in jazz and particularly in bop, an unexpectedly loud beat from the drummer on a backbeat, upbeat or irregular eighth note beat
Bomb
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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…
Changing notes
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non harmonic notes; two notes, one that leaves the chord note by a tone or semitone, then leaps to the next non harmonic note…
Changed note
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device in strict counterpoint where a non harmonic note is used on an accented beat
Clos
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a cadence in which the last note sounds conclusive; that note, termed the 'final', which is the central note of the melody; t…
Achtel
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German
a note one eighth the time value of a whole note see Note Values
Achtelnote
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German
a note one eighth the time value of a whole note see Note Values
Auxiliary Note
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a variety of passing note that returns back to the note immediately before it
Eighth note
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one eighth the time value of a whole note see Note Values