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Jazz Compositions In B Major
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. However, jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz (word)
The origin of the word ''jazz'' is one of the most sought-after etymologies in modern American English. Interest in the word – named the word of the year, Word of the Twentieth Century by the American Dialect Society – has resulted in considerable research and the linguistic history is well documented. "Jazz" originated in slang around 1912 on the West Coast of the United States, West Coast. The meaning varied, but the word did not initially refer to music. "Jazz" came to mean jazz music in Chicago around 1915. Etymology The similarity of "jazz" to "jasm", an obsolete slang term meaning spirit, energy, and vigor, and dated to 1860 in the Random House ''Historical Dictionary of American Slang'' (1979), suggests that "jasm" should be considered the leading candidate for the source of "jazz". The word "wikt:jasm, jasm" appeared in Josiah Gilbert Holland’s second novel, ''Miss Gilbert's Career'' (1860), and meant “lively," and was used to describe the "inexpressible person ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
