a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles | musical activity (singing or whistling etc.) |
a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands | punishment for one's actions |
empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds |
| (music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds) |
| an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner |