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Terms, Tune names, Album Names, ETC. Flashcards

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Syncopation

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Placement of an accent slightly before or after the beat.

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Stop time

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When the band stops playing usually to feature a soloist.

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Brass Bands

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Groups of Jazz bands back in the early times of Jazz that were made of only brass instruments.

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Obbligato

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In classical music obbligato usually describes a musical line that is in some way indispensable in performance.

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Blues

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An old style of Jazz that followed the blues chord progression and always had blues notes mixed.

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Bebop

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A fast paced style of Jazz that was created to keep the old players from playing with the new ones.

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“Kind of Blue”

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Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released on August 17, 1959, by Columbia Records.

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Polyrhthm

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A song with multiple Rythms

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Half Step

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Moving up or down on a chromatic scale. (Also known as adding a sharp or flat to a note)

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Trumpet

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A bright sounding brass instrument. It has the ability to use mutes.

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Harmon Mute

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A mute for brass instruments that can have be played with or without a stem. Also know as the wha wha mute

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Plunger Mute

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A mute where they use the end of a plunger to change the sound of their brass instrument.

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Banjo

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The string instrument used in Jazz. For a long, it was used to provide background chords and even keep time.

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Hot Five

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One of the bands that played under Louise Armstrong. It had 5 members.

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Soprano Saxophone

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A saxophone shaped like a clarinet that is higher pitched and brighter than an alto sax.

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Rubato

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Free flowing

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Improvision

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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.

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Solo Breaks

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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

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Harmony

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Motion

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Chicago Styles

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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.

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Swing

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A type of Jazz from the 30’s involving a steady beat.

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Meter

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The type of grouping of beats

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Modal

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musical modes rather than chord progressions as a harmonic framework.

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Octave

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The relationship between the bottom “do” and the top “do,” the first and eighth steps of the scale

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Blue Note

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A blue note is a note lowered to the minor 3rd

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Rhythm Changes

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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.

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Bridge

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A contrast of sounds from the chorus

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Drums

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The instrument used to keep time for the band. Usually used as the base for the band.

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Guitar

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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.

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Hot seven

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The seven member band that was led by Louis Armstrong.

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Heebie Jeebies

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Heebie Jeebies was a song by Louise Armstrong. It was the creation of Scat Singing.

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The Empress of Blues

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A Name that was used instead of Bessie Smith

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Form

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The structure in which a song follows

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Most common form

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A-A-B-A

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Creoles of Color

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The Creoles of Color are a historic ethnic group of Louisiana, especially the city of New Orleans.

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Boogie Woogie

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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.

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Ragtime

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A 1890 style of Jazz revolving around the piano

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Beat

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A unit of pulse

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4/4

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4 beats per measure while the quarter note gets the beat.

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Tonality

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A particular kind of sound and structure given by the relationship of the notes of the major scale in a song

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Chord

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A harmonic set of 3 or more notes

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Chord changes

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Literally changes in chords

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Clarinet

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A woodwind instrument with a more mellow sound

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Tone Color

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The spectrum of frequencies generated by each instrument in its own unique way

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Piano

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An instrument that can play many different chords and octaves.

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Tuba

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A very loud deep instrument, used as background chords.

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Scat singing

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Jazz improvisation using the human voice as an instrument, with nonsense syllables instead of words

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Call and response

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When one section of a band plays something, then the other j\half responds to it with another set of notes.

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Stride Piano

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A jazz piano style that was developed in the large cities of the East Coast, mainly New York,

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Rhythm

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The arrangement of sounds in time. It encompasses beat, tempo, and meter.

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Ride Rhythm

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A time-keeping rhythm by the ride cymbal.

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Timbre

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Term that describes tone quality or tone color

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Interval

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The difference between two pitches.

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Mode

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Describes a sequence of acoustic relationships

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Chorus

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The main part of a tune

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Straight mute

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The most common type of mute. A hollow, cone-shaped mute that fits into the bell of the instrument.

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Bass

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A string bass that is a low string instrument used to keep time

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Downbeat

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the name of the number

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Trading four/eights

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When soloists play 4/8 bars then pass to the next soloist

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French Quarter

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Oldest neighborhood in New Orleans

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Tempo

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The speed or pace at which the piece is played

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Rhythm Section

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The part of the band that plays the background rhythm responsible for keeping time.

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Measure

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A group of beats

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Scale

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A range of notes in ascending or descending order that lead to a basic tonality and are the basis for all music.

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Key

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The scale in which you play a song in. The amount of sharps and flats.

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Whole step

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Advancing a whole note up or down a scale

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Verse

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A complete set of music

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Harmony

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motion

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Cornet

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A thinner brighter trumpet

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Trombone

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A deep brass instrument with a slide to play the notes vs. pedals or keys

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Upbeat

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The and in music

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