History of Jazz
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| ____________ was the most prolific ragtime composer. | show 🗑
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| show | Country Blues
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| show | Guitar
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| show | City blues
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| show | collective improvisation
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| True or False: New Orleans instrumental bands usually have a tuba, banjo, trumpet, clarinet, guitar and a tenor saxophone. | show 🗑
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| Trumperter Joe "King" Oliver led an all-star New Orleans group in Chicago called the ___________ | show 🗑
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| show | The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
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| show | True
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| True or False: Storyville was an area within the city of New Orleans where many people wrote books about early jazz music. | show 🗑
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| show | Buddy Bolden
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| show | False. Louis Armstrong was mentored by Joe "King" Oliver
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| In the early days of Ratime, performances were preserved on _________ | show 🗑
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| show | Banjo
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| show | competitions between instrumentalists which were judged by the audience
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| List the "horn" section of a standard "New Orleans style" instrumental jazz band (early jazz combo) | show 🗑
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| What was the "rhythm" section of a standard "New Orleans style" instrumental jazz band (early jazz combo) | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | Strophic
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| The term "call and response" came from the earlier terms ____________ | show 🗑
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| show | False. The majority of the instruments originated in the Americas
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| show | The cakewalk
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| show | Spirituals
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| show | True
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| show | Ballad
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| An important element of Africa's musical tradition is the ___________, where all people who are present at a musical gathering are active participants, not just listeners. | show 🗑
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| True or False: The English Protestant slave owners were very open-minded, relaxed, and tolerant with their slaves and left them relatively free to continue their musical practices and native rituals. | show 🗑
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| The __________ and ____________ were European-American couple dances of the 19th century. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | Polyrhythm
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| show | Brass band
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| show | Chorus
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| True or False: Early pre-blues style music featured extremely religious songs that were notated on sheet music, and performed by hightly trained musicians. | show 🗑
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| Beginning in the 1840s, _____________ became a very popular form of entertainment featuring song, dance, and comedy by white performers in "blackface" that portrayed African Americans as stupid and ridiculous. | show 🗑
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| In African music, repetition is regarded as an aesthetic strength and many forms are constructed of short phrases recurring in a regular cycle called __________ | show 🗑
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| In New Orleans during the late-1700s and early-1800s Creoles of Color, whose ancestry was ___________ and African, began to be regarded as a class thaa was separate from whites and slaves. | show 🗑
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| show | Instruments, Military Marches, Church Hymns, Folk Songs/Dance, Classical Compositions
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| show | String Band
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| True or False: Military "brass band" concerts were a popular form of entertainment during the post-civil war era. | show 🗑
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| show | Habanera ryhythm
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| The most popular American songwriter of the 19th centruy was _________, who wrote the lyrics and music to over 200 songs. | show 🗑
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| show | New Orleans
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| show | True
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| show | pitch
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| show | A through G
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| A sharp in front of a note means that note is ________ in pitch. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| Rhythm is usally organized into smaller units, each having consistent number of beats. Each of these units is called a bar or a _______ | show 🗑
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| show | Tempo
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| Three or more pitches sounding simultaneously comprise a ________ | show 🗑
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| The musical term referring to the distance between two pitches is _______ | show 🗑
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| show | Dynamics
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| _________ is a term used to describe the tone color or tone quality of a voice or instrument. | show 🗑
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| show | A-A-B-A
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| show | syncopation
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| show | Bridge
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| show | Improvisation
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| ________ is a colorful and sometimes displeasing sound created by utilizing notes with clash. | show 🗑
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| Jazz, blues and rock tunes often employ a short, fragmented, and repeated melody called a ______ | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | Woodwind
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| show | Accent
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| A standard blues form is ______ measures long. | show 🗑
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| Blue notes are made by ... | show 🗑
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| show | Crescendo
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| show | True
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| A written melody forms a linear pattern on the staff called the _______ | show 🗑
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| True or False: Form in music is based upon principles of repetition and contrast. | show 🗑
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| True or False: New Orleans was the ideal site for the birth of jazz because it was an intensely musical city with a history of rich ethnic diversity. | show 🗑
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| show | False. Jelly Roll Morton was the leader of the Red Hot Peppers.
