rich peddlers crying their wares to the countryside, from work gangs on the railroads, from families gathered at the day end to sing away their weariness, churches singing with the sound of Sabbath praise. These all were the voices of Negro musicians and they play it with thehelp of horns.

MAHNOOR MALIKREG#1429-314571

BS BIOTECHNOLOGY

MUSIC HYBRIDNegro folk, African musician and all the early musicians used different voices like: church hymns, polkas, folk songs, marches, songs of hope, work, play, trouble, ragtime ,blues even sound of railroad enter into their music. The mixture of these voices resulted a musical hybrid—a mixture that was vigorous, native and unmistakably new.

STYLES OF MUSICThere were many different styles used in that era. First, music style of the Negro music was the sound they play and transferred to the horns. Trumpet was then new addition to it.Then, the Negro adopt African culture drumming style. Their jazz music got most by the ragtime, blues, marches and brass brand. Every music has it own significant some carry sad poetry, some carry joy of happiness, some are for relief , some are to cry.

Drums are the member of percussion group of Musical instrument. Negro build much of their music over the rhythms of African drums. As drumming style is Ghana tradition in Africa. The drum is the oldest known instrument in the world dating back to 4000 BC in Egypt in the northeast corner of Africa. It is present throughout every region of Africa playing different roles amongst the various peoples.

SANA ARSHADREG#1429-314105

BS BIOTECHNOLOGY

Blues is a genre and musical form that originated in African and American communities in the deep Southof the United States around the end of the 19th century. The genre is a fusion of traditional African music and European folk music. The blues were basically vocal music,requiring no accompaniment than a guitar or a harmonica, and they spoke a language of song which the Negro already understood.

A march, as a musical genre, is a piece of music with a strong regular rhythm which in origin was expressly written for marching to and most frequently performed by amilitary band. 

Ragtime was essentially a piano music, It is a musical genre that enjoyed its peak popularity between 1895 and 1918. It was also a modification of the march. Ragtime originated in African American music in the late 19th century and descended from the jigs and march music played by African and American referred to as "jig piano" or "piano thumping.

NISMA RAUFREG#1429-314003

BS BIOTECHNOLOGY

BRASS BRANDThe crudeness disappeared from the playing of brass brand, and these too become popular fixture in the community life of southern Negro the bandsmen were called upon to play at all sorts of social events. They played for dances, weddings, picnics, parades, or sometimes simply for sheer of love of hearing the new voices that their horns gave them.

VOCABULARYWORDS MEANING

Sabbath praise Lord’s day

Profound

Philosophical

Heritage Ancestry

Enthusiastic Passionate

Distinctively Individually

Peddler Vendor

Weariness Fatigue

Native hereditary

Percussion Collision

Genre Category

Fixture Component

Parade Demonstration

Accompaniment

Accessory

Jazz begin its journey from the Negro folk . It never be remain the only part of it. African heritage included in itand gradually with the passage of time poured into marches, ragtime, blues and last but never least to remove all thecrudeness take a shape of brass brand. Jazz become so much popular and one of the famous part of music till known and enjoyed by everyone, but it always represent the expression of Negro soul.

REFERENCES

•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Africa•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragtime•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues•PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH (WilliamR.Slager) (Russel B.Nye)