rebop
9.9
Fast, lively jazz with quick notes and skilled solos
- noun
- /ˈriːbɒp/
- Archaic
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rebop
Examples
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- How about cutting the rebop!
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- Rebop.
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Rebop.
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Rebop.
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Many musicians believe that mastering the rebop style is essential for any serious jazz artist.
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At the club last night, the band played an energetic set filled with rebop that kept the audience dancing.
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The rebop music echoed through the streets, attracting jazz enthusiasts from all over the city.
Synonyms
bebop
vsrebop
16
8.2
A fast, complex style of jazz where musicians make up music as they play
is a similar variant that borrows the same fast tempo and complex improvisation
bop
vsrebop
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8.4
An early jazz style with a fast beat and quick, unplanned solos
is a later style closely modeled on that early fast improvisational form
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rebop comes from re- meaning 'again' and the short jazz word bop, like in bebop, which names a fast, lively jazz sound. So rebop means a new or revived form of that quick, complex jazz style.