swing music
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3.9
- noun
- /swɪŋ ˈmjuːzɪk/
:
música swing
- Particularly, Navy band musicians were well trained in various genres of music in order to accommodate varying requests ranging from symphonic and swing music to jazz band performances at dance halls.
- big band swing music
- swing music and jazz
Examples
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Oddly, he said, none of the serious stuff he'd been listening to all his adult life put him into emotional motion the way that old swing music now did: "Everything stoical within me unclenches and the wish not to die, never to die, is almost too great to bear."
Fiction book (2001) -
Marshall's montage sequences fly by with the help of pounding swing music.
Blog text (3) -
Or listen to some swing music.
Academic text (1997) -
He played me a lot of stuff with Grandma, like a lot of Western swing music when I was very little.
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The original Lindy is a perfect evocation of the swing music of the 1930s-1940s.
Academic text (1999) -
Quinn stood at the mezzanine bar, tapping his foot to the swing music coming over the loudspeakers, listening to the clarinets blaring out a challenge.
Fiction book (1995) -
In Spain there was civil war; here there was only hot swing music and liquor, dance halls, bars and movies and sex, which hung in the gloom like a chandelier and fluttered the world with brief, deceptive rainbows.
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At 3 p.m., a band concert began, featuring the lively rhythms of swing music that young Serling once enjoyed.
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Quinn stood at the mezzanine bar, tapping his foot to the swing music coming over the loudspeakers, while the clarinets played their upbeat melodies.
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The original Lindy perfectly captures the essence of swing music as it was played in the 1930s and 1940s.
Synonyms
273
1.0
A lively music style with a strong beat where players make up parts while playing
60
4.8
A lively jazz music style with a strong rhythm
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8.4
A lively jazz style played by big bands in the 1930s
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1.4
Music with a strong beat that people dance to at parties
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a style of jazz characterized by a strong rhythmical drive' is directly compositional from 'swing' (a jazz style) + 'music' — a straightforward noun-noun compound whose meaning is simply music of the swing style. This follows common lexical compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Swing music gets its name from the word swing, which describes a rolling, long, short rhythm that makes people want to move and dance. That's why 'swing music' refers to the lively jazz style played by big bands in the 1930s and 1940s.