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In jazz, gospel, soul, and musical theater, a vamp is a repeating musical figure or accompaniment.V(7) (in the key of C, this would be d minor and G 7 or F to G).Jazz, fusion, and latin jazz
In jazz, fusion, and related genres, such as latin jazz, a background vamp provides a performer with a harmonic framework upon which to improvise.Vamps are also used as the endings of some songs, in which case they may also be referred to as the coda or "tag" of the tune.In Take Five, the repeated, syncopated figure with which pianist Dave Brubeck introduces the tune, and which he plays with his left hand throughout, is a vamp."Maiden Voyage" and "Cantaloupe Island".Jazz scholar Barry Kernfeld calls this music "Vamp Music.""Impressionist" style of Classical music of Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy.Gospel, soul, and funk
In gospel and soul music, the band will often vamp on a simple ostinato groove at the end of a song, usually over a single chord.For recordings, the sound engineers will gradually fade out the vamp section at the end of a song, to make the transition to the next track on the album.Salsoul singers such as Loleatta Holloway have become notable for their vocal improvisations at the end of songs, and they are sampled and used in other songs.Funky Drummer by James Brown, for example).Unlike these music genres, funk is based on the rhythmic groove of the percussion, rhythm section instruments, and a deep electric bass line, usually all over a single chord.Musical theater
In musical theater, a vamp is a figure of one or more measures which the orchestra repeats during dialogue or stage business, to provide musical accompaniment for onstage transitions which are of indeterminate length.The score will provide a one or two bar vamp figure, and indicate "vamp till cue" by the conductor.The vamp gives the onstage singers time to prepare for the song or the next verse, without either requiring the music to pause.Once the vamp section is completed, the music will continue on to the next section.The term vamp has another meaning in music, which is "to improvise simple accompaniment or variation of a tune."Outside of music, the noun vamp means "something patched up or refurbished" or "something rehashed, as a book based on old material."Similarly, outside of music, the verb "vamp" means "to put together, fabricate or improvise": "With no hard news available about the summit meeting, the reporters vamped up questions based only on rumor."These other meanings are related to the musical meaning, in that a musical vamp is a "fabricated" or "improvised" "rehash" of standard, stock musical phrases.Arranging Music for the Real World: Classical and Commercial Aspects.Plot:
Two fraternity pledges go to a sleazy bar looking for strippers to entertain their college friends.They have problems with transportation...Thank you, your vote will be counted and appear on this page within 24 hours.In any case, this movie is a
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Music, Queen Mary, University of London.Theda Bara was the first official vamp of the movies, which was, no doubt, a major switch from the virginal quality held by the other film actresses of the time.Up until about 1909, most actresses were not known by name, which meant there were movies but no stars, just actors, which was a gig to save money.Up until 1909, actresses were no different than a regular woman, except actresses had heavily kholed eyes and dark purple lipstick to register on film properly.The first Vamp was born.Her stare is something else.Very few actresses can stare right through you in such an alluring way, especially when not seen in person.In other words, the Theda Bara we have come to know through photographs alone looks like what you see below.The slightly scary looking dark woman of the picture is Theda Bara, but, oddly enough, so is the Madonna in the picture below.You can tell both pictures share a resemblence, a striking one in fact, but while one woman is a long nailed, long haired, tousled, half undressed sex goddess, the other is a neat and prim Biblical figure with proper attire and a baby.Likewise, we can compare these two pictures.This is where things get interesting.Here we have Theda as a prim little belle who could pass for something out of a Louisia May Alcott book any day of the week, and Theda as a frightened, almost beastly looking being who could almost pass as a drag queen who looks almost as if she's selling herself, so to speak, for money.OK, so we've seen Theda as a Vamp, an angel, a belle, and a prostitute.And, queerly enough, she looks convincing in each pose!This helps us to recognize that she was good in all sorts of roles, and that statement can only apply to a good actress.Not so much a Vamp after all.But, nevertheless, that was Theda's screen persona.Over the years, with each new decade changing the film industry, the image of the Vamp has changed.But more often than not, the idea is the same.When Theda quietly retired, Clara Bow took her place.Did you ever notice that, in pictures, how even if the Vamp doesn't get what she wants she gets very close every time?Today, there aren't really any Vamps.Theda's influence can be seen even today, with Liv Tyler and Neve Campbell and some others carrying the torch, waiting for another to come along to take it and carry it and so on.Coming soon to a computer screen near you...It is capable of calculating many physical and chemical molecular properties very rapidly.VAMP is optimized to be numerically stable and fast, enabling most calculations to be run interactively on a PC.Myth
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I have most recently added Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 'The Mortal Immortal'...Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire', the full text of Vikram and the Vampire, and Johann Ludwig Tieck's 'Wake Not The Dead'.Vampire Poetry:
Burger's 'Lenore', Goethe's 'Bride of Corinth' and Stagg's 'Thalaba the Destroyer'.Heinrich August Ossenfelder : Der Vampir (1748), Rudyard Kipling : The Vampire (1897), Thomas Hardy's 'The Vampirine Fair', Charles Baudelaire's "Metamorphoses du Vampire", John Stagg's "The Vampyre" and William Butler Yeats' "Oil and Blood" and John Keats' 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'.Vampire History and Myth:
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