The Blues: Deep South Origins

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🎵 Stage Brief #13

Electronic music started with early synthesizers in the 1960s.

🎯 Your mission

Steal one trick from a master. Use it your way.

⚡ The twist

Every musician you love stole from someone else first.

What you'll learn

Electronic music started with early synthesizers in the 1960s. Today, EDM festivals draw hundreds of thousands of fans.

Remember

🎧 Listen

Listen for this

🎧 Listen for what was new at the time — not what sounds normal today.

🎼 Notes on the staff

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🌟 Artist spotlight

🌟 Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer, wrote about computers playing music in 1843.

🤯 Mind = blown

🤯 Hip-hop was invented at one party in the Bronx in 1973.

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Who is known as the 'Father of the Symphony'?

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What famous work did Beethoven compose while losing his hearing?

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What genre originated in New Orleans around 1900?

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