Terms, Tune names, Album Names, ETC. Flashcards
To get a B or Higher.
Syncopation
Placement of an accent slightly before or after the beat.
Stop time
When the band stops playing usually to feature a soloist.
Brass Bands
Groups of Jazz bands back in the early times of Jazz that were made of only brass instruments.
Obbligato
In classical music obbligato usually describes a musical line that is in some way indispensable in performance.
Blues
An old style of Jazz that followed the blues chord progression and always had blues notes mixed.
Bebop
A fast paced style of Jazz that was created to keep the old players from playing with the new ones.
“Kind of Blue”
Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released on August 17, 1959, by Columbia Records.
Polyrhthm
A song with multiple Rythms
Half Step
Moving up or down on a chromatic scale. (Also known as adding a sharp or flat to a note)
Trumpet
A bright sounding brass instrument. It has the ability to use mutes.
Harmon Mute
A mute for brass instruments that can have be played with or without a stem. Also know as the wha wha mute
Plunger Mute
A mute where they use the end of a plunger to change the sound of their brass instrument.
Banjo
The string instrument used in Jazz. For a long, it was used to provide background chords and even keep time.
Hot Five
One of the bands that played under Louise Armstrong. It had 5 members.
Soprano Saxophone
A saxophone shaped like a clarinet that is higher pitched and brighter than an alto sax.
Rubato
Free flowing
Improvision
Improvisation is an important aspect of jazz. Basically, improvisation is composing on the spot and coming up with melodies off the top of one’s head.
Solo Breaks
A jazz term that instructs a lead player or rhythm section member to play an improvised solo cadenza for one or two measures (sometimes abbreviated as “break”), without any accompaniment
Harmony
Motion
Chicago Styles
Chicago style, approach to jazz group instrumental playing that developed in Chicago during the 1920s and moved to New York City in the ’30s, being preserved in the music known as Dixieland.
Swing
A type of Jazz from the 30’s involving a steady beat.
Meter
The type of grouping of beats
Modal
musical modes rather than chord progressions as a harmonic framework.
Octave
The relationship between the bottom “do” and the top “do,” the first and eighth steps of the scale
Blue Note
A blue note is a note lowered to the minor 3rd
Rhythm Changes
refers to the chord progression occurring in George Gershwin’s song “I Got Rhythm”. This pattern, “one of the most common vehicles for improvisation,”[1] forms the basis of countless (usually uptempo) jazz compositions, was popular with swing-era musicians.
Bridge
A contrast of sounds from the chorus
Drums
The instrument used to keep time for the band. Usually used as the base for the band.
Guitar
The guitar is a type of chordophone, traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other chordophones by its construction and tuning. There are three main types of modern acoustic guitar: the classical guitar (nylon-string guitar), the steel-string acoustic guitar, and the archtop guitar.
Hot seven
The seven member band that was led by Louis Armstrong.
Heebie Jeebies
Heebie Jeebies was a song by Louise Armstrong. It was the creation of Scat Singing.
The Empress of Blues
A Name that was used instead of Bessie Smith
Form
The structure in which a song follows
Most common form
A-A-B-A
Creoles of Color
The Creoles of Color are a historic ethnic group of Louisiana, especially the city of New Orleans.
Boogie Woogie
Boogie-woogie is an African American style of piano-based blues that became popular in the late 1930s and early 1940s, but originated much earlier.
Ragtime
A 1890 style of Jazz revolving around the piano
Beat
A unit of pulse
4/4
4 beats per measure while the quarter note gets the beat.
Tonality
A particular kind of sound and structure given by the relationship of the notes of the major scale in a song
Chord
A harmonic set of 3 or more notes
Chord changes
Literally changes in chords
Clarinet
A woodwind instrument with a more mellow sound
Tone Color
The spectrum of frequencies generated by each instrument in its own unique way
Piano
An instrument that can play many different chords and octaves.
Tuba
A very loud deep instrument, used as background chords.
Scat singing
Jazz improvisation using the human voice as an instrument, with nonsense syllables instead of words
Call and response
When one section of a band plays something, then the other j\half responds to it with another set of notes.
Stride Piano
A jazz piano style that was developed in the large cities of the East Coast, mainly New York,
Rhythm
The arrangement of sounds in time. It encompasses beat, tempo, and meter.
Ride Rhythm
A time-keeping rhythm by the ride cymbal.
Timbre
Term that describes tone quality or tone color
Interval
The difference between two pitches.
Mode
Describes a sequence of acoustic relationships
Chorus
The main part of a tune
Straight mute
The most common type of mute. A hollow, cone-shaped mute that fits into the bell of the instrument.
Bass
A string bass that is a low string instrument used to keep time
Downbeat
the name of the number
Trading four/eights
When soloists play 4/8 bars then pass to the next soloist
French Quarter
Oldest neighborhood in New Orleans
Tempo
The speed or pace at which the piece is played
Rhythm Section
The part of the band that plays the background rhythm responsible for keeping time.
Measure
A group of beats
Scale
A range of notes in ascending or descending order that lead to a basic tonality and are the basis for all music.
Key
The scale in which you play a song in. The amount of sharps and flats.
Whole step
Advancing a whole note up or down a scale
Verse
A complete set of music
Harmony
motion
Cornet
A thinner brighter trumpet
Trombone
A deep brass instrument with a slide to play the notes vs. pedals or keys
Upbeat
The and in music
