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| A short recurring musical idea |
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| the music between the 2 signs should repeat |
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| the overall form each A section has identical musical material. The B section/Bridge has contrasting musical material |
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| A pitch that has twice or 1/2 the # of vibrations of another |
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| A mysterious quality hard to write it down 8th notes - long - short |
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| a tune universally accepted and played by many jazz musicians |
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| important rhythms figures |
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| the 1st and last chorus of a tune |
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| a relatively simple, catchy repeated phrase; often in a bluesy style |
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| the immediate repetition of a motive at different pitch level |
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| loudness/softness of a piece of music |
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| one complete cycle through the form |
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| a series of pitches that proceeds upward or downward |
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| a sequence of chords that leads to the next section/back to the top |
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| a style of bass accompaniment or line, common in jazz which creates a feeling of regular quarter note movement, akin to the regular alteration of feet while walking |
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| a group of sounds that are agreeable or restful |
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| it tells us generally how high/low the pitches in a pece of music are going to be |
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| the tone quality or color of a sound |
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| the underlying pulse in a piece of music |
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| one of the standard jazz tempos, neither up/ballad |
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| the 1st beat in a measure |
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| a group of sounds that are disagreeable/harsh |
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| a sign used in music notations to show the relative duration and highness/lowness of a musical sound |
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| more readable by minimizing the # of musical symbols |
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| the note of the scale that is conserded the most important. For ex: C is the tonic in C Major Scale |
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| a move to a different key, different tonic changing from one key to another |
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| the metric pattern of the music C - "Common time" or 4/4 four beats per measure |
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| 3 more pitches played at the same time |
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| have more than one chord; chords and harmony are used interchangeably |
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| the specific organizing, doubling, omitting, or adding to the notes of a chord |
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| a linear succession of musical tones |
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| the immediae repetition of a motive at different pitch level |
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| when a band member/members start playing as though the tempos were double it is original rate, even though it is not. A soloist might create a double-time feel by switching from 8th - 16th. Bass player -- quarternotes to 8th notes |
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| When the band begins to play twice as fast as the original tempo |
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| when the band begins to play twice as fast as the original tempo |
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| all the group members except the soloist stop playing |
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| the opposite of double-time feel. the musicians halve the number of notes that are played w/o halving the rate at which the chords change. The music's tempo remains the same even though it appears to be moving at half the speed |
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| a prewritten out solo in harmony |
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| a new melody based on an existing chord progression; result = new song or composition |
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| Trading Fours, Trading Eights |
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| soloists sometimes alternate 8-measure phrases. one musician improvises on the 1st 8 measures, another on the 2nd 8 measure, and so on. The samthing is done w/ 4 measure section. |
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| not common to jazz, but is sometimes used in introductions/endings. aka rubato (Italian for stolen time) |
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| 12 bars long. the melody is usually played twice. as usual, the soloist improvises over the progression of chords in its accompaniment. Each soloist ends an improvisation, another soloist takes over. after all the solos, the group concludes by playing the melody twice more |
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