jazz stuff Flashcards
trumpet player; one of the most innovative figures in the history of jazz. worked with many different people before he found his style
miles davis
one of miles davis’s biggest hits, a blend of jazz with rock fusion
bitches brew
electric guitar, bass, and 2 electric keyboards in addition to regular jazz drums, acoustic bass, and augmented percussion. repetitive rocklike rhythms
rhythm section
vocal music with a hard driving beat often featuring electric guitar accompaniment and heavily amplified sound
rock
cry wail growl, and use of guttural sounds as well as falsetto and nonsense syllables
vocal style of rock music
12 bar blues strophic, verse chorus form
form melody harmony of rock
most rock quadruple meter 4/4 with strong accents on the second and four beats
rhythm of rock music
shuffle groove strophic 12 bar blues 3 chords stop time
chuck berry “school day”
instruments that provide the basic accompaniment strike a single note on a downbeat of a measure together and then remain silent for the rest of the measure
stop time
an art form that combines rhythm speech patterns with hip hop
rap
at la par, second movement
mixes rhythms of cuban popular dance with atonal harmonies
postmodern
tania leon
a musical style in which modern and traditional elements are combined
postmodernism
a technique by which a unit of music is sent to a synthesizer and repeated as many times as desired
looping
the composer writes parts for many different instrument all in the same key, meter and tempo so that any combination can be played at the same time. may be triggered by actions location danger or other criteria
layering
a composer write music with multiple possible options depending on the choices the players make
branching
