MUSI 1560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Inflection, Flattening, Ragtime
5 Jan 2017
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Today everything is getting mixed up, jazz is within a global village. Term (cid:498)mash up(cid:499) used to be called (cid:498)fusion(cid:499) (cid:498)call and response(cid:499) when the person sings then the band copies. You are constantly responding to something in real jazz. C b g gb f eb c. Off beat beats two and four in four four time. Inflection entire gamut of individual phrasing, idiosyncrasies, accenting, holding, bending, and flattening of the notes and manifold combinations. Inflections peculiar to jazz are an essential requisite of most jazz. Accenting is when something is more forced. Improvisation a manner of playing extemporaneously (on the spot). Improvisation is essential to the heart and soul of jazz. Heart and soul of jazz (on test) Metronomic time - keeping a strict beat. It is essential to most jazz pieces as well as virtually all dance pieces. Cakewalk a dance developed in the late nineteenth century by afro- Not only rhythm but also a type of dance.
