Final Exam

Question 1

Bebop groups usually performed in

Answer 1

bars and nightclubs

Question 2

A typical bebop band consisted of

Answer 2

4 or 5 musicians

Question 3

What’s NOT a term associated with Tin Pan Alley?

Answer 3

AAB Lyric structure

Question 4

How did Duke Ellington show the influences of Western art in his music?

Answer 4

Classical arrangements, extended-length tone poems

Question 5

What WASN’T a reason Big Band declined in the 1940s?

Answer 5

The Army did NOT confiscate instruments to make arms

Question 6

Two substyles of bebop in the late 40s and early 50s?

Answer 6

Cool bop and Hard bop

Question 7

What wasn’t discussed in the Billie Holiday documentary?

Answer 7

An unwanted pregnancy

Question 8

Typical form of a bebop piece?

Answer 8

Intro, head, improv, head, coda

Question 9

Defining early recordings of cool jazz known as?

Answer 9

Birth of the Cool

Question 10

Whose band reformed as the Count Basie Orchestra?

Answer 10

Benny Moten’s

Question 11

Bebop drummers usually kept time on the…

Answer 11

Ride cymbal

Question 12

Stan Getz became best known for his performances of?

Answer 12

Afro-Cuban musical styles

Question 13

Charles Mingus was important both as…

Answer 13

A bassist and composer

Question 14

Which characteristics of Hard Bop differ from Bebop?

Answer 14

Accessibility; not easy to enjoy Hard Bop’s head rhythms and solos

Question 15

Free jazz was immediately controversial because…

Answer 15

It radically rejected many traditional aspects of jazz

Question 16

Which feature of Bebop represent a continuation of Swing/Big Band techniques?

Answer 16

Walking bass

Question 17

Which isn’t a standard minstrel show character?

Answer 17

Dapper John

Question 18

Pianist in John Coltrane’s classic quartet that recorded “A Love Supreme” and “Giant Steps” was…

Answer 18

McCoy Tyner

Question 19

Street in NYC associated with 30s 40s 50s jazz?

Answer 19

52nd Street

Question 20

Formal outline of a “generic” piano rag?

Answer 20

AABBCCDD

Question 21

What recording doesn’t feature Miles Davis?

Answer 21

Hora Decubitis

Question 22

Armstrong’s Hot 5 recordings in the 1920s exhibit…

Answer 22

solo-oriented texture, prioritized over constant collective improv

Question 23

Sax player often associated with early cool jazz recordings?

Answer 23

Jerry Mulligan

Question 24

A Bebop contrafacta is…

Answer 24

A new melody written over the chord progression of an older song (usually standard)

Question 25

What complaint DIDN'T Armstrong make about bop?

Answer 25

They lack technical skill on their instruments

Question 26

Swing became a national phenomenon due to...

Answer 26

Network radio broadcasts

Question 27

Modern Jazz Quartet (band) consists of...

Answer 27

Piano, vibes, bass, drums

Question 28

Which album ISN'T associated with Miles Davis?

Answer 28

"A Love Supreme"

Question 29

Jelly Roll Morton was known as...

Answer 29

A pianist, band leader, composer, and arranger

Question 30

Which features of Swing/Big Band usually AREN'T found in Bebop?

Answer 30

Dancing fans/audience; tempo too damn fast!

Question 31

The cool jazz style can be identified by...

Answer 31

Its moderate tempo

Question 32

Who isn't a hard bop musician?

Answer 32

Dave Brubeck

Question 33

Over his career, Armstrong had how many style periods?

Answer 33

3 style periods

Question 34

The keyboard of choice in early jazz-rock fusion was the...

Answer 34

Electric piano

Question 35

20s 30s, records targeted blacks by record companies, known as?

Answer 35

Race records

Question 36

The most revered and influential white jazz musician of the 20s was...

Answer 36

Bix Beiderbecke

Question 37

Who was NOT a bebopper at one point in their career ALSO?

Answer 37

Lester Young

Question 38

What's a pedal point?

Answer 38

A long sustained bass note, which roots the harmony on that note so that there are few chord changes

Question 39

Pedal points are usually associated with?

Answer 39

Modal jazz and Jazz Rock Fusion

Question 40

Typical complement of a Swing Era big band brass section?

Answer 40

Four trumpets, three bones

Question 41

Who WASN'T a drummer?

Answer 41

Thelonious Monk

Question 42

By 1922, Armstrong moved to where to join King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band?

Answer 42

Chicago

Question 43

What best describes the organizational structure of modal jazz?

Answer 43

It's based on modes/scales, each is presented for long stretches of time, so they're not chord progressions like you'd normally see

Question 44

What ISN'T evolved from African folk techniques?

Answer 44

Clear chord progression

Question 45

Which song has unusual meter?

Answer 45

Take Five

Question 46

TF/ Soloists in Bop traded 2s and 8s but never 4s

Answer 46

Duh fucking false what are you retarded, christ this is a dumb question

Question 47

TF/ "Intonation" is matching volume to match your section

Answer 47

No, FALSE, dumbass

Question 48

TF/ "Third Stream" music refers to mixing jazz with classic music and style

Answer 48

True

Question 49

TF/ Bebop musicians prized improvisation more than Swing musicians did; they tried to vary their solos every time

Answer 49

True

Question 50

T/F John Coltrane was a spiritual mystic that rendered a psalm in tenor saxophone notes

Answer 50

True

Question 51

T/F Ragtime was sometimes arranged for orchestra, not just piano

Answer 51

True duh, fuck

Question 52

T/F While the tuba was a rhythm instrument in Early Jazz, by Birth of the Cool, it's a melody instrument

Answer 52

True

Question 53

T/F What's a terminal vibrato, a solo right

Answer 53

False, not a solo

Question 54

T/F Langston Hughes's essay "The Negro and the Racial Mountain" calls for black assimilation into white culture

Answer 54

Flase, what are you retarded

Question 55

T/F Long-playing records developed for classic music, later jazz adopted them for longer performances

Answer 55

True

Question 56

T/F "Latin percussion" means instruments like snare, bass drum, and ride cymbal

Answer 56

False

Question 57

T/F Post 1945, jazz became viewed as an art music, contrasting its origin in New Orleans red light districts before WW1

Answer 57

True

Question 58

T/F Eccentric bebop pianist whose sound was "nonsensical" and employed silence was Bud Powell

Answer 58

False

Question 59

T/F The shout chorus is always the last

Answer 59

FUcking false, no

Question 60

T/F The AFM striked due to their unhappiness about not being paid

Answer 60

No Flase