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  2. Glossary of jazz and popular music - Wikipedia

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    A synonym for distortion. With vocals, acoustic instruments, front of house mixes, and monitor mixes, clipping is almost always deemed to be undesirable, and it is minimized by reducing gain levels, using compression devices, adding "pads" (attenuation circuits), etc.

  3. List of musical band types - Wikipedia

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    In music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform music. Some types of musical bands are: Some types of musical bands are: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.

  4. Musical ensemble - Wikipedia

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    A musical ensemble, also known as a music group, musical group, or a band is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name. Some music ensembles consist solely of instrumentalists, such as the jazz quartet or the orchestra .

  5. List of jazz genres - Wikipedia

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    The name given to the renewed interest in swing music from the 1930s and 40s. Many neo-swing bands practiced contemporary fusions of swing, jazz, and jump blues with rock, punk rock, ska, and ska punk music or had roots in punk, ska, ska punk, and alternative rock music. 1990s -> Jazz noir [4] A form of slow or erratic contemporary jazz.

  6. List of all-female bands - Wikipedia

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    A band is a group of musicians who are organized for ensemble playing. An all-female band is a band which has consisted entirely of female musicians for at least three-quarters of its active career. This article only lists all-female bands who perform original material that is either authored by themselves or authored by another musician for ...

  7. Band - Wikipedia

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    Band (rock and pop), a small ensemble that plays rock or pop; Concert band, an ensemble of woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments; Dansband, band playing popular music for a partner-dancing audience; Jazz band, a musical ensemble that plays jazz music; Marching band, a group of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors

  8. Heavy metal genres - Wikipedia

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    Alternative metal band Life of Agony. Alternative metal is a style of heavy metal and alternative rock which emerged in the mid-1980s and gained popularity in the early 1990s. [1] Alternative metal usually combines heavy metal with influences from genres like alternative rock, and in some cases, other genres not normally associated with metal ...

  9. Math rock - Wikipedia

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    The albums Red and Discipline by King Crimson, [7] [8] as well as Spiderland by Slint, [9] are generally considered seminal influences on the development of math rock. The Canadian punk rock group Nomeansno (founded in 1979 and inactive as of 2016) have been cited by music critics as a "secret influence" on math rock, [10] predating much of the genre's development by more than a decade.