Re: Superimposition
Michael J. Crutcher ( crutcher@tiac.net )
Tue, 21 Jan 1997 21:37:05 -0500 (EST)
>kroger@ucla.edu wrote:
>>
>> What are appoggiaturas, auxilliaries, and cambiatas?
>>
>> Jim
>>
>
>As a Methodist clergyman, I was forbidden to engage in any of these
>until I got married, and then only if I intended to have children who
>could play jazz.
>
>Appogiatura is, I believe, a specific kind of ornamentation of a note
>involving particular surrounding tones, what in jazz we term "neighbor
>notes" but appogiatura is a specific one. Beyond that I would like as
>much as you to hear these terms defined.
>
>I also find the informal use of terms like "riff" "run" etc. confusing.
>Sometimes it seems as though they are different, other times they seem
>interchangable. Common jazz terms like "jump tune" also are hard to get
>clear definition on.
>
>I recognize that defining these terms is very elementary, and that this
>list has some very advanced people on it. Even a good reference source
>for musical terms beyond the classical/"legit" sources (Like Harvard
>Dictionary of Music, which doesn't have "jump tune!") would be useful.
>
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"Appogiatura- A dissonant pitch occurring in a strong metrical
position and resolving byascending or descending step to a consonance in a
relatively weaker metrical position." Harvard Dictionary of Music.
In other words, a passing tone on a strong beat. They are usually
arrived at by leap and resolved by descending step.
Cambiata is a five note igure sith the second note being dissonant
and the third note is consonant.
Auxiliary is an upper or lower neighbor tone.
Mike "author of the paraplegiac minor scale" Crutcher