in jazz, an extended and often highly inventive improvisation in place of an anticipated shorter set of phrases
Stretch out
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Twos
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a set of two bar phrases; in jazz, when different players alternate playing two bar phrases, this is called trading twos
Anticipated Barre
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Anticipated or Expected Barre See Anticipated or Expected Barre in Barre
Arrange
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to set a work originally written for one instrument (or set of instruments) for another instrument or set of instruments
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…
Smear
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in jazz, a type of glissando or portamento in which the pitch of a note is shifted about a half step, often with a rather har…
Theorbo
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a large member of the lute family, in use from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, with an extended neck and two sets of s…
Cantus
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Latin
melody at the top of a polyphonic piece, often set over a tenor line