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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| City blues singers were usually accompanied by other performers, usually a pianist or a small ensemble. County blues singers usually accompanied themselves on __________ | show 🗑
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| The majority of women blues singers, such as Bessie Smith, were associated with __________ | show 🗑
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| The essence of the early jazz instrumental combo sound is _________ | show 🗑
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| show | False - they do not have a tenor sax in the early jazz combo
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| Trumperter Joe "King" Oliver led an all-star New Orleans group in Chicago called the ___________ | show 🗑
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| In 1917, the first instrumental jazz recording was released by _______________ | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | False - Storyville was the "red-light district"
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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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| show | Piano rolls
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| The stongest rhythm instrument in New Orleans early jazz groups was the _________ | show 🗑
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| Cutting contests were ... | show 🗑
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| show | Trumpet, Clarinet, and Trombone
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| show | Piano, Drums, Banjo, Tuba
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| True or False: Jazz emerged as a true musical form around the beginning of the 20th century in the southern United States. | show 🗑
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| A European song form that features a series of verses telling a story, sung to a repeating melody is called _______ | show 🗑
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| The term "call and response" came from the earlier terms ____________ | show 🗑
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| True or False: The majority of the instruments used in jazz music originated in Africa. | show 🗑
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| show | The cakewalk
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| show | Spirituals
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| True or False: Because of the institution of slavery, African and European cultures collided which brought about new musical styles and eventually led to the birth of jazz music. | show 🗑
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| In America, beginning in the 1700s, the English _________ was a very popular type of song that featured melodies designed to be simple and eary to remember. | show 🗑
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| show | Collective experience
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| show | False. The Enghlish Protestants did not allow that at all. Slave owners in the Caribbean/South America were more tolerant
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| The __________ and ____________ were European-American couple dances of the 19th century. | show 🗑
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| True or False: African slaves that were sent to Latin America slave ports in the Caribbean and South American found that the Spanish/Port music that existed there was similar in many ways to their native African music. | show 🗑
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| show | Polyrhythm
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| show | Brass band
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| The "catchy" section of a song that has a fixed melody with text inserted in between verses of a song is often called the __________ | show 🗑
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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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| Minstrel shows used a type of ________ to accompany songs and dances. | show 🗑
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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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| True or False: Native African music favors vocal growling, buzzing tones, and low-pitched sounds. | show 🗑
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| show | pitch
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| show | A through G
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| show | Higher
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| show | True
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| show | Measure
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| The rate of speed of a musical composition is its ________ | show 🗑
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| show | Chord
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| show | Interval
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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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| Many traditional popular songs, as well as jazz pieces featuring improvisation, use the 32-bar structure of _________ | show 🗑
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| show | syncopation
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| The "B" section of a standard 32-bar composition is known as the ________ | show 🗑
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| __________, is to compose and perform at the same time. | show 🗑
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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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| An emphasized note or chord that is played louder to make it stand out from other notes or chords is called an _________ | show 🗑
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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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| When the volume of a piece gradually becomes louder, it is called a _______ | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | Contour
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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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| Early jazz clarinetist ________ was one of the first reed players to utilize the soprano saxophone. | show 🗑
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| show | James P. Johnson
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| show | Fats Waller
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| show | True
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| _________ innovated a more "modern jazz-like" style of piano playing which was more flexible than ragtime or stride. | show 🗑
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| Between 1924 and 1930, ________ and the Hot Five and the Hot Seven recorded some of the most innovative and influential early jazz music. | show 🗑
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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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| show | False. There was rarely a string section in the group
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| show | Louis Armstrong
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| show | False. The early jazz combo is broken up into the rhythm section and the horn section.
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| show | Bix Beiderbecke
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| show | Saxophone, string bass
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| show | Scat singing
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| show | There are silences between accented chords for a soloist to fill
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| Pianist and big band leader, ___________ is one of the most important figures in jazz history due to his prolific and innovative compositions and arrangements. | show 🗑
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| show | False. Benny Goodman was the "King of Swing"
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| show | Benny Goodman
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| show | Shout chorus
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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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| The most popular style in jazz history was ______ | show 🗑
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| show | A-A-B-A
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| show | Dissonance
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| Jazz, blues and rock tunes often employ a short, repeated instrumental melody called a _______ | show 🗑
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| show | Tutti
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| One complete playing-through of the form of a piece, used as the basic framework for improvised solos, is called a ______ | show 🗑
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| show | Shout chorus
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| _________ is the rapid fluctuation in pitch that gives intensity and warmth to a sustained tone. | show 🗑
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| show | Blues form
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| __________ is to compose and perform at the same time. | show 🗑
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| show | Two beat
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| show | Swing
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| show | Chord progression
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| The portion of a piece (usually near the end of a chorus) in which all band members stop playing for only one or two bars, except for the soloist, is called a ________ | show 🗑
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| show | Timbre
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| show | Beat
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| show | Jelly Roll Morton
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| show | Bix Beiderbecke
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| show | Scott Joplin
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| show | Louis Armstrong
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| show | Original Dixieland Jazz Band
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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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| Pre-jazz trumpet player who was the most popular New Orleans musician by 1900 and an influence on later trumpeters, but by 1906 he slowly going insane and was committed to a mental institute for the rest of his life. | show 🗑
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| show | Fats Waller
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| Know as "The Empress of the Blues", this singer became a star in the 1920s due to her powerful voice and recordings with Louis Armstrong. | show 🗑
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| show | James P. Johnson
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| show | Joe "King" Oliver
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