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Cultivated music
music brought to a country and consciously developed
Vernacular music
music from our native tongue, including hymns and psalms
Ragtime
informal piano music which preceded jazz, similar to march music and very popular in the early 1900s in America
Blues
category of black folk song with sad/lonely themes, which emerged around 1900 and is a strophic genre
New Orleans Jazz
casual jazz with small bands, typically w/ 3 melody instruments and a rhythm section, centered in New Orleans
Jamming
collective improvisation, centered in New Orleans jazz
Big-Band Jazz/Swing
jazz with a variety of tone color and instrumental effects, played by 10-25 players
Big Bands
bands with 10-25 players, and less improv that other jazz
Standards
songs favored by jazzmen
Bebop
1940s genre with "improvisation at a new level of technical virtuosity" and hard to follow melodies
Operetta
"popular European genre of light opera in the late 19th and early 20th centuries," with amusing and far-fetched plots
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