Completed Attempt Score 4 out of 13 points Time Elapsed 7 minutes. Instructions Question 1 0 out of 1 points A very common style of playing the bass in jazz from the 1930s through the 1960s is called: Selected Answer: Incorrect running bass. Correct Answer: Correct walking bass. Question 2 0 out of 1 points “Laying out”‚ in jazz music‚ is: Selected Answer: Incorrect when the musicians decide how they are going to play the song. Correct Answer: Correct When a musician doesn’t play
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Jazz Music Developed in about 1900‚ Jazz music has been an influence in many artist’s work‚ from painting to other forms of music. Jazz is an American music form that was developed from African-American work songs. Jazz music was developed about 1900 by black Americans. It possesses an identifiable history and describable stylistic evolution. European classical music‚ American blues‚ and South American songs and rhythms came together to form what became known as jazz. Jazz has borrowed from black
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difficult to define jazz because it has so many varieties. Almost all jazz styles have improvisations and swing feeling. Improvisation means compose and perform at the same time. Four ingredients that help music swing are steady beat‚ syncopation‚ lilting quality‚ and rising and falling of the melodic line. Charles Mingus was a jazz bassist known for his composing and improvising. Dizzy Gillespie was a modern jazz trumpeter who devised a highly syncopated style of improvising. Jazz musicians usually
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Circle of Fifths Scale Degree Names Key Signatures and Order of Accidentals Common Notation Errors II. RHYTHM in JAZZ PERFORMANCE 10 11 12 15 18 19 21 22 28 29 38 41 42 47 48 Polyrhythms Swing Eighth Note Accents and Articulations Rhythmic Roles Harmonic Rhythm in Jazz Performance The Larger View: Form as Rhythmic Structure Placement of the Notes Syncopation Studies Syncopation in the Jazz Waltz Polyrhythms in Performance Clave Beat Odd Meters Mixed Meters Rhythmic Reading and Dictation Exercises Other
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Polymodality in Jazz Polymodality is a term that has been rarely mentioned in the jazz literature‚ in the same way it has been infrequently practiced as a compositional tool by jazz arrangers and composers. Very few books mention either polymodality‚ polytonality or its related terminology‚ and when done‚ is sometimes to describe a different concept from the one discussed in this research. A clear example of this‚ is the use of the term polymodality by George Russell in his book Lydian Chromatic
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Byron C Brown Melinda Rogers Introduction to Music MUS-123 February 24‚ 2013 A Brief History of the Growth of Jazz This music‚ first practiced by African Americans and Creoles‚ before being adopted also by Euro-American musicians‚ probably akin to archaic Jazz. We do‚ however‚ no documentation about it‚ other than oral testimony to writing. There is indeed a dimension of jazz that makes it both original and elusive in these crucial years between the last two centuries: improvisation. Before
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was one of the greatest and most important figures in jazz history. Miles Dewey Davis III was a musician‚ composer‚ arranger‚ producer and bandleader all in one. Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz after World War 2. He was one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the twentieth century along with Charlie Parker and Louis Armstrong. His versatility landed him at the forefront of bebop‚ cool jazz‚ modal‚ hard bop and fusion (Kirker‚ 2005:1). His sound
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Brian Van Wyk Jazz 1920’s Mr. Mec 6.1.10 Brian Van Wyk 6.1.10 1920’s Jazz Research Paper Jazz is a genre of music that is arguably the greatest art form that has ever hit American and worldly culture. Jazz originated in major cities throughout the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century
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The purpose of this paper is to show the beginnings of Jazz and how it transformed and developed through the decades. What I needed to research‚ was how jazz all began and how it evolved. How did it start? Who were the people that were involved in the beginning? Where did it begin? How did it evolve into what jazz is today? Jazz had its beginnings in Africa. Before the slave trade‚ tribes in Africa had there own rhythms‚ instruments‚ and dances. It was the slave trade brought by ships to South America
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Jazz is a mix of music from marching bands as well as blues and Ragtime. Jazz is a type of music genre that has black American origin and is characterized by a regular or forceful rhythm‚ improvisation‚ and syncopation. Jazz’s most common instruments are brass and woodwind instruments and piano although the guitar and violin are occasionally used. Some different styles of Jazz are Dixieland‚ swing‚ bebop‚ and free jazz. The history of Jazz started in the South in the United States. The foundation
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