jazz

southern states of USA

after absoluation of slavery

influenced by afro- amercian

literally means ragged time

syncapted meoldy agaisnt regular bass

piano music

simple funstional harmoney and regular cadences

LH vamp pattern in duple time- LH leaps become wider (stride bass)

single notes or 8ves on th beat

structure influenced by march 4x16

AABBCCDD- c section usually in sub dominant rags end in v key

short introductions sometimes in unison

4 bar links between the sections

passing chromatics in melody

harmoney is decorated

associated with area round new orleans

pixeland

mardi gras, festivals and funerals

early pieces instruments palyed soem emldy line hetrophonic with piano as a harmonic support

pieces consisted of improvised variations of themes and thier harmonies

theme is often a jazz standard

pieces are rarely notated aural tradition

harmoney complexity increases with time based on classic blues sequence