The History Of Jazz Piano

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Bella Ortiz
Mica Clements
Piano Extra Writeup
12/19/18
The History of Jazz Piano The piano is one of the most listened to instruments in music. In almost every genre of music, the piano is involved in one form or another. In the genre of jazz music, the piano plays a significant role in how jazz became popular. The pPiano can be used as a solo, lead or an accompanying instrument. When played in jazz music, the piano has the rhythmic capabilities of sounding like a full orchestra. For the genre of classical music, improvements to the music took over 100 years to increase, but for jazz piano music, it increased rapidly over 10 years and continues to grow today. New styles of jazz piano music are being invented and the developments are …show more content…

It is considered to be one of the first stations in the history of jazz piano music. Although it was very popular, the station faded away after 20 or so years. The radio station consisted of 4 different types of jazz piano music, but only one style from “Ragtime” is still actually listened to today. The jazz music played on this station was known for its march-tempo pieces. Most songs also consisted of a steady left hand playing bass in the first and third beats and the chords in the second and the fourth beats. Because the music was played in this manner, it was easy to groove to. The left hand accented the second and fourth beats instead of the first and third ones showing a significant difference from commonly played classical …show more content…

Jazz piano changed its entire sound slowly from Ragtime to blues. In the early 1900’s, a new era of piano jazz began to emerge. Most of the sheet music was composed very differently from the sheets that were written in the late 1800’s. Normally in classical music, only a specific set of notes are used, and rarely are the flats and sharps integrated into the music. In this new era of jazz piano, sharps and flats were being composed into almost every single song. All of the odd sounding notes that were not normally used, were being added to jazz piano increasing the popularity of the

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