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Keywords: soloist, musician, singer, sings, solo

Comes from song leaders and choirs in West Africa. Song leader calls out a phrase and choir responds with a musical phrase. Can also occur between a singer and instruments.

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A musical conversation in which instrumentalists and/or vocalists answer one another.

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A style of music where a lead singer or musician performs a solo line of music, which is "answered" by a group of musicians with another line of music. The solo and group continue to alternate in this fashion.

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while the leader sings a solo, the group answers and repeats a line without change until the concluding phrase.

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question and answer pattern in which a soloist leads and group responds

basicmusic.net

A musical device in which one musician plays a phrase and another musician plays a related phrase in response

outsideshore.com

a song style that follows a simple question/answer pattern in which one singer leads and a group responds

ket.org

a structural device most often associated with African dance and musical forms, one soloist or group performs, and the second soloist or group performs in response to the first[ Back

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a structural device that derives from the work songs of Afro-American slaves; a soloist sings or plays, and a group or second soloist replies

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Performance style with a singing leader who is imitated by a chorus of followers. Also responsorial singing.

essentialsofmusic.com

A means whereby instruments or sections of instruments in a band or combo play a passage which is in turn responded to by another instrument or section; a musical conversation: one musician or section will play a short melodic idea and is answered by another musician or section.

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Echoing e.g. teacher sings a line, children respond by copying or with another predetermined answer.

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An African tradition which refers to a dance leader who calls out or demonstrates dance steps to which the group responds by repeating or performing the correct steps or combination.

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A structure that is most often associated with African music and dance forms, although it is also used elsewhere. One soloist/group performs with the second soloist/group entering "in response" to the first.

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A choreographic form in which one soloist or group performs, with the second soloist or group entering in response to the first.

bced.gov.bc.ca

In music, a call and response is a succession of two distinct phrases usually played by different musicians, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or response to the first. It corresponds to the call-and-response pattern in human communication and is found in many traditions.

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Keywords: bleak, anthems, desperation, soaring, anger

an album of soaring anthems that would express the same anger and bleak desperation were it entirely instrumental

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Keywords: ericcll, smitherman, californian, punctuated, foster

Call and response is a form of "spontaneous verbal and non-verbal interaction between speaker and listener in which all of the statements ('calls') are punctuated by expressions ('responses') from the listener", as stated by Smitherman. http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/0204foster.html

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Call and Response (C.A.R.) is a Californian pop band.

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