Chapters 1-6

Question 0

When were the first rapped lyrics recorded?

Answer 0

1930s. “Rap” and “rapping” come from this era as slang.

Question 1

How many years does it take to determine how important music was in its time period?

Answer 1

A minimum of 30 years

Question 2

What are the five elements of music?

Answer 2

Pitch, timbre, dynamics, duration, and silence.

Question 3

Define pitch

Answer 3

The highness or lowness of sound

Question 4

What are the sub elements of pitch?

Answer 4

Melody and harmony

Question 5

Define scale/mode

Answer 5

Series of consecutive pitches in close proximity to each other in a specific pattern.

Question 6

Define harmony

Answer 6

Two or more simultaneous pitches

Question 7

Define chord progression

Answer 7

A series of chords placed together in a logical musical pattern.

Question 8

Popular music is always:

Answer 8

Easy to understand and danceable

Question 9

Entertainment music is

Answer 9

Subjective-changes

Question 10

Musicality is

Answer 10

Objective, stays steady

Question 11

Define syncopation

Answer 11

Enhancing weak beats

Question 12

Define downbeat

Answer 12

The first beat in each bar

Question 13

Jazz is America’s only

Answer 13

international stature indigenous art form

Question 14

Musical improv is the

Answer 14

Spontaneous creation of new music within certain musical limitations

Question 15

Africans brought what music properties to America?

Answer 15

Improv, complex layered rhythms, unstable pitch, call and response.

Question 16

Western music brought what musical elements to jazz?

Answer 16

Melody and harmony, timbre, form

Question 17

The foundations of jazz happened in

Answer 17

The mid 1800s

Question 18

Time era of country/rural blues

Answer 18

1860+

Question 19

Define folk music

Answer 19

Music produced by local musicians for local consumption

Question 20

Country/rural blues were first only heard

Answer 20

In the rural areas of the deep south.

Question 21

What music style was male only?

Answer 21

Country/rural blues

Question 22

Country/rural blues lyrics usually followed what pattern?

Answer 22

AAB rhyming pattern.

Question 23

Musician for country/rural blues category

Answer 23

Robert Johnson - stereotypical example of the rural blues sound.

Question 24

What is the time period for city/urban blues?

Answer 24

1900+

Question 25

City/urban blues musician example

Answer 25

Bessie Smith

Question 26

City/urban blues were commercial music, meaning

Answer 26

Was created to be a saleable product

Question 27

City/urban blues focused lyrically mostly on the genre of

Answer 27

Romance

Question 28

What was the first blues style where visuals came into play?

Answer 28

City/urban blues - music videos

Question 29

What was "Jazz's first style" and it's time era?

Answer 29

Ragtime, 1890-1915

Question 30

What was New Orleans Dixieland time era?

Answer 30

1900-1920

Question 31

What was the musical form of New Orleans Dixieland?

Answer 31

ABA- A: 10% "head" B: improv 80% A: 10% head

Question 32

What was Chicago Dixieland's time era?

Answer 32

1920s, "roaring 20s," "jazz age."

Question 33

What was Storyville?

Answer 33

30 blocks of legal prostitution in New Orleans. Storyville clubs were a huge part of New Orleans Dixieland

Question 34

What three new major technologies launched Chicago Dixieland across America?

Answer 34

Radio, recordings and movies.

Question 35

What was the first style of music to produce international "stars?"

Answer 35

Chicago Dixieland

Question 36

Chicago Dixieland introduced what new position within a band?

Answer 36

The arranger.

Question 37

Give example of a Chicago Dixieland musician:

Answer 37

"Jelly Roll" Morton; pianist, composer, arranger, sex symbol. Made musical "breaks" popular.

Question 38

Louis Armstrong invented....

Answer 38

Swing-feel. He altered the division of the beat, and inverted the accents, creating an enhanced rhythmic drive that felt much looser.

Question 39

Louis Armstrong made what vocal technique popular?

Answer 39

"Scat" singing.

Question 40

What musical era did Louis Armstrong belong to?

Answer 40

Chicago Dixieland

Question 41

When did the recording industry begin?

Answer 41

The 1920s

Question 42

How were early recordings made?

Answer 42

A megaphone sent sound waves down the needle arm which scratched into a wax disc on a perfectly balanced metal plate.