jazz

Question 0

what are the three characteristics of jazz

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rhythm, improvisation, syncopation

Question 1

jazz

Answer 1

is a way of playing music

The only art form to originate in the United States

it’s an improvisational Afro-American music style

the beginnings of jazz occurred in the late 19th and early 20th century

Question 2

rhythm

Answer 2

movement or just the beat

the rhythmic section is usually composed of piano string bass and drums

Question 3

improvisation

Answer 3

jazz is not jazz until some improvisation takes place

improvisation is creating at the moment of performing

Question 4

syncopation

Answer 4

The shifting or anticipation of the accent of a beat

Question 5

what are the five roots of jazz?

Answer 5

rhythms from west Africa, harmony, religious music, work song, field haulers

Question 6

rhythms from West Africa

Answer 6

these were brought by African slaves and Freeman

Question 7

Harmony

Answer 7

is Melody plus chords

Question 8

religious music

Answer 8

this includes gospel songs and black and white spirituals

The blacks used music to express their human emotions

The spiritual use the call and response system

Question 9

what songs

Answer 9

in the work song words would be synchronize with a regularly repeated action

Question 10

Field hollers

Answer 10

these willdevelop my slaves who were for bidden to talk while working

it’s a kind of the kind of communication not understood by the work masters

Question 11

what were the two background

Answer 11

marching bands and ministel shows

Question 12

marching bands

Answer 12

these were used in the south and became a basic part of funerals

I should distance after the whole band would repeat the whole hymn but faster and with more speed

Question 13

minstrels shows

Answer 13

popular form of entertainment in 19 century

based on black stories dances songs

they introduced a new form of popular music ragtime. Al jolson popularized these in 1919 by singing “swanee” by george gershwin

Question 14

two types of early jazz forms

Answer 14

dixieland jazz, ragtime 1896 – 1918

Question 15

dixieland jazz

Answer 15

in 1897 Charles Buddy Bolden organize the first jazz band

that’s a little song would include chorus solo chorus

Question 16

ragtime 1897–1918

Answer 16

ragtime is an energetic piano style

ragtime was spread through the country my black players who would go from town to town bring music to them

by the end of world war one the ragtime era had almost come to an end

The best-known rack time compose, called The originator was Scott Joplin, his first please was in 1897 Maple leaf rag made him king of ragtime composer

Louis Armstrong was a trumpet player from New Orleans that is considered the father of modern jazz improvisation