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Swing Speaker's Sourcebook: Kahn's Candid Compendium
Think you know your "licks" from your "charts" and your "bebop" from your "blues?" Richard Kahn, the legendary jazz pianist and educator, has crafted this exclusive jazz glossary for his students – and now for you, fellow music buffs! Dive in and test your rhythmic wits. If you can confidently navigate these "changes," you might just earn your "chops" in the world of jazz. Prepare to swing, scat, and maybe even get a little "funky" with the definitive guide to speaking jazz.
# A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
#
A
- a440
- aaba
- aba
- abab
- a capella
- accent
- accidental
- action
- active pitch
- add 9 chord
- aeolian mode
- Alberti bass
- altered chords
- altered seventh chord
- anacrusis
- “and 1” rhythm
- arpeggio
- articulations
- atonal
- augmentation
- augmented interval
- augmented scale
- augmented triad
- authentic cadence
B
- Backbeat
- bar
- bass
- bass clef
- beam
- beat
- bebop scale
- blues
- blues on the sixth scale degree
- blues on the tonic scale degree
- blues scale
- brace
- bracket
C
- cadence
- cadenza
- cent
- central pitch reference
- Chicago jazz
- Chord
- chord quality grids
- chord symbols
- chorus form
- chromatic
- chromatic scale
- church modes
- circle of fifths
- circular movement
- classic jazz
- clavier
- clef
- close position
- coda
- commercial music
- comping
- compound interval
- compound meter
- conducting
- consonance
- contrapuntal
- conversational phrases
- cool jazz
- counterpoint
- courtesy accidental
- cut time
D
- D.C.
- D.C. al coda
- D.C. al fine
- D.S.
- D.S. al coda
- D.S. al fine
- deceptive cadence
- diatonic
- diatonic scale degree
- diminished interval
- diminished scale
- diminished seventh chord
- diminished triad
- diminution
- dissonance
- Dixieland jazz
- dominant
- dominant seventh chord
- dorian mode
- dot
- dotted note
- double augmented interval
- double barline
- double diminished interval
- double flat
- double sharp
- downbeat
- duplet
E
F
- F clef
- Fifth
- figured bass
- fine
- first ending
- first inversion
- flag
- flat
- functional harmony
- fundamental
G
H
- half cadence
- half diminished seventh chord
- half step
- harmonic function
- harmonic interval
- harmonic minor
- harmonic tendency
- harmonics
- harmony
- homophony
- hook
I
- ii – V – I
- imitation
- imperfect cadence
- improvisation
- interval
- interval inversion
- interval number
- interval quality
- interval size
- interval type
- intonation
- inversion
- ionian mode
J
K
L
M
- ma6
- major blues
- major interval
- major pentatonic scale
- major scale
- major seventh chord
- major triad
- major-minor seventh chord
- measure
- mediant
- melodic interval
- melodic minor
- melodic tendency
- melody
- meter
- metronome
- mi6 chord
- minor blues
- minor interval
- minor pentatonic scale
- minor scale
- minor seventh chord
- minor triad
- minor-major seventh chord
- mixolydian mode
- modal
- modal degree
- mode
- modulation
- motif (motive)
- music
N
- natural
- natural minor
- necessary chord members
- New Orleans jazz
- New York jazz
- nondiatonic pitch
- notation
- note
- notehead
O
P
- parallel major
- parallel minor
- pentatonic scale
- perfect cadence
- perfect interval
- period
- phrase
- phraygish
- phrygian mode
- piano
- pickup note(s)
- pitch
- plagal cadence
- polyphony
- polytonality
- primary triads
- prime
- pure minor natural minor
R
- ragtime
- refrain
- register
- relative major
- relative minor
- repeat
- repetition
- resolution
- rest
- retrograde
- retrograde inversion
- rhythm
- root
- root movement
- root position
S
- scale
- scale degree
- second ending
- second inversion
- section
- segno
- semitone
- sequence
- seventh chord
- sharp
- shuffle eighth notes
- simple interval and interval
- simple meter
- simple verse-chorus form
- slur
- song
- split point
- stable pitch
- staff
- stanza
- staves
- stem
- straight eighth notes
- strophic form
- structural harmony
- subdominant
- submediant
- subtonic
- suffix
- supertonic
- swing eighth notes
- syncopation
- system
T
- tablature
- tempo
- tertian harmony
- tertian triad
- texture
- third
- thorough
- through-composed form
- tie
- tied notes
- timbre
- time signature
- tonality
- tone row
- tonic
- tonic function
- transposition
- treble clef
- triad
- triplet
- tritone
- tumbao
- twelve bar blues