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Vaudeville
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a theatrical genre of variety entertainment popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill.
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Tin Pan Alley
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the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
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Ragtime
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Late-nineteenth-century piano style created by African Americans, characterized by highly syncopated melodies; also played in ensemble arrangements. Contributed to early jazz styles.
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Blues
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African-American form of secular folk music, related to jazz, that is based on a simple, repetitive poetic-musical structure.
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Scat Singing
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A jazz style that sets syllables without meaning (vocables) to an improvised vocal line.
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Swing
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Jazz term coined to described Louis Armstrong's style; more commonly refers to big-band jazz.
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Jazz
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A musical style created mainly by African Americans in the early twentieth century that blended elements drawn from African musics with the popular and art traditions of the West.
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Bebop
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Complex jazz style developed in the 1940s. Also bop
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Cool jazz
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a style of modern jazz music that arose following the Second World War. It is characterized by its relaxed tempos and lighter tone, in contrast to the bebop style that preceded it. Cool jazz often employs formal arrangements and incorporates elements of classical music.
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Avant-Garde Jazz
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is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. Avant-jazz often sounds very similar to free jazz, but differs in that, despite its distinct departure from traditional harmony, it has a predetermined structure over which improvisation may take place.
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Fusion
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Style that combines jazz improvisation with amplified instruments of rock.
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Operetta
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a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre.
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Underscoring
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is the playing of music quietly under dialogue or a visual scene. It is usually done to establish a mood or theme. In a play, sometimes incidental music is used for this purpose.
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Source Music
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refers to music in a drama (e.g., film or video game) that is part of the fictional setting and so, presumably, being heard by the characters. It can be background music (e.g., from a radio or TV) or be produced by characters themselves as part of the plot
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Rock and Roll
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American popular music style first heard in the 1950s; derived from the union of African-American rhythm and blues, country-western, and pop music.
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Backbeat
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the 2nd and 4th beats of a measure
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Rockabilly
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Early style of rock and roll, fusing elements of blues, R & B, and country-western music
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Country Western
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Genre of American popular music derived from traditional music of the rural South, usually vocal with an accompaniment of banjos, fiddles, and guitar.
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Country Rock
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hybrid of country-western and rock music. Fuses the themes and sound of country-western with the driving rhythms & instrumentation of rock.
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Motown
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Record company, originally from Detroit, that moved to LA in 1971. Also, the associated musical style - fusion of gospel, rock and roll, and R&B. “Motor” town
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Concept Album
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In pop music, an LP/CD that is unified by a theme
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Rhythm and Blues
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Popular African-American music style of the 1940s through 1960s featuring a solo singer accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble (piano, guitar, double bass, drums, tenor sax), driving rhythms, and blues and popsong forms.
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Folk Rock
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popular music style that combines folk music with amplified instruments of rock.
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Acid Rock
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genre of American rock that emerged in the late 1960s, often associated with psychedelic drugs. Heavy amplification, instrumental improvisation, new sound technologies, and light shows.
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Jam Bands
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Focuses on live performance rather than commercial recordings. Combines many different musical traditions, including folk, jazz, rock, and country-western. Improvisatory and expressive.
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Art Rock
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Genre of rock that uses larger forms and more complex harmonies than other popular styles. Occasionally quotes examples from classical music.
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Heavy Metal
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Rock style; popularized in the 1970s. Simple, repetitive ideas and loud, distorted instrumental solos.
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Glam Rock
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theatrical, flamboyant rock style of the 1970s
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Punk Rock
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– Subgenre of rock, popular since the mid-70s. Loud volume levels, driving rhythms, simple forms. Shocking lyrics.
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Disco
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Commercial dance music of the 1970s
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Reggae
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Jamaican popular music style characterized by offbeat rhythms and chanted vocal over a strong bass part
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New wave
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Subgenre of rock popular since the late 1970s. Influenced by simple 1950s rock and roll. Rejection of complexities of art rock
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Rap
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Style of popular music in which rhymed lyrics are spoken over rhythm tracks; developed by African Americans in the 1970s and widely disseminated in the 1980s and 1990s. Part of the larger culture of hip hop
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Hip Hop
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Black urban art forms that emerged in NYC in the 1970s, encompassing rap music, break dancing, and graffiti art as well as the fashions adopted by the artists. Term comes from the strings of nonsense syllables used by rap artists (vocables).
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Gangsta Rap
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Particularly violent style of rap, with lyrics depicting gangs and street life
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Grunge Rock
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Seattle-based rock style characterized by harsh guitar chords
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Gamelan
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Musical ensemble of Java or Bali, made up of gongs, chimes, metallophones, and drums, among other instruments.
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