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| music that fulfills a social purpose outside itself |
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| music mean primarily for attentive listening |
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| the durational patterns of sound and silence in a piece of music |
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| the division of musical time into regular recurring units |
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| the organization of the beat into regular recurring patterns |
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| the regular grouping of beats into given meter |
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| the propulsive rhythmic intensity in a jazz performance defined in part by accented upbeats and an alternating long-short/long-short rhythmic pattern at the eighth note |
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| the accentuation of rhythms that ordinarily go unaccented |
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| linear succession of pitches that we hear as coherent melody |
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| the highness/lowness of a sound as determined by the speed of the sounds vibration; a note |
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| music that is written down |
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| a short musical idea that serves as a building block for melodies |
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| the vertical distance (highness/lowness) between any two pitches |
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| an abstract collection of pitches from which musicians draw to create melodies |
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| the interval of an eighth note |
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| the simultaneous sounding of two or more pitches |
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| in most jazz before 1960 the tonal center or central pitch around which all other pitches seem to gravitate |
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| the process of changing from one key to another |
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a harmonic quality conveying certain emotional effects in a piece
Major mode- sounds bright/happy
Minor mode- sounds darker/complex |
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| state of harmonic tension |
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| that dimension of a sound that allows you to distinguish between one instrument and another |
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| the particular instruments chosen for a given piece or performance |
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| the way a composer or arranger uses the available instruments in a given piece |
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| the overall musical fabric created by the simultaneous presentation of musical lines/parts |
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| the texture produced by a group of instruments all playing the same melody |
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| a texture of two or more melodies proceeding simultaneously |
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| a texture often defined as melody with accompaniment |
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| the patterns of loud and soft in music |
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| the shape of a piece of music as determined by its pattern of repetition, contrast, and variation |
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| a fundamental cord progression that repeats again and again |
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| in any given piece, a repeating sequence of chords that provide the harmonic basis for jazz arrangements and improvision. |
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| a melodic or harmonic gesture that creates a sense of resolution at the end of a melody, chord progression or other formal section of music |
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| the process of creating a piece of music in advance of its first performance |
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| process of spontaneously creating a musical statement during the act of a performance |
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| method of musical transmission that involves preserving musical details by writing them down |
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| method of musical transmission that involves passing down music from one generation to another through memorized recreations of live performances |
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| eighth notes that proceed in uneven (long-short/long-short) alternation with accented upbeats |
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| in its fundamental form, a harmonic unit composed of three to seven pitches, each spaced a third apart from the next one |
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| an alternating dialogue between individuals or groups common in jazz |
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| a texture in which each melody note is supported by an underlying chord |
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| scale having the following intervallic structure whole-step/whole-step/half-step/whole-step/whole-step/whole-step/half-step |
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| brief concluding section in a piece of music |
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