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  2. Ostinato - Wikipedia

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    Vamp riff typical of funk and R&B [31] Play ⓘ In music, a vamp is a repeating musical figure, section, [31] or accompaniment. Vamps are usually harmonically sparse: [31] A vamp may consist of a single chord or a sequence of chords played in a repeated rhythm. The term frequently appeared in the instruction 'Vamp till ready' on sheet music for ...

  3. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    To create music at the spur of the moment, spontaneously, and without preparation (often over a given harmonic framework or chord progression) in alto octave above the treble staff, G 5 to G 6 [8] in altissimo Octave above the in alt octave, G 6 to G 7 in modo di In the art of, in the style of in stand

  4. Omnibus progression - Wikipedia

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    The omnibus progression in music is a chord progression characterized by chromatic lines moving in opposite directions. [1] The progression has its origins in the various Baroque harmonizations of the descending chromatic fourth in the bass ostinato pattern of passacaglia, known as the "lament bass". [2]

  5. Lick (music) - Wikipedia

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    In popular music genres such as country, blues, jazz or rock music, a lick is "a stock pattern or phrase" [2] consisting of a short series of notes used in solos and melodic lines and accompaniment. For musicians, learning a lick is usually a form of imitation. By imitating, musicians understand and analyze what others have done, allowing them ...

  6. Chord progression - Wikipedia

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    In tonal music, chord progressions have the function of either establishing or otherwise contradicting a tonality, the technical name for what is commonly understood as the "key" of a song or piece. Chord progressions, such as the extremely common chord progression I-V-vi-IV, are usually expressed by Roman numerals in

  7. Backdoor progression - Wikipedia

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    Backdoor compared with the dominant (front door) in the chromatic circle: they share two tones and are transpositionally equivalent. In jazz and jazz harmony, the chord progression from iv 7 to ♭ VII 7 to I (the tonic or "home" chord) has been nicknamed the backdoor progression [1] [2] or the backdoor ii-V, as described by jazz theorist and author Jerry Coker.

  8. Locrian mode - Wikipedia

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    Locrian is the word used to describe an ancient Greek tribe that habited the three regions of Locris. [1] Although the term occurs in several classical authors on music theory, including Cleonides (as an octave species) and Athenaeus (as an obsolete harmonia), there is no warrant for the modern use of Locrian as equivalent to Glarean's hyperaeolian mode, in either classical, Renaissance, or ...

  9. Mordent - Wikipedia

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    The precise meaning of mordent has changed over the years. In the Baroque period, a mordent was a lower mordent and an upper mordent was a pralltriller or schneller.In the 19th century, however, the name mordent was generally applied to what is now called the upper mordent, and the lower mordent became known as an inverted mordent.