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| a general term for wind instruments in world music |
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| employing the element of chance in the choice of tones, rests, durations, rhythms, dynamics |
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| sectional structure for a piece of music based on repetition, in reverse order, of all or most musical sections such that the overall form is symmetric, most often around a central movement |
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| very current, modern, and experimental |
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| a jazz style that emphasizes small ensembles playing very active and complex music. (a.k.a. bop) |
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| in blues and jazz, any of the notes produced by flattering the third, fifth, or seventh notes of a major scale |
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| a lamenting, melancholy song characterized by the three-line lyrical pattern in AAB for, a twelve-bar harmonic progression, and the frequent use of blue notes. |
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| a song style in which phrases sung by a leader alternate with responding phrases sung by a chorus |
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| music in which the composer sets out to remove the decision-making process from his or her control |
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| a general term for stringed instruments in world music |
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| a restrained, controlled jazz style that developed during the elate 1940's |
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| a jazz style based on the original hot jazz from new orleans |
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| the study of non-western, or world , musics |
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| an artistic school of the early twentieth century that attempted to represent the psychological and emotional experience of modern humanity |
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| in jazz bands, the instruments that carry the melodic material |
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| psalm or hymn melodies that are sung as canons or written to contain imitation, popular in britain and the u.s. during the 1700s |
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| a style of jazz developed in the late 1960s that has beens influenced by rock music through the inclusion of amplified instruments, short riffs and even bean subdivisions |
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| a rapid sliding up or down the scale |
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| a general term for solid percussion instruments in world musics that are struck together, shaken, scraped, or rubbed to create their sound |
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| a late nineteenth century artistic movement that sought to capture the visual impression rather than the literal reality of a subject |
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| the practice of making up music and performing it on the spot without first having written it down |
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| Music in which the composer sets out to remove the decision-making process from his or her control |
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| in music of the early twentieth century, the philosophy that musical composition should be approached with objectivity and restraint |
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| a general term for drums in world music |
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| intervals smaller than a half step |
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| a late-twentieth-century movement that seeks to return music to its simplest, most basic elements |
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| dramas that are told through a series of songs, usually with spoken dialogue between the songs |
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| two or more contrasting and independent rhythms used at the same time |
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| the simultaneous use of two or more keys |
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| a piano with the sound altered by the insertion of items such as bolts, screws, pencils, cloth, and even paper on or between the strings |
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| in music, the use of frenzied, irregular rhythms and percussive effects to evoke a feeling or primitive power |
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| an ancient melodic pattern still employed in Indian music |
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| a composed music of the 1890s, usually for piano |
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| in jazz or rock bands, the instruments that supply the harmonic and rhythmic accompaniment |
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| a contrapuntal technique in which a melody in one part is strictly imitated by another voice or voices |
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| a jazz vocal style in which the singer uses nonsense syllables in the place of words |
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| a system of composition developed by Schoenberg that consists of arranging the twelve pitches of the chromatic scale in a particular order |
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| a big band jazz style particularly popular for dance music during the 1930s through the middle 1940s |
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| "speech voice" a vocal technique in which a pitch is half sung, half spoken |
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| a subtle French poetic style from the late nineteenth century that stressed the sound and color of the words that suggested rather than clearly outlined the meaning or story behind the text |
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| one of the ancient rhythmic patterns still employed in Indian music |
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| a chord produced by playing a large group of adjacent notes on the piano with the flat of the hand |
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| An ordering of notes employing all 12 pitches of the chromatic scale |
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| a system of composition developed by Schoenberg that consists of arranging the twelve pitches of the chromatic scale in a particular order |
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