Midterm 1

Question 0

Swing is a term that primarily indicates a

Answer 0

Rhythmic feeling

Question 1

To improvise is to BLANK and BLANK simultaneously.

Answer 1

Compose and perform

Question 2

Syncopation is found

Answer 2

In african and european music

Question 3

The textbook pointed out that in addition to being a timekeeper, the modern drummer also acts as a

Answer 3

Colorist

Question 4

Most jazz is guided by

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Preset accompaniment harmonies

Question 5

A group of musicians consisting of piano guitar bass and drums would be termed

Answer 5

A rhythm section

Question 6

A collection of snare drum bass drum tom tom hi hat and cymbals would be called

Answer 6

A drum kit

Question 7

What was not one of the roots of the blues

Answer 7

Ragtime

Question 8

Which one of the following was not a characteristic of field hollars?

Answer 8

Group Vocals

Question 9

The form of the blues is

Answer 9

A-A-B

Question 10

Ragtime developed primarily from

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European march and Afro-American banjo tradition

Question 11

New Orleans was ripe to be the birthplace of jazz because

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the city had a tremendous amount of brass band activity

Question 12

Storyville was

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the cradle of jazz. a licensed prostitution district. established by sidney story. the center of jazz activity between 1897-1917.

Question 13

free people of color whose social status was closer to whites in southern areas of the united states during the time of slavery and whose ancestry was a mix of African and French or Spanish blood were known as

Answer 13

Creoles

Question 14

The people named in the answer to flashcard 14 were important to the development of jazz because

Answer 14

children of creole families often received high quality music training reinforcing, over the years, the intensely musical orientation of New Orleans

Question 15

Which one of the following was a primary cause of the demise of the golden age of jazz in New Orleans

Answer 15

Migration of blacks to northern cities

Question 16

Which one of the following combination of terms works best together

Answer 16

Syncopation / swing feel

Question 17

Which one of the following styles of music does not contain improvisation at any time

Answer 17

Ragtime

Question 18

Which one of the following had the biggest effect on popularizing ragtime in the 1890s

Answer 18

Player Piano

Question 19

Which one of the following did not have a direct impact on the history of Jazz

Answer 19

Robert Johnson

Question 20

Which one of the following best describes Joe “King” Oliver

Answer 20

Louis Armstrong’s mentor

Question 21

Which one of the following does not belong in the grouping? Louis Armstrong, Lil Hardin, Johnny Cyr, Bix Beiderbecke, Johnny Dodds

Answer 21

Bix Beiderbecke

Question 22

Which one of the following does not belong in the discussion of Louis Armstrong’s cornet playing? Unorthodox technique on the cornet, blues laced improvised lines, a strong sense of laid back jazz phrasing, use of scat singing, sometimes began a song with a fanfare

Answer 22

Unorthodox technique on the cornet.

Question 23

Louis Armstrong was one of the first jazz musicians to

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Abandon the stiffness of ragtime phrasing, play swinging melodic patterns, use the cornet as an extension of his voice while improvising, employ scat singing techniques. All are correct.

Question 24

Louise Armstrong's performance on his 1928 recording of West End Blues was significant because

Answer 24

he forecast the future of jazