Digression (music)

Digression (from Latin digressio , deviation) is a term sometimes used in musicology for a short piece of music that deviates from the usual style of a composer or in which he merges different styles. It is often represented , especially in jazz .

Among the composers who wrote such digressions or digressiones are Franz Cibulka , Franco Oppo and Lennie Tristano with Warne Marsh on the LP Intuition (1949).