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History of Jazz I
History of Jazz Vocab Part one
| Term | Defined |
|---|---|
| Barrel House or Honky Tonk | extremely percussive and rhythmic blues piano style. Came from the buildings where loggers or other laborers went for entertainment. |
| Be-Bop | Dominant jazz style of the 1940s, long melodic lines, complex rhythms and impressionistic harmonic patterns. Often ending on an upbeat |
| Blues | Started as vocal music. Important in all jazz styles. Three basic chorsd to harmonize melodies. |
| Boogie-Woogie | A blues piano style orginated by unschooled southern black pianists, recurring bass patterns. More folklike then ragtime. |
| Break | A point in the performance where the rhythmic accompaniment stops and the soloist continues |
| Call and Response | Solo music statement answered by an ensemble or other soloist. |
| Chord | A combination of musical tones sounded simultaneously. |
| Church Modes | arrangement of notes. Church modes refer to the scales orginally used to systematize early church music. |
| Concerto Grosso | Seen with Third Stream, Musical form of the European classical tradition, small groups playing against the full orchestra. |
| 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. |
| Density | Clusters of chords, often played in the lower register |
| Funky Jazz | Very rhythmic, blues and gospel influenced jazz |
| Fusion | The unuion or two or more styles into one: example ebing Afro-Cuban Jazz |
| Hard-Bop | Bebop played with more emphatic rhythm |
| 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 |
| Improvisation | Alteration or revision of the rhythmic harmonic and melodic potentialities of a composition. |
| Jazz | A way of playing musical repertory that defines and gives graphic examples of various aspects of that way of playing. |
| Minstrel Shows | Theatrical presentations by white showmen who took credit for the minstrel songs and dances they imitated. |
| Vaudville Shows | The terms used for variety shows early in the 20th century |
| Vibrato | A fluctuation of pitch on sustained notes |
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