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| has an unmistakable timbre with brilliant overtones. Most common brass instrument |
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| has a thin piercing sound. Standard component of the New Orleans jazz style..achieved greater renown during the swing era of the 1930’s. |
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| low pitched brass instrument. Allows player to glide from one note to another |
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| very low pitched. often used as a bass instrument because of its powerful volume. Supports the harmony and plays a basic rhythmic foundation |
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| part of the rhythm section.. primarily harmony. Provide harmony, bass, and percussion |
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| part of the rhythm section |
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| Pulse. Rhythm moving at a given steady rate, like your heartbeat. |
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| the speed of a piece of music. The rate at which the beat or pulse moves. |
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| 3 basic types of jazz tempos |
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Ballad tempo= slow tempo
Medium tempo= most popular in jazz, and goes at a medium speed...
Up tempo= fast tempo. |
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the organization of recurring pulses/beats into patterns.
-most common meter in music consists of 4 beats. |
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| a rhythmic unit lasting from one downbeat to the next. |
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Cadenza
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unaccompanied musical passage played by a soloist.
-this is used in the song: Armstrong- West End Blues. |
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Foundation Layers definition:
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continuous, unchanging patterns whose very repetition provides a framework for a musical piece
The bass plays a steady stream of evenly spaced notes. High above it, the drummer reinforces this pattern on the ride cymbal |
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| method of improvisation found in New Orleans jazz in which several instruments in the front line improvise simultaneously in a dense, polyphonic texture. |
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Call and Response
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A statement made by one musician is then answered by another, like in West End Blues.
African American slaves working in the fields would use it as a sort of communication between each other. Used in Miles Davis’s “So What” |
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Trading Fours
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where each musician trades 4 measures( can be more or less) with the drummer.
Saxophone..trumpet? |
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| the first degree of the scale, or the chord build on the first scale degree. Most basic form, home base. |
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| the most common scale in Western music. The pattern of whole and half steps WWHWWWH |
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| Is the simultaneous sending of 2 pitches. Like paints, hey can be combined to create different colors. |
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| Combination of 3 or more notes played simultaneously. |
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| Is the movement from chord to chord, this conveys a feeling of propulsion. |
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| A sound that is considered to be unstable. The quality of an unstable harmony that resolves to another chord. |
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Consonnance
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A chord that is at rest, or stable. The quality of harmony that'stable and doesn't need to resolve to another chord.
Gives a feel of moving the music forward. |
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| Complete music thought. much like a sentence in speech. |
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Half cadence
Full cadence
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Half Cadence- a complete phrase that sounds unresolved
Full Cadence- a complete phrase that ends with a sense of resolution. Much like the period at the end of a sentence |
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| What two elements combine to create song form... |
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| a musical/poetic form in African American culture, created 1900 and widely influential around the world. Marked by its unusual 3 line stanza. It became a musical form through its distinctive chord progression in the accompaniment to ballads. The blues is a personal window into the singer’s mind which matched the mood of the time. |
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| Attentive white performers studied their black counterparts, adopting their comedic and dance styles and accompanying themselves on the banjo. a type of song created by professional songwriters especially in the period of the 1920’s to the 1960’s |
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| a single statement of the harmonic and rhythmic jazz. The repeated portion of a popular song, often introduced by its verse |
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| A note played in the middle of the beat, diving the beat. |
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| the technique of speeding up and slowing down at the musicians desire. |
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