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| Musical style which stresses tone color, atmosphere, and fluidity |
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| Musical style marked by emtional restraint, balance, adn clarity, inspired by the forms and stylistic features of 18th century music |
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| Evocation of primitive power through insistent rhythms and percussive sounds |
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| Musical style stressing intense, subjective emotion and harsh dissonance |
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| Method of composing that uses an ordered group of musical elements to organize rhythm, dynamics, and tone color, as well as pitch |
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| Combination of two chords sounded at the same time |
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| Chord made up of tomes only a half step or a whole step apart |
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| Use of to or more contrasting and independent rhythms at the same time |
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| absense of tonaliy, or key, characteristic of much music of the twentieth and early twenty-first century |
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| Approach to pitch organization using two or more keys at one time |
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| Style of composed piano music, generally in duple meter with a ,moderate march tempo, in which the pianist's right hand plays a highly syncopated melody while the left hand maintains the beat with an "oom-pah" accompaniment. This was developed primarily by African American pianists and flourised from the 1890s to about 1915. |
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| Term reffering to both a style of performance and to a form; an early source of jazz, characteried by flattened or "blue" notes in the scale; vocal blues consist of 3-line stanzas in the form a a' b. |
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| Jazz style in which the front line, or melodic instruments, improvize several contrasting melodic lines at once, supported by a rhythm section that clearly marks the beat and provides a background of chords; usually based on a march or church melody, a ragtime piece, a popular song, or 12-bar blues. |
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| Vocalization of a melodic line with nonsense syllables, used in jazz |
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| Jazz style that was developed in the 1920s and flourished in the between 1935-1945, played mainly by "big-bands". Also, verb for what jazz performers do so when they combine a steady beat and precision with a lilt, a sense of relazation, and vitality. |
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| Complex jazz style. usually for small groups, developed in the 1940s and meant for attentice listening rather than dancing. |
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| Any instrument- such as flute or trumpet- whose sound is generated by a vibrating column of air. |
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| Instrument- such as a harp or lute- whose sound is generated by a stretched string |
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| Instrument- such as bells, a gong, a scraper, a rattle, or a xylophone- whose sound is fenerated by the instrument's on material (no tenstion is applied) |
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| Instrument- basically a drum- whose sound is generated by a stretched skin or another membrane. |
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