History of Jazz Vocab II
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| Neo-Gospel or Soul Jazz | Churchlike in concept. Relatively simple in melody and harmony.
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| Pentantonic Scale | Five note scale
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| Polyphonic | Music that combines several simultaneous, individual melodies
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| Prebop | an out-growth of swing music, but more complex. A forerunner of bebop
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| Progressive | Atonal jazz with many rhythms going on at the same time
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| Quartal | Chords built using the interval of a fourth
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| Ragtime | The crystallization of early American black music into a formal concept. Syncopation, improvisation, and Euro. classical techniques.
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| Repertory | A collection of songs that a player or group is prepared to perform
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| Rondo | A form used in European symphonic style, a theme is retured to in its orginal key after suborinate themes are introduced
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| Scat | no words, voices used to make all the sounds
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| Secular | Non-religious matters or groups
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| Sluring | Sliding from one note to another- a feature of blues singing
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| Sonarities | Harmonious sounds
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| Soul Jazz | The essence of feelings and attitudes orginating in the black communities of the US.
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| Spirtuals | Religious feelings and yearnings of American slaves expressed through music
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| Swing | Dominant jazz style of the 1930s, heavy accents
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| Syncopation | Displacement of teh normal accent of beats within a given measaure of music by the addition of unexpected accents
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| Syntax | Rules governing phrases and sentences can be constructed. Creating distinctive musical language
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| Tonal Mass | Clusters of notes through the orchestra, played simultaneously
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| 12- Tone technique | A 20th century method of composition devised by Schoenberg
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