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  2. Ukulele - Wikipedia

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    The ukulele (/ ˌ juː k ə ˈ l eɪ l i / yoo-kə-LAY-lee; from Hawaiian: ʻukulele [ˈʔukuˈlɛlɛ]), also called a uke, is a member of the lute family of instruments. The ukulele is of Portuguese origin and was popularized in Hawaii. The tone and volume of the instrument vary with size and construction. Ukuleles commonly come in four sizes ...

  3. May Singhi Breen - Wikipedia

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    "Ukulele Lesson" 78 rpm disc label. Breen is credited with convincing publishers to include ukulele chords on their sheet music. The Tin Pan Alley publishers hired her to arrange the chords and her name is on hundreds of examples of music from the 1920s on. [6] Her name appears as a music arranger on more pieces than any other individual. [7]

  4. Sheets of sound - Wikipedia

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    Coltrane used the "sheets of sound" lines to liquidise and loosen the strict chords, modes, and harmonies of hard bop, whilst still adhering to them (at this stage in his musical development). [7] Playing with the Miles Davis groups, in particular, gave Coltrane the free musical space in which to apply harmonic ideas to stacked chords and ...

  5. Otonality and utonality - Wikipedia

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    Starting from the symmetrical chords, otonal chords flatten one note, while utonal chords sharpen one note. The 5-limit otonality is simply a just major chord, and the 5-limit utonality is a just minor chord. Thus otonality and utonality can be viewed as extensions of major and minor tonality respectively.

  6. '50s progression - Wikipedia

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    The vi chord before the IV chord in this progression (creating I–vi–IV–V–I) is used as a means to prolong the tonic chord, as the vi or submediant chord is commonly used as a substitute for the tonic chord, and to ease the voice leading of the bass line: in a I–vi–IV–V–I progression (without any chordal inversions) the bass ...

  7. Chord-scale system - Wikipedia

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    The chord-scale system may be compared with other common methods of improvisation, first, the older traditional chord tone/chord arpeggio method, and where one scale on one root note is used throughout all chords in a progression (for example the blues scale on A for all chords of the blues progression: A 7 E 7 D 7).

  8. Barbershop music - Wikipedia

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    This is when a chord is altered by a change in one or more non-melodic voices. [4] Occasional passages may be sung by fewer than four voice parts. Barbershop music is generally performed by either a barbershop quartet , a group of four typically male singers with one on each vocal part, or a barbershop chorus , which closely resembles a choir ...

  9. Uke - Wikipedia

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    Uke (martial arts), role in training Uke, a submissive role in a relationship between males in yaoi or shōnen-ai media, derived from the martial arts term; Ukulele, a musical instrument Mighty Uke, a 2010 documentary film about the ukulele; Üké, Uke, or Ükä Tibetan, a term for the most widely understood dialect of Tibetan languages