MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Big Band & Swing

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This data descriptor documents a two-level genre classification scheme for metal-music corpus studies derived from Encyclopaedia Metallum’s multi-label genre strings. The scheme assigns each band to one of eleven mutually exclusive primary buckets and, alternatively, to one of seventeen finer-grained sub-categories that separate closely related sub-styles. Classification is implemented by keyword priority on the low…

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type of music ensemble associated with jazz and Swing Era music

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A big band is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s and dominated jazz in the early 1940s when swing was most popular. The term "big band" is also used to describe a genre of music, although this was not the only style of music played by big bands.

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