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Early Jazz features (3)/ instrumentation - Answer✔- collective improvisation in front line
instruments
- Instrumentation differs from many eras, front line of trumpet, clarinet, and trombone;
sometimes banjo and tuba
- short selections (i.e. Louis Armstrong)
- Function of music: social (dancing & carousing) (happy fast paced music)
- European (chord progression) & African Influences ("call and response", emphasis on
drumming)

Swing features (3)/ instrumentation - Answer✔- Jazz's most popular era
- purpose of music was dancing (you can tell because of the tempo and drumming)
- Precomposed melodies: simpler, less grinding, dissonant
- Emphasis on composition and arrangment
- big band instrumentation ( 5 saxophones, 4-5 trumpets, 4-5 trombones, and rhythm section)

Bebop features (2)/ instrumentation - Answer✔- Complicated language using scales and
arpeggios (aka fast notes), technical proficiency, upper register of trumpet, emphasis on
improv, more dissonant
- purpose: listening (jazz lost popularity in this era because it evolved in isolation)
- dress and language are unique to the sub-culture (suits, slang, drug usage)
- tension in the solos, extremem registers, surprises in rhythms and notes, complicated
- rhythm section: aggressive drumming ("dropping bombs")
- Primary instrumentation: front line of trumpet, alto sax; piano, bass, drums


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Cool features (2) - Answer✔- restrained, passive solos, using middle registers
- less inflections when compared to hard bop
- Composed melodies: less activity, gentle accents, pure tone, instrumentation
- passive drumming "smooth", little to no comping, often using brushes for the drums
- "west coast" jazz
- Mutes sometimes used to soften instrument sounds and to dampen tone colors

Hard Bop features (2)/ instrumentation - Answer✔- Solos: blues + Bebop, many inflections,
upper register, active and agressive
- Composed Melodies: activity, strong accented rhythms
- Rhythm section: agressive drumming (i.e. Art Blakey) & repetitive comping (i.e. Horace Silver)
- blues/ AABA forms common
- front line of tenor sax and trumpet; piano, bass, and drums

Modal features (1) - Answer✔- one chord for a long period of time
- harmony is minimized, so melody, rhythm and development become more imporant

Free features (2) - Answer✔- collective improvisation among all instruments
- Usually missing one or more of these elements: melody, form, harmony, tempo
- turbulence/revolt expressed in music (chaos)
- politically oriented music (equality, democracy and freedom)
- "echoing and repetition", fast tempo and upper register

Fusion features (3)/ instrumentation - Answer✔- electronic instruments including electric
guitar, electric bass, Fender Rhodes electric piano, and synthesizer
- rock rhythmic grooves
- combination of jazz with other eras, particularly rock & cultures (spain and brazil)
-editing rock effects: electronic effects & editing capabilities (multitacking and splicing)
- simple repetitive harmonies

Neoclassical features (1)/ instrumentation - Answer✔- acoustic instruments
- return to acoustic roots
- concerned with preserving and playing acoustic jazz that focuses on music of the earliest eras
(particularly early jazz and swing)


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- galvanized by Wynton Marsalis
- continued the "legitmization" of jazz (jazz at the lincoln center)
- new interpretations or performances of historically significant jazz (new improv/twists)
- return to acoustic jazz with particular attention to replicate and play early jazz eras (strong
historical tradition)

Chronological order and dates of eras - Answer✔1920's Early Jazz
1930's Swing Era
1940's Bebop
Early 1950's Cool Jazz
Late 1950's Hard Bop
1960's Modal Jazz
1960's Free Jazz
1970's Fusion
1980's Neoclassical

Improvisation - Answer✔Immediate creation of a melody

Melody - Answer✔Series of single pitches
(aka head)

Chord - Answer✔Three of more pitches sounded at the same time

Harmony - Answer✔Order of chords in a song (aka changes)

Form - Answer✔Overall structure of a piece of music

Blues Form - Answer✔twelve measures; 3-four measure phrases; statement, repetition,
commentary

AABA form - Answer✔32 measures, 4- eight measure phrases; A sections are the same while B
section is contrasting

Chorus - Answer✔Once through the form of a song

Swing rhythmic feel - Answer✔walking bass; drums play swing rhythmic pattern; uneven eighth
notes

Even eighth rhythmic feel - Answer✔repetitive bass; even eighth notes in drums and other
instruments


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