Unit VI Louisiana's Musical Landscape
Lesson 1 Music Around the State: Sound and Place

Musical Elements Chart - Page 2

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Music Elements Selections
   Style: Mardi Gras Indian
Title: Let's Go Get 'Em
Artist: Bo Dollis and
Monk Boudreaux		 Style: Country
Title: Wondering
Artist: Webb Pierce		 Style:                    
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Instrumentation Tuba
Drums, Shakers, Cowbell
Trumpets
Trombone
Saxophone
Call-and-Response Vocals
 		Steel Guitar
Mandolin
Acoustic & Electric Guitar
Fiddle
Upright String Bass
Male Vocal Solo
 		                                         
Lyrics/Language English. Songs tells about
the New Orleans Mardi
Gras Indians' encounters
with one another.		 English. Broken-hearted
love song by one who will
never forget his true love.		                                          
Tempo Fast (allegro).


 Slow (largo).


 		                                         
Dynamics Loud all the time, intensity
builds to the
end of the song.		 Soft pensive vocals,
smooth instrumentals. 		                                         
Melody Simple melody with lots of
improvisation by vocalists
and instrumentalists. 		Solo vocal sings verse
and refrain followed by
instrumental breaks. 		                                         
Rhythm Syncopated march -
duple meter (in 2).
Poly-rhythmic (many
rhythms at once). 		Waltz - triple meter (in 3).                                          

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