restrained, unemotional performance with lush harmonies, moderate volume levels and tempos
Cool jazz
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Dixieland jazz
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style of jazz with a simple, cheerful character
Authenticity
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a term originally used to describe an approach to the performance and understanding of music that relied on evidence from the…
Bebop
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a complex 1940's jazz style, characterized by very fast or very slow tempos with improvised lines of notes, irregular accents…
Bop
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a complex 1940's jazz style, characterized by very fast or very slow tempos with improvised lines of notes, irregular accents…
New Orleans jazz
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an early style of jazz originating in New Orleans in the first two decades of the twentieth century
Terraced dynamics
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expressive style typical of some early music in which volume levels shift abruptly from soft to loud and back without gradual…
Concert
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Italian
musical performance in front of an audience
Conduct
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to direct a performance by an ensemble