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Syncopation

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Music is accented either before or after a beat

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Blues

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A simple, funky style of black music separate from but coexistent with jazz

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Scat Singing

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Jazz improvisation using the human voice as an instrument, with nonsense syllables instead of words

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Ride Rhythm

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A time-keeping rhythm by the ride cymbal.

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Mute

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An attachment that reduces an instrument’s loudness and alters its tone color

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Ragtime

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A kind of written piano music that first appeared in the 1890’s

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Timbre

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Term that describes tone quality or tone color

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Tone Color

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The spectrum of frequencies generated by each instrument in its own unique way

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Stop Time

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When the band stops playing for a soloist, also called a break.

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Tonality

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A particular kind of sound and structure given by the relationship of the notes of the major scale in a song

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Harmony

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Motion

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4/4

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4 beats per measure, quarter note gets the beat

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Tempo

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The speed or pace at which the piece is played

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Measure

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A group of beats

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Scale

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A range of notes in ascending or descending order that lead to a basic tonality and are the basis for all music.

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Chord Changes

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A change from chord to chord in a chord progression

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Meter

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The type of grouping of beats

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Beat

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A unit of pulse

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Rhythm

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The arrangement of sounds in time. It encompasses beat, tempo, and meter.

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Downbeat

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the name of the number

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Polyrhythm

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Many rhythms

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Upbeat

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The word “and” in between the downbeats

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Half Step

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Very small intervals on the chromatic scale

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Mode

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Describes a sequence of acoustic relationships

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Octave

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The relationship between the bottom “do” and the top “do,” the first and eighth steps of the scale

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Blues Notes

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Any pitch that is not completely a half step below another

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Chord

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Three or more notes played simultaneously

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Creoles of Color

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French immigrants from Canada that settled in New Orleans

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Chorus

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Structure of the entire song

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Call and Response

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A continued repeated sound with a response sound