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Encyclopedia > Bass run

A bass run is an instrumental break in which the main vocal or melody line rests (pauses, takes a "break") and the bass instruments and line are given the forefront. The technique seems to have originated in the marches of the "Sousa school", though its resemblance to call and response techniques familiar to African American musicians indicates an earlier origin. (van der Merwe 1989, p.283) In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... Look up Melody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary In music, a melody is a series of linear events or a succession, not a simultaneity as in a chord. ... Bass (IPA: [], rhyming with face), when used as an adjective, describes tones of low frequency. ... A bassline is a series of notes with tones that are low in pitch or frequency. ... This article is about music. ... John Philip Sousa John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 - March 6, 1932), is probably the most famous marching band conductor (although his band rarely marched) and composer in history. ... African American music (also called black music, formerly known as race music) is an umbrella term given to a range of musical genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African Americans, who have long constituted a large ethnic minority of the population of the United States. ...


See also: walking bass. In jazz, blues, rock, Baroque music, and other musical genres, a walking bass is a bass accompaniment consisting of unsyncopated notes of equal value, usually quarter notes. ...


Source

  • van der Merwe, Peter (1989). Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0193161214.

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