David Greene's New Writeups

plural plurals (idea)

1999-11-13T09:30:03Z

A set of two or more sets of size two or greater. A tree containing vertices of degree three or more.

James P. Johnson (person)

1999-11-13T09:29:25Z

The father of stride piano. Johnson influenced such great piano players as Fats Waller and Duke Ellington. His Carolina Shout set the standard for stride.

He is also the composer of Charleston (South Carolina) which lends its name to the famous 1920`s dance step.

Back-beat (thing)

1999-11-13T09:29:24Z

A characteristic of stride piano in which the regular tenth-chord rhythmic bass pattern is interrupted by playing a tenth in place of a chord, and vice-versa.

Sometimes called a "drop" or "interrupted" bass.

stride piano (thing)

1999-11-13T09:29:24Z

The original style of jazz piano, descended from ragtime.

Stride employes tenths rather than octaves. Tenths are often rolled (forward and backward) with backward-tenths being fundamental to the genre. Back-beats are used to break up the octave-chord rhythm. Stride also swings!

James P. Johnson (the father of stride), Fats Waller and Wille (The Lion) Smith are the "big three" stride players.

Judy Carmichael is probably the best-known living performer.

compiler (thing)

1999-11-13T09:15:28Z

Any piece of sotware that translates one source language into a target language, often performing transformations along the way. Usually in reference to software that translates high-level computer source code into machine-dependent object code.