The Bebop: A Style Of Jazz
Bebop
Called also bop, bebop is a style of jazz with its characteristics being fast tempo, instrumental virtuosity and improvisation founded on the mixture of harmonic structure and melody. Its origins began in the early and mid-1940’s, where it became synonymous with modern jazz, as the two of them came to a certain maturity point in the 1960’s. Its roots were from New York City.
The creation of bebop began by the interest of jazz performers to create a new genre where it counters the popular swing with a type of music which is not danceable but only listened and appreciated. Its name came from nonsense syllables used in scat singing. The first known example of bebop was named “four or five times” but the antecedent of bebop was clearly …show more content…
The type of music is quite different where from the organized tunes of Benny Goodman from the swing era, now it is more nervous. Although of this change, for artists bebop was a beautiful revolution of the art of jazz. Another difference is no more arrangements on paper are made, because bebop featured improvisation. Late bop moved towards extended forms that represented a departure from pop and show tunes. Performers also employed several harmonic devices not typical of the previous jazz: certain dissonant tones like the sharp 11 or flat ninth. Bebop gives jazz its basic music vocabulary, common practice period for …show more content…
It uses a section of double bass and drums for a bassline to lead the section of brass instruments like trumpets and trombones, woodwinds like clarinets and string instruments. It can be medium of fast tempo. The term swing was derived from swing feel which is the emphasis of the off-beat and the weaker pulse in music. In swing music it usually features soloists which on the melody, they improvise on the melody played by the others. There was also the swing era, where the pre dominant form of swing is clear, between 1935 and 1946. The verb “to swing” can be also used to play strong rhythmic groove and drive. In the 1920’s, performers wanted to use a larger ensemble using written arrangements. As I have said before from 1935 to 1946. In this period the big band swing reached its peak in America.
Swing deteriorated its fame in the World War II due to various influences. In the late 1940’s, swing changed to traditional pop music or evolved to new genres, like blues and bebop. It began to revive again in the 1950’s, with artists like Frank
Called also bop, bebop is a style of jazz with its characteristics being fast tempo, instrumental virtuosity and improvisation founded on the mixture of harmonic structure and melody. Its origins began in the early and mid-1940’s, where it became synonymous with modern jazz, as the two of them came to a certain maturity point in the 1960’s. Its roots were from New York City.
The creation of bebop began by the interest of jazz performers to create a new genre where it counters the popular swing with a type of music which is not danceable but only listened and appreciated. Its name came from nonsense syllables used in scat singing. The first known example of bebop was named “four or five times” but the antecedent of bebop was clearly …show more content…
The type of music is quite different where from the organized tunes of Benny Goodman from the swing era, now it is more nervous. Although of this change, for artists bebop was a beautiful revolution of the art of jazz. Another difference is no more arrangements on paper are made, because bebop featured improvisation. Late bop moved towards extended forms that represented a departure from pop and show tunes. Performers also employed several harmonic devices not typical of the previous jazz: certain dissonant tones like the sharp 11 or flat ninth. Bebop gives jazz its basic music vocabulary, common practice period for …show more content…
It uses a section of double bass and drums for a bassline to lead the section of brass instruments like trumpets and trombones, woodwinds like clarinets and string instruments. It can be medium of fast tempo. The term swing was derived from swing feel which is the emphasis of the off-beat and the weaker pulse in music. In swing music it usually features soloists which on the melody, they improvise on the melody played by the others. There was also the swing era, where the pre dominant form of swing is clear, between 1935 and 1946. The verb “to swing” can be also used to play strong rhythmic groove and drive. In the 1920’s, performers wanted to use a larger ensemble using written arrangements. As I have said before from 1935 to 1946. In this period the big band swing reached its peak in America.
Swing deteriorated its fame in the World War II due to various influences. In the late 1940’s, swing changed to traditional pop music or evolved to new genres, like blues and bebop. It began to revive again in the 1950’s, with artists like Frank