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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

The jig (= French: gigue; Italian: giga), a lively dance in compound time, became the usual final dance of the baroque dance suite.

jota

The jota is a traditional Spanish dance, transmuted into an orchestral composition by the Russian composer Glinka in his Jota aragonesa.

Jubilate

A hymn of praise, usually based on Psalm 100.

just intonation

Any system of tuning in which all intervals are pure (represented by ratios of small whole numbers) rather than tempered.