MUSC 2140 Study Guide - Mobsters, Counter-Melody, Fletcher Henderson
18 Apr 2013
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History of jazz music- unit 2 new york 1920"s. Playing in a homophonic texture is one of the central differences between. New york jazz of the 1920s and the polyphonic texture of new orleans jazz. However you could still hear both textures played in new york. It can mean a single melody played over a background of harmony. It can also mean a melody played in the context of block chords texture= the melody and harmony exist in a single layer but with different pitches filling out the harmony. In big bands they use this texture to produces passages called soli. Countermelody= subordinate instruments have melodic interest of their own, though not strong enough to compete with the main melody. Stop time= technique in which a band plays a series of short chords a fixed distance apart, creating spaces for the instrument to fill with monophonic improvisation. This occurs in new orleans jazz as well.
