MUSC 2140 Study Guide - Final Guide: Don Redman, Benny Carter, Bebop

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Flatted scale degree: note played a half step lower. Big bands: large jazz orchestras featuring sections of saxophones, trumpets, and trombones, prominent during the swing era (1930s). Head arrangement: a flexible unwritten arrangement created by a band. Standard: a popular song that has become part of the permanent repertory for jazz musicians. Riff: a short, catchy and repeated melodic phrase. This term is the most relevant to big band swing. A riff is a short, repeated, and persistent phrase. They can be altered a little upon repetition in order to take into account changes in the underlying harmony, but they don"t change very much. Arrangers often use riffs in big band arrangements both as the main melodic content and as background material. They often function to build up momentum in the music. motive although music theorists and historians use the term.

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