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Which of the following popular American musical styles has its roots in African American music? |
ragtime blues jazz |
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Which of the following music genres developed around the turn of the twentieth century and incorporates elements of African music and Western popular and art music |
jazz |
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Which of the following is NOT a musical trait of African origin? |
major-minor tonality |
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How many lines are in a blues verse? |
three |
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Which of the following best describes the form of a blues text? |
A-A-B |
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Which region of the United States was the birthplace of a unique style of blues primarily sung by males? |
Mississippi Delta |
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What is a bent, or "blue," note? |
a note whose pitch drops slightly |
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Which of the following does NOT characterize the blues? |
It is a form of African folk music. |
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Which American city is considered the birthplace of jazz? |
New Orleans |
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Which of the following is NOT true of New Orleans jazz? |
It had no set forms or harmonic progressions. |
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Louis Armstrong was also known as: |
Satchmo |
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Which instrument did Louis Armstrong play? |
trumpet |
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Louis Armstrong’s instrument-like approach to singing is called: |
scat-singing |
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Billie Holiday was one of the first African American singers to: |
break the color barrier by recording and performing with white musicians. |
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Billie Holiday’s song Billie’s Blues is in ________ form |
twelve-bar blues |
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Which American jazz composer was also a pianist and a master of big-band orchestration? |
Duke Ellington |
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What kind of jazz is Duke Ellington known for? |
big band |
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Duke Ellington’s great musical collaborator in the 1940s was: |
Billy Strayhorn. |
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Take the A Train is a song that refers to |
a New York City subway line |
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Take the A Train was composed by |
Billy Strayhorn. |
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What was the trademark of bebop? |
a two-note phrase |
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Which of the following was NOT a contributor to the 1940s style known as bebop? |
Louis Armstrong |
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During the 1940s, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Thelonious Monk developed: |
bebop |
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The principal exponent of cool jazz was the trumpeter: |
Miles Davis. |
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What element did Xavier Cugat bring to the mainstream? |
Latin dance music |
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Jazz is an art form created mainly by African Americans in the early twentieth century that blended |
T |
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A typical blues text voiced the difficulties of life. |
T |
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A stanza of blues is typically four phrases long. |
F |
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The blues from the Mississippi Delta usually was sung by black women. |
F |
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New Orleans jazz depended on simultaneous improvisations by the players, which resulted in a polyphonic texture. |
T |
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Louis Armstrong was an important force in the development of early jazz styles. |
T |
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Because she was an African American, Billie Holiday never had a chance to record with white jazz musicians |
F |
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Billie Holliday’s Billie’s Blues retains the standard twelve-bar blues structure |
T |
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Big-band swing was the dominant form of American popular music in the 1930s and 1940s. |
T |
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Duke Ellington is associated with New Orleans-style jazz. |
F |
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Bebop was a complex new style that developed after World War II and was performed by small groups in which each player has an equal voice in the improvisation |
T |
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The Gerry Mulligan Quartet is associated with West Coast jazz. |
T |
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