The interpretation of jazz style is crucial to the element of rhythmic groove in any jazz ensemble performance. Today‚ many written arrangements for both large and small jazz ensembles are well marked with articulations and expression markings. However‚ in some cases there is nothing to guide the instructor or student. This book addresses some of the articulation and style situations that are commonly found in jazz music. These situations can be generalized into a set of guidelines that can be used
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Jazz Notes Exam #3 Chapter 9- The Bebop Revolution • Big Band music was on the decline at the end of WWII. • It was difficult to staff a 17 member big band • Due to the war and the economy Dance Halls began to close • A growing artistic unrest developed among some artists rejecting the commercial and repetitive big band arrangements • Bebop developed as a reaction to the swing era Bepop • Bebop‚ or bop is a style of jazz characterized by fast tempo‚ instrumental virtuosity and improvisation
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1. What is your evaluation of Scott Fischer and Rob Hall as leaders? Did they make some poor decisions? If so‚ why?(Required) I believe that due to their experience with climbing Mount Everest‚ Hall and Fischer might have lead the people better than other guides but made some critical mistakes. Although they gave the opportunity for people to climb the highest mountain in the world and helped them achieve that goal‚ they made some poor decisions that eventually lead to death of their clients and
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Big Band Jazz Across the world there are thousands of languages that we as people use to communicate with one another. Many of these languages have been developed out of others‚ therefore sharing similar dialects‚ accents‚ and in some cases even some words are very similar. Yet of all the languages that are spoken across the world‚ there is only one that is fluently spoken and understood on every continent‚ and that is the language of Music. Yet because this language is spoken in so many different
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As outlined in the Case Study‚ Joseph reported his roommate‚ Greg‚ for being too loud in their residence hall after previously asking him to quiet down. It can be argued that Joseph was maintaining the Common Good. The Common Good is something that does not just happen‚ instead it requires the cooperation of others to be established and maintained properly. Additionally‚ the Common Good is something that is larger than the people that create it. By reporting his roommate for making too much noise
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Egyptian art was mainly made for after life purposes. For example‚ the Egyptians used a very accurate gridding system for many art pieces. On the grid system Egyptian artist created a method called frontalism or twisted perspective which is the head of a person drawn in profile and the body seen from the front. Frontalsim and the grid system were a very important piece in a pharaoh or important leader’s afterlife. In the tomb of Ti there is a painting of Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt which shows
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Greening Your Work and Your Commute Raising awareness and reducing your carbon footprint Did you know that by our everyday habits and choices‚ the average American puts out 22 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year? Experts studying the recent climate history of the earth agree now that global warming is occurring at a precipitous rate‚ and human activities are the dominant force driving the trend. Our smokestacks‚ tailpipes‚ and burning forests emit CO2 and other gasses that add to the planet’s
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Chapter I:4 Gross Income: Exclusions Discussion Questions I:4-1 The IRS and the courts must interpret the tax law passed by Congress. The efforts of the IRS and the courts may result in broad definitions of certain exclusions. Such broad definitions may reasonably be termed administrative or judicial exclusions. Administrative exclusions are those that are developed by the Treasury Department and IRS through Regulation‚ rulings‚ etc. Judicial exclusions are the result of court decisions
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Concert Report This semester I attended a jazz concert put on by Truman State University’s Department of Music. It was on December 5th at 8 pm‚ in Ophelia Parrish Performance Hall. The university’s Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Lab band both performed. Both bands were directed by Tim AuBuchon. The bands drew in a decently sized crowd. I was able to recognise several of my peers sitting in the audience alongside of me. I pleasantly surprised by the size of the bands and the level of skill they had. Both
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What about the nineteen twenties‚ the jazz age? This new sound called jazz is music became recently discovered that’s how it begun. To anyone that lived in this era had a blast en-joying new sound of music. The 1920S were known as the “Jazz Age or era”‚ this dec-ade started when the our American soldiers were coming back home and had won the greatest international conflict in our history and had to be dealt with nervous energy stored up and even in the unexpended into the war. Anew president had
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