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Humanities > Music

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Music  

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  • Sound that expresses emotion through rhythm, melody, and harmony. A form of music that is rapidly spoken instead of sung and that is accompanied by rhythm. A form of music developed in the early 1920s characterized by string rhythms and improvisatory solos. A serious and conventional form of music involving orchestral movements that was developed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A form of music developed in the 1940s and 1950s and derived from jazz and other forms of rhythmic music before it.

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