Jazz Music

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  • Jazz
    • Ragtime
      • Timbre
        • Piano
        • Salon style
        • Stride Bass
      • Texture
        • Soloistic
        • Melody Dominated Homophony
      • Rhythm & Metre
        • 4/4
        • straight rhythms
      • Melody
        • Highly syncopated
        • Notated
        • Decorative melody
        • Dance/ entertainment
      • Harmony
        • Stride bass
        • Chords on beats 2+4
      • Structure
        • Not 12-bar blues
        • Few modulations
    • Dixieland (New Orleans)
      • Timbre
        • Frontline and rhythm sections
        • Banjo, tuba, drumkit, piano, clarinet
      • Texture
        • Collective polyphonic improvisation
        • trumpet melody
      • Structure
        • 12-bar blues
      • Melody
        • solo breaks
        • Blues notes
        • Improvised
        • Few modulations
      • Harmony
        • Comping- piano + banjo + tuba
      • Rhythm & Metre
        • 4/4
        • Syncopation
    • Chicago
      • Melody
        • Improvised on motifs
        • Blues notes
      • Harmony
        • Comping
        • Stab chords
      • Rhythm & Metre
        • 4/4
        • Syncopation
      • Structure
        • 12-bar blues
      • Texture
        • Soloistic
        • Melody dominated homophony
      • Timbre
        • Banjo, double bass, drumkit, trumpet, piano, clarinet
        • Frontline & rhythm section
    • 1920s Big Band
      • Texture
        • Homophonic
      • Timbre
        • 2 trumpets, 2 saxophones, 2 trombones, banjo, piano, double bass
        • Reeds, rhythm and brass section
      • Structure
        • Developed version of 12-bar blues
      • Melody
        • Horsewhinny
        • Sound effects
        • Arrangement
        • Melody based on harmony
        • Jungle-style for floor shows
      • Harmony
        • walking bass
        • Chromaticism
        • Chord extensions
        • Substitution chords
      • Rhythm & Metre
        • 4/4
        • Syncopation
    • 1940s Swing Band
      • Harmony
        • Extended chords
        • Substitution chords
        • Chromatic
        • Faster harmonic rhythm
        • Use of Klangfarbenmelodie
      • Melody
        • Not much improvisation
        • Chromatic
        • Based on motifs
      • Structure
        • Arranged
        • Some solo breaks
        • Dance
        • Head and chorus arrangement
      • Rhythm & Metre
        • Swung rhythms
        • Syncopation
      • Texture
        • Homophony
        • Antiphonal dialogue
      • Timbre
        • 3 trumpets,3 saxophones, 3 trombones, double bass, drumkit, guitar, piano
    • Be-Bop
      • Melody
        • Virtuosic
        • Improvised
        • Scalelic runs and angular melodic contours
        • Based on chord progressions
        • Use of microtones
      • Harmony
        • Bitonal
        • 'Flatted' 5ths
        • Dissonance
        • Upper chord extensions e.g. 9th, 11th etc.
      • Structure
        • Head and chorus arrangement
        • solo breaks including drum solos
      • Texture
        • Melody dominated homophony
        • Contrapuntal aspects
        • Monophonic sections
        • Smaller bands
      • Timbre
        • Strong rhythmic backing
        • harder attack
        • Counter-melodies
        • Incorporation of classical instruments e.g. flutes
      • Rhythm & Metre
        • Syncopation
        • Very fast
        • Use of straight quavers
        • Drum plays on weak beats and off beats
        • Polyrhythms
        • Some use of swing

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