different between bebop vs contrafact

English

Etymology

From nonsense syllables used in scat singing, 1940s.

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bi?b?p/

Noun

bebop (uncountable)

1. (music) An early form of modern jazz played by small groups and featuring driving rhythms and complex, often dissonant harmonies.

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Verb

bebop (third-person singular simple present bebops, present participle bebopping, simple past and past participle bebopped)

1. (intransitive) To participate in bebop jazz, such as by dancing in a way associated with the genre.
2. (intransitive, usually with a directional preposition) To walk in an easygoing, carefree manner.
   • 1986, Steve Estes, Called to Die: The Story of American Linguist Chet Bitterman, Slain by Terrorists, Zondervan Publishing Company (?ISBN)

     Typically one could spot Chet bebopping down the sidewalk in an Amish hat, or hunched over a cafeteria table discussing Calvinism or the Vietnam war.

   • 2001, Patsy Clairmont, The Best Devotions of Patsy Clairmont, Zondervan Publishing Company (?ISBN)

     I can't even say it was the people who board and casually whack off the top of your head with their slung-over-the-shoulder carry-ons as they obliviously bebop down the aisle to locate their seats.

   • 2013, Beth Kendrick, The Week Before the Wedding, Penguin (?ISBN)

     Summer bebopped over, holding a cup of spiked punch in each hand.

Derived terms

• bebopper

Further reading

• bebop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Noun

bebop

1. bebop

Declension

Spanish

Noun

bebop m (uncountable)

1. bebop

Swedish

Etymology

From English bebop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?b?p/

Noun

bebop c (uncountable)

1. (jazz) bebop

Declension

Synonyms

• bop

References

• bebop in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Noun

contrafact (plural contrafacts)

1. A new musical composition built out of an already existing one, most often a new melody overlaid on a familiar harmonic structure. An important part of the development of bebop. Contrafacts are not to be confused with musical quotations, which borrow rhythms or melodies from an existing composition.

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See also

• contrafact on Wikipedia.Wikipedia