MUS 106 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bix Beiderbecke, New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Frankie Trumbauer
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer . Vertical style - improvisational style based on using chord tones, which are stacked vertically in notated music. Cross-sectional voicing - written melody played in unison by two instruments from different sections. Wordless vocal - written vocal line sung without word, using instead simple monosyllabic oohs or aahs . Sectionalization - denotes a way to conceptualize a big band into trumpet, trombone, and reed sections and have them play riffs against each other in call- and-response fashion. Block chords - big band arrangement technique in which melodies are harmonized to make them sound fuller. Jelly roll morton and his red hot peppers. Spanish tinge - utilizing rhythms of the tango and other spanish dances in jazz compositions. West end blues with hot five. Weather bird with earl fatha hines. Scat singing - improvised solo sung by a vocalist using nonsense syllables. 1920s: chicago became a central place for jazz.
