History of Jazz Vocab Part one
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| Barrel House or Honky Tonk | extremely percussive and rhythmic blues piano style. Came from the buildings where loggers or other laborers went for entertainment.
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| Be-Bop | Dominant jazz style of the 1940s, long melodic lines, complex rhythms and impressionistic harmonic patterns. Often ending on an upbeat
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| Blues | Started as vocal music. Important in all jazz styles. Three basic chorsd to harmonize melodies.
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| Boogie-Woogie | A blues piano style orginated by unschooled southern black pianists, recurring bass patterns. More folklike then ragtime.
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| Break | A point in the performance where the rhythmic accompaniment stops and the soloist continues
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| Call and Response | Solo music statement answered by an ensemble or other soloist.
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| Chord | A combination of musical tones sounded simultaneously.
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| Church Modes | arrangement of notes. Church modes refer to the scales orginally used to systematize early church music.
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| Concerto Grosso | Seen with Third Stream, Musical form of the European classical tradition, small groups playing against the full orchestra.
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| Cool Jazz | Jazz style of the 1940s and early 1950s featuring rhythms and syncopations more subtle than those of Bebop. Atonal souds and melodies similar to those of contemporary concert music.
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| Density | Clusters of chords, often played in the lower register
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| Funky Jazz | Very rhythmic, blues and gospel influenced jazz
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| Fusion | The unuion or two or more styles into one: example ebing Afro-Cuban Jazz
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| Hard-Bop | Bebop played with more emphatic rhythm
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| Impressionistic | Music that suggests rather than states, using various chord combinations and other musical devices to provide a sense of atmosphere without struct attention to structure
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| Improvisation | Alteration or revision of the rhythmic harmonic and melodic potentialities of a composition.
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| Jazz | A way of playing musical repertory that defines and gives graphic examples of various aspects of that way of playing.
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| Minstrel Shows | Theatrical presentations by white showmen who took credit for the minstrel songs and dances they imitated.
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| Vaudville Shows | The terms used for variety shows early in the 20th century
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| Vibrato | A fluctuation of pitch on sustained notes
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