Exam 1

Question 0

Blues Notes

Answer 0

From African music
“Play in the crack”
Not on the major scale
Flat 3, 5, and 7 notes

Question 1

Players Art

Answer 1

Jazz is improvised, it depends on the player. Never the same

Question 2

Dissonance

Answer 2

Hear the note in the middle

Hear in quarter tones

Question 3

Quarter Tones

Answer 3

Quarter step
In between half step
Not on piano

Question 4

Syncopation

Answer 4

Playing the unexpected

Emphasis on unexpected notes

Question 5

Vibrato

Answer 5

Tremor
Manipulating of pitch
Shaking

Question 6

Form

Answer 6

Play book

Way parts are played

Question 7

Iambic pentameter

Answer 7

Way blues is written

Question 8

Breaks/Fills

Answer 8

In blues
Instrumental answer
Bars 4, 8 and 12

Question 9

Collective/Simultaneous Imrov

Answer 9

Multiple instruments improv at once

Dixieland music

Question 10

Arrangements

Answer 10

Gameplan

Not everyone improvises in big bands

Question 11

Dixieland Music

Answer 11

Recorded 1st Jazz record

Improv in a polyphonic manner

Question 12

Functional Music

Answer 12

How jazz started out

Made for choreographed dancing

Question 13

Experimental/Chamber Music

Answer 13

Not improvised
More of an art form
“Cool jazz”

Question 14

Sound innovators

Answer 14

No two jazz musicians sound the same

Question 15

Monophonic

Answer 15

One sound at a time

Question 16

Polyphonic

Answer 16

Two or more sounds at the same time of equal importance

Question 17

Homophonic

Answer 17

Music built in harmony

Question 18

Tunnel listening

Answer 18

Listening to one specific sound

Question 19

Free Jazz

Answer 19

Polyphonic music

Pure experimentation

Question 20

Original Rhythm Sessions

Answer 20

Originated in marching bands
Made up of:
Banjo, drums, tuba

Question 21

Contemporary Rhythm session

Answer 21

Piano, bass, guitar, drums

Question 22

Snare drum sounds

Answer 22

Typical marching drum

Question 23

Bass

Answer 23

Lowest sound

Kick drum

Question 24

Tom-toms

Answer 24

Tympanic sound

Question 25

High hat

Answer 25

"Chick" sound symbols

Question 26

Arco Bass style

Answer 26

Play with bow

Question 27

Pinsacatto Bass style

Answer 27

Played with fingers

Question 28

Walking Bass

Answer 28

Play note on every beat ascending and descending notes

Question 29

Piano comping

Answer 29

Chords played in a syncopated improvised way

Question 30

First instrument

Answer 30

Human voice

Question 31

Origin of New Orleans

Answer 31

By French in 1718

Question 32

When was the "Great Awakening"?

Answer 32

Early 1800's Religious movement Converted slaves to Christianity Gospels and hymns

Question 33

When was Congo Square?

Answer 33

1819

Question 34

When was Mardi Gras?

Answer 34

1827

Question 35

When was the Civil War?

Answer 35

1861-1865

Question 36

When was the Segregation Act?

Answer 36

1894

Question 37

What are Race Records?

Answer 37

Early blues recordings

Question 38

What is the Chorus in a Blues song?

Answer 38

Instrumental only

Question 39

What is a Verse in a Blues song?

Answer 39

When someone sings

Question 40

How is Blues written?

Answer 40

Iambic pentameter Two repeated lines One "answer"

Question 41

What is Country Blues?

Answer 41

When there is a guitar

Question 42

What is City Blues?

Answer 42

When a woman sings

Question 43

Big Bill Broomzy, Lightning Hopkins, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Josh White, Led Belly

Answer 43

Country/Rural Blues Singers

Question 44

Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith

Answer 44

Uran/City Blues

Question 45

Was Billie Holiday a Jazz Singer?

Answer 45

Yes. She was not a blues singer

Question 46

Who is Robert Johnson?

Answer 46

"King of the Blues"

Question 47

Who is W.C. Handy?

Answer 47

Push listed illiterate artists' blues songs, made sure they got payed "Father of the Blues"

Question 48

What two countries is jazz a combination of?

Answer 48

Africa and Europe

Question 49

What are Creoles of color?

Answer 49

Black children born of a white father. Sent to England for schooling. Became first jazz instructors.

Question 50

Who are the Fisk University Singers?

Answer 50

First gospel touring group

Question 51

Who is Majehlia Jackson?

Answer 51

Gospel Singer

Question 52

What started in Benevolent Societies?

Answer 52

Parades | Done for funerals

Question 53

Who was the main arranger of parades?

Answer 53

Buddy Bolden

Question 54

What is in the front line of a parade?

Answer 54

Horns: trumpet, trombone, clarinet

Question 55

What is in the second line of parades?

Answer 55

People that fall behind the band and celebrate the persons life

Question 56

What is Mardi Gras?

Answer 56

Starts the day before lent and continues until Ash Wednesday Religious Holiday