Lesson 77 of 84 · Music History
⭐ 30 XP🎻 Music History HallThe Blues: Deep South Origins (Part 3)
Women in music history were often overlooked: Hildegard von Bingen, Clara Schumann, and Florence Price made extraordinary contributions.
🎯 Your mission
Find what made this music change everything.
⚡ The twist
Every musician you love stole from someone else first.
Listen for this
🎧 What instruments are NOT here that we'd hear today?
Artist Spotlight
🌟 Louis Armstrong invented modern jazz singing by accident — he dropped his lyric sheet on stage.
Mind = Blown
🤯 Beethoven's 9th symphony is the song the European Union plays for itself.
Learn about the blues: deep south origins (part 3): understand how recording technology changed music
What You'll Learn
Women in music history were often overlooked: Hildegard von Bingen, Clara Schumann, and Florence Price made extraordinary contributions.
Understand how recording technology changed music
Identify contributions of women in music history
Notes on the Staff
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Check Your Understanding
Question 1 of 3
Who is known as the 'Father of the Symphony'?
Where you hear this in real life
Today's pop hit borrows from 70 years of music history without anyone noticing.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Listen to one song from before your parents were born this week.
For the dinner table
“Tell me about the music you loved when you were my age.”
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