At 12:28 PM 1/21/97 -0500, you wrote:
>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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