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jazz
jazz
A style of music of Afro-American roots characterized by a strong rythmic understructure, blue notes, and improvisation on melody and chord structure.
jig
jig
The jig (= French: gigue; Italian: giga), a lively dance in compound time, became the usual final dance of the baroque dance suite.
jota
jota
The jota is a traditional Spanish dance, transmuted into an orchestral composition by the Russian composer Glinka in his Jota aragonesa.
Jubilate
Jubilate
A hymn of praise, usually based on Psalm 100.
just intonation
just intonation
Any system of tuning in which all intervals are pure (represented by ratios of small whole numbers) rather than tempered.