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| ______ was one of the first "jazz" pianists as well as the first important jazz composer, who helped bridge the gap between ragtim and jazz. | show 🗑
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| show | Sidney Bechet
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| _______ is generally considered the "father" of the stride piano style. | show 🗑
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| show | Fats Waller
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| show | True
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| show | Earl Hines
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| show | Louis Armstron
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| True or False: The banjo continued to be a vital instrument in the rhythm section of a big band. | show 🗑
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| show | the soloist "fills" for a measure or two while the band is silent.
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| show | Duke Ellington
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| ________ became very important during the swing era, because big utilized many more musicians than an early jazz combo and did not focus on collective improvision. | show 🗑
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| True or False: The term "orchestra" in describing a big band meant that there was always a string section in the group. | show 🗑
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| _______, often called the "Father of Jazz", performed early jazz music most of his career and became famous as an international personality and "musical ambassador". | show 🗑
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| True or False: The "big band" of the Swing Era is made up of two sections, the rhythm section and the horn section. | show 🗑
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| Born and raised in Iowa, trumpeter _________ became an influential soloist despite his short career. He is often regared as the the first 'true' white jazz artist. | show 🗑
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| __________ and _________ replaced the clarinet and tuba from early jazz groups, during the swing era. | show 🗑
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| Louis Armstrong innovated and popularized ________, a vocal technique in which lyrics are not used, and the voice improvises in the manner of a horn player. | show 🗑
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| show | There are silences between accented chords for a soloist to fill
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| show | Duke Ellington
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| show | False. Benny Goodman was the "King of Swing"
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| show | Benny Goodman
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| A _________ is a loud, climatic section of a big band arrangement in which the horn sections combine and exchange melodies and themes. | show 🗑
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| New York pianist and band leader _______ was known more for his arranging, and credited with infusing "black jazz" into "white popular music" during the swing era. | show 🗑
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| show | Benny Goodman Orch.
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| show | False
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| show | Swing
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| Many traditional popular songs, as well as jazz featuring improvisions, use the 32-bar structure of ________ | show 🗑
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| show | Dissonance
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| show | Riff
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| show | Tutti
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| show | Chorus
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| show | Shout chorus
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| show | Vibrato
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| Whether it is sung or played; in this structure one can usually hear three phrases consisting of 12-bars, and an accompaniment made of three chords (I-IV-V). This is the most basic type of ________ | show 🗑
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| show | Improvisation
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| show | Two beat
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| _________ is a relaxed rhythmic feeling found in most jazz, produced by the division of the beat into a long-short pattern. | show 🗑
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| Improvising soloists must continually fit their notes into the flowing accompanying harmony called the __________ | show 🗑
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| show | Break
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| show | Timbre
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| Music often has a pulse. The unit of pulse is called a ______ | show 🗑
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| show | Jelly Roll Morton
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| Midwestern trumpeter recognized today as one of the first important white jazz artists, despite his very short life. | show 🗑
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| Pioneering pre-jazz pianist known for being the most famous and prolific composer of ragtime music. | show 🗑
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| show | Louis Armstrong
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| Early jazz group that was organized in Chicago and consisted of five white New Orleans musicians. They were the first group in history to record instrumental jazz. | show 🗑
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| Early jazz clarinetist who was one of the first reed players to utilize the soprano saxophone. He was noted for his foreful playing and pronounced vibrato. | show 🗑
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| Early jazz pianist who significantly influenced piano playing styles in the 1930s and 40s with his "modern" style. His very aggressive playing was often termed "brassy" or "horn-like". | show 🗑
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| show | Buddy Bolden
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| show | Fats Waller
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| show | Bessie Smith
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| show | James P. Johnson
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| show | Joe "King" Oliver
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