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Learn the meanings and origins of various musical terms used in scores, reviews, and program notes. Browse the alphabetical list of terms from Italian, French, German, and other languages, with examples and references.
Learn the terms for musical instruments, techniques, equipment, and styles used in jazz and popular music. This glossary covers acoustic and electric instruments, amplifiers, effects, recording, and more.
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation, and has many subgenres and regional scenes.
A comprehensive list of subgenres of jazz music, with characteristics, eras, and examples. Learn about the history and evolution of jazz styles, from Dixieland to Ethio-jazz, from bebop to electro swing.
This chapter begins by pointing out the way that technological developments (radio and recordings), and the economic lift they provided to musicians, generated crosscurrents in jazz, resulting in a move towards jazz orchestras, the big bands, by the end of the 1920s. Schuller then considers two sites of big band activity: New York and Kansas City.
An overview of jazz, a musical style that originated from African American communities in the United States, with various subgenres, regional scenes and topics. Learn about the history, elements, instruments, compositions and performers of jazz.
There’s one grainy photograph. Patton, whose family had moved to Dockery about four years before, was a young man then. Nobody knows for sure exactly when he was born.
A performance at the Jazz in Duketown festival in 2019, located at 's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands. Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.