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MUS 307: Jazz Appreciation (2025)
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Terms in this set (171)
- collective improvisation in front line instruments (!!)
- Instrumentation(!!) differs from many eras, front
line of trumpet, clarinet, and trombone; sometimes
banjo and tuba
Early Jazz features (3)/
- short selections (i.e. Louis Armstrong (!!!))
instrumentation
- Function of music: social (dancing & carousing)
(happy fast paced music)
- European (chord progression) & African Influences
("call and response", emphasis on drumming)
- Jazz's most popular era
-Radio important
-"Territory" bands
-Savoy Ballroom
-Vocalists important: Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitz, Billie
Holiday
Swing features (3)/
- purpose of music was dancing (you can tell
instrumentation
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)
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- 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
Bebop features (2)/ (suits, slang, drug usage)
instrumentation - tension in the solos, extremem registers, surprises
in rhythms and notes, complicated
-Minton's Playhouse
- rhythm section: aggressive drumming ("dropping
bombs")
- Primary instrumentation: front line of trumpet, alto
sax; piano, bass, drums
- restrained, passive solos, using middle registers
- less inflections when compared to hard bop
- Composed melodies: less activity, gentle accents,
pure tone, different instrumentation, less bluesy,
softer
- passive drumming "smooth", little to no comping,
often using brushes for the drums, light clicks, no
Cool features (2)
comments, even drum
- "west coast" jazz
- Mutes sometimes used to soften instrument
sounds and to dampen tone colors
-not standardized
-influenced by: classical music, passive bebop in
solos
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- Solos: blues + Bebop, many inflections, upper
register, active and agressive
- Composed Melodies: activity, strong accented
rhythms
- Gospel (Art Blakey) and R&B influences
Hard Bop features (2)/ (Cannonball Adderley)
instrumentation -heavy african-american influence
- 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
- one chord for a long period of time
Modal features (1) - harmony is minimized, so melody, rhythm and
development become more imporant
- collective improvisation among all instruments
- Usually missing one or more of these elements:
melody, form, harmony, tempo
- turbulence/revolt expressed in music (chaos)
Free features (2)
- politically oriented music (equality, democracy and
freedom)
- "echoing and repetition", fast tempo and upper
register
- electronic instruments including electric guitar,
electric bass, Fender Rhodes electric piano, and
synthesizer
- rock rhythmic grooves
Fusion features (3)/
- combination of jazz with other eras, particularly
instrumentation
rock & cultures (spain and brazil)
-editing rock effects: electronic effects & editing
capabilities (multitacking and splicing)
- simple repetitive harmonies
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MUS 307: Jazz Appreciation (2025)
Comprehensive QUESTIONS (FREQUENTLY
MOST TESTED) AND VERIFIED DETAILED
ANSWERS | get it 100% accurate!!
Save
Terms in this set (171)
- collective improvisation in front line instruments (!!)
- Instrumentation(!!) differs from many eras, front
line of trumpet, clarinet, and trombone; sometimes
banjo and tuba
Early Jazz features (3)/
- short selections (i.e. Louis Armstrong (!!!))
instrumentation
- Function of music: social (dancing & carousing)
(happy fast paced music)
- European (chord progression) & African Influences
("call and response", emphasis on drumming)
- Jazz's most popular era
-Radio important
-"Territory" bands
-Savoy Ballroom
-Vocalists important: Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitz, Billie
Holiday
Swing features (3)/
- purpose of music was dancing (you can tell
instrumentation
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)
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,2/6/25, 1:04 PM MUS 307: Jazz Appreciation (2025) Comprehensive QUESTIONS (FREQUENTLY MOST TESTED) AND VERIFIED DETAILED…
- 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
Bebop features (2)/ (suits, slang, drug usage)
instrumentation - tension in the solos, extremem registers, surprises
in rhythms and notes, complicated
-Minton's Playhouse
- rhythm section: aggressive drumming ("dropping
bombs")
- Primary instrumentation: front line of trumpet, alto
sax; piano, bass, drums
- restrained, passive solos, using middle registers
- less inflections when compared to hard bop
- Composed melodies: less activity, gentle accents,
pure tone, different instrumentation, less bluesy,
softer
- passive drumming "smooth", little to no comping,
often using brushes for the drums, light clicks, no
Cool features (2)
comments, even drum
- "west coast" jazz
- Mutes sometimes used to soften instrument
sounds and to dampen tone colors
-not standardized
-influenced by: classical music, passive bebop in
solos
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, 2/6/25, 1:04 PM MUS 307: Jazz Appreciation (2025) Comprehensive QUESTIONS (FREQUENTLY MOST TESTED) AND VERIFIED DETAILED…
- Solos: blues + Bebop, many inflections, upper
register, active and agressive
- Composed Melodies: activity, strong accented
rhythms
- Gospel (Art Blakey) and R&B influences
Hard Bop features (2)/ (Cannonball Adderley)
instrumentation -heavy african-american influence
- 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
- one chord for a long period of time
Modal features (1) - harmony is minimized, so melody, rhythm and
development become more imporant
- collective improvisation among all instruments
- Usually missing one or more of these elements:
melody, form, harmony, tempo
- turbulence/revolt expressed in music (chaos)
Free features (2)
- politically oriented music (equality, democracy and
freedom)
- "echoing and repetition", fast tempo and upper
register
- electronic instruments including electric guitar,
electric bass, Fender Rhodes electric piano, and
synthesizer
- rock rhythmic grooves
Fusion features (3)/
- combination of jazz with other eras, particularly
instrumentation
rock & cultures (spain and brazil)
-editing rock effects: electronic effects & editing
capabilities (multitacking and splicing)
- simple repetitive harmonies
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