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Definitions: Bebop |
BebopNoun1. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940). Verb1. Dance the bebop. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Bebop or bop is a form of jazz which uses a fast tempo and complex improvisational techniques. It was introduced in the 1940s.
Many bebop tunes were based on chord progressions (also called chord changes) from popular songs. The chord changes to the song "I Got Rhythm" by George Gershwin were so often used that they get their own name, "rhythm changes". Jazz solos had always been improvised over song chords, but entirely new compositions based on chord changes was an innovation.
The typical bebop combo consisted of bass, drums, and piano, with two horn players up front. The classic 1940s bebop combo was Charlie Parker on alto sax, Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet, Max Roach on drums, Percy Heath on bass, and Bud Powell on piano.
The name bebop (briefly called rebop) is an imitation of a characteristic quick two-note phrase that was played together by the lead instruments to introduce a solo or end a song.
Other notable musicians identified with bebop:
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Synonym: BebopSynonym: bop (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bebop |
| English words defined with "bebop": beat generation, beatniks, beats, bop ♦ Dizzy Gillespie ♦ Gillespie ♦ John Birks Gillespie ♦ monk ♦ Sarah Vaughan ♦ Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Sphere Monk ♦ Vaughan. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bebop" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (bop). |
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Screenplays | You know, it just occurred to me that bebop was invented by the cats who did get out of the army. ('Round Midnight; writing credit: David Rayfiel; Bertrand Tavernier) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cowboy Bebop (1998) | |
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 | A straight-ahead jazz excerpt featuring a trumpet played in a bebop style reminiscent of an early Miles Davis piece. | | A fast tenor saxophone playing in a late bebop style. |
| A soprano saxophone solo in a bebop style. | ||
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| "Bebop" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Bebop" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.31% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 7.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
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Ending with "bebop": arch-bebop. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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| Language | Translations for "bebop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | táncfajta, dzsesszfajta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ebopbay variedade de jazz. (various references) род джазовой музыки, бибоп. (various references) be-bop (bop). (various references) เพลงแจ๊สประเ ทหนึ่ง. (various references) caz müzik türü. (various references) бібоп. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "bebop": bebopper, beboppers, bebops. (additional references) | |
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"Bebop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Babkov, babo, beba, bebic, bebos, beebop, behop, belbo, Bembo, bepop, bevo, biop. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-e-o-p" | |
-2 letters: bob, bop, ebb, obe, ope. | |
-3 letters: be, bo, oe, op, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-e-o-p" | |
+1 letter: bebops. | |
+3 letters: bebopper, probable. | |
+4 letters: beboppers, probables, superbomb. | |
+5 letters: barbershop, bibliopegy, bibliopole, improbable, subproblem, superbombs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 62 6F 70 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . -... --- .--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100010 01101111 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e b o p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0062 006F 0070 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3671688182 |
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