break

Japanese: break
break

...Of particular importance among these are the blues scale (the third and seventh notes of a major key, i.e., E and B are a semitone lower) and chord progression (tonic → subdominant → tonic → dominant → tonic). Also, blues vocals usually leave one and a half bars out of the four bars of each line as a space called a "break," which the accompanying instruments decorate with a short cadenza. The break later developed into jazz solo improvisation. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "break" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…このなかで特に重要なのは,ブルースに使われるブルース音階(長調の3度と7度の音,すなわちミとシが半音ちかく下がる音階)とコード進行(主音→下属音→主音→属音→主音)である。またブルース・ボーカルは,ふつう各段4小節のうち残りの1小節半を〈ブレークbreak〉と呼ぶ余白として残したが,伴奏楽器はここを短いカデンツァで飾った。ブレークはのち,ジャズのソロ・インプロビゼーションへ発展する。…

※「break」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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