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Maple Leaf Rag |
Scott Joplin Ragtime The pianist’s left hand maintains the beat while the right hand adds a syncopated melody. |
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Lost Your Head Blues |
Bessie Smith Blues Cornet |
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KoKo |
Charlie Parker Bebop |
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Miles Run the Voodoo Down |
Miles Davis fusion |
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Which of the following composers was not influenced by jazz? |
Arnold Schoenberg |
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Although jazz began in bars and brothels, it is now considered |
an American art form. |
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When a voice is answered by an instrument, or when one instrument (or group of instruments) is answered by a chorus, the pattern is referred to as |
call and response. |
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The immediate sources of jazz include |
All answers are correct. |
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The backbone of a jazz ensemble is its |
rhythm section. |
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Ragtime flourished in the United States |
from the 1890s to about 1915. |
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Ragtime is |
All answers are correct. |
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The poetic and musical form of the blues was popularized in the early years of the twentieth century through the publication of Memphis Blues and St. Louis Blues, composed by |
William C. Handy. |
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The blues |
All answers are correct. |
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The most famous blues singer of the 1920s, known as the "empress of the blues", was |
Bessie Smith. |
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New Orleans style Dixieland flourished in the United States |
from 1900 to 1917. |
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The major center of jazz from about 1900 to 1917 was |
New Orleans |
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The "front line" of a Dixieland group included |
cornet, clarinet, and trombone. |
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The most distinctive feature of New Orleans style jazz was |
collective improvisation by the front line |
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The jazz style called swing flourished in America from |
1935 to 1945. |
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The rhythm section of a swing band normally consisted of |
piano, percussion, guitar, and bass. |
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The typical swing band had about fifteen musicians, grouped into three sections: |
saxophones, brasses, and rhythm. |
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One of the most important solo instruments of the swing era was the |
saxophone |
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Duke Ellington was an important figure in |
swing |
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Bebop differed from earlier jazz forms in that it |
was meant for attentive listening, not dancing |
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Bebop, as a musical style, developed in the |
early 1940s |
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A typical bebop group might include |
a saxophone, a trumpet, and a rhythm section of piano, bass, and percussion. |
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One of the greatest of all jazz improvisers and a towering figure among bebop musicians was the saxophonist |
Charlie Parker |
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A bebop performance generally began and ended with |
a statement of the main theme by one or two soloists in unison. |
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The following can be said about free jazz: |
All answers are correct. |
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Cool jazz |
was related to bop but was calmer and more relaxed in character. |
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Cool jazz emerged |
during the late 1940s and early 50s. |
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The leading figures in the free jazz movement were |
John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. |
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Which of the following is not a characteristic of fusion? |
The percussion section is smaller than in earlier jazz. |
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The bebop musician who spearheaded developments in cool jazz and then jazz rock is |
Miles Davis |
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Early rock grew mainly out of __________, a dance music of African Americans that fused blues, jazz, and gospel styles. |
rhythm and blues |
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A folklike, guitar-based style associated with rural white Americans is known as |
country and western. |
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The first big hit of the earliest leading rock and roll group was |
Rock around the clock |
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America, from West Side Story |
Leonard Bernstein American musical This music features Latin dance rhythms. |
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Tonight, from West Side Story |
Leonard Bernstein polyphonic. This music depicts several emotions at once. |
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