Popular Music Styles

Popular Music Styles National 4 & 5Pop MusicA style of popular music played by a group of musicians.

RockA style of popular music with a heavy, driving beat. Usually features electric guitar, bass guitar and drum kit.

Rock n Roll1950s American music which grew from the combined styles ofjazz, blues, gospel and country.

RagtimeA popular style of American music from the 1900s written mostly for Piano

Lively syncopated melodies with a steady vamp like left hand accompaniment.Syncopation is when the accent is off the main beat. Vamp is when there is a Bass note played followed by the chord sounds like oom-cha.

Main composer of Ragtime was Scott Joplin.

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JazzAt first this was music created by black Americans in the early 20th century.Jazz music is also an umbrella term for a number of other styles

SwingA jazz style which started in the 1930s and was performed bya big band.The numbers and types of instruments in the big bands increased during this period, through the influence of swing.

Glenn Miller was one of the leading figures in swing music.

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