... the works and styles of other performers and composers. Gillespie greatly enjoyed listening to and examining the works of Stravinsky, a virtuoso composer of the classic period. Gillespie also admired Maurice Ravel, another composer, famous for works like "Bolero", a piece that consisted of a phrase repeated over and ... the music. Bebop is played as fast as humanly possible. Most music of that era was performed at a more moderate tempo. With Bebop, notes blazed through the air. Bebop was art music, not "entertainment" music. Not for dancing, but for listening. Bebop musicians considered ...

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... the band of the Prince of Pless, invented a valve which he applied to the horn by July of 1814. This device enabled the player, in all simplicity, to produce all notes from the lowest to the highest with the same strength, fullness, and purity, the majority of which were hitherto only obtainable by stopping the hand into the bell, which produced ... style of music, making that style richer and smoother. Its origination in the marching bands has advanced to the modern styles of music such as techno, acid jazz, smooth jazz, classic jazz, Dixieland jazz etc. Blues and ragtime came together...

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... the repeat of theme A before the beginning of them C, and like all rags being rhythmically more flexible with the left and right hands set apart in syncopated tension. This is classic ragtime. West End Blues For the first half of his life, everything Armstrong did was copied as fast as he could record it, but this 1928 recording of a 12-bar ... the same simple-to-complex patterns. Then on the last chorus Armstrong quickly rises to a high b-flat and holds the note for four whole bars. When the strain of the notes length and height is at its maximum, he releases it, lurching downward agai...

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... Miller Orchestra from 1941, which was taped on film as one set and then made into an audio recording with separate tracks. The track I chose to listen to was , the classic, In the Mood. This saxophone feature has one of the coolest and most knows saxophone licks ever. This song was written as a dance and jive song with its up beat ... there is an impression that they are standing out in front of the band. Most of the song is played with a swing feel on the hi-hat, and the bass notes are really plucked throughout the whole song. There is a shout chorus at the end which is the grand final...

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