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Jazz History
JH Quiz 1
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Music
Undergraduate 2
01/30/2011

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Transcription
Definition
Standard, written notation of heard music.
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Metronomic Sense
Definition
In African music, a steady, underlying beat (like that of a metronome) played through the performance.
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Overlapping call-and-response
Definition
In African music, a solo vocalist sings one line (often improvised) and the group responds in an overlapping chorus.
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Synchopation
Definition
Changing up the rhythm by accenting weaker beats.
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Polyrhythm
Definition
Intricate web of rhythms heard among the different parts (cross-rhythms).
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Ring Shout
Definition
A rhythmic religious dance. Worshipers moved counterclockwise in a circle while singing spirituals, and clapping and stamping to keep the beat.
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Front Line
Definition
Lead (melody) instruments in early jazz bands: trumprt (or cornet), trombone, and clarinet.
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Ndungu
Definition
Long drums from Congo
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Mbira
Definition
An African thumb piano. Several reeds stretched across a wooden board.
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"lining out"
Definition
A European tradition- leader chants a psalm verse one or two lines at a time, congregation sings back the lines, often elaborating on the original tune.
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Spirituals
Definition
African American songs that arose in the nineteenth century and consisted of religious lyrics with folk melodies.
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Gullah
Definition
Vibrant, preserved African culture of the Sea Islands off the eastern coast of the U.S.
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Blue note
Definition
Neutral third or seventh; a bent, slurred, or worried note.
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Pentatonic Scale
Definition
A five-note set that avoids the interval of a tritone and can be arranged as a series of perfect fourths or fifths.
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