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Jazz: A Short HistoryJazz in sharing these changes would also follow this pattern - many experiments and musical directions constituting not one dominant style but many directions of exploration and influence. What is common and universal are the demands on the listener as these trends redefined or abandoned long developing musical landmarks. The listener had to actively study and assimilate the new landmarks to make sense of the new music - it was a new language. 14 Which Way Now? One on the consistent and fundamental aspects of the Jazz Genre was its basis in utilizing preexisting material and styles - it was the distinctive manner of performance which identified the particular jazz style. This nature of this material, in many ways, defined the particular jazz style: spirituals, hymns, marches, blues, dance tunes, popular songs [to name a few]. The general characteristics were a melody oriented music, a distillation of 19th Century European Music, and to varying degrees a reflection of middle-class American musical taste. Jazz began with this fundamental characteristic and evolved within its strictures until the 1960’s ...» |
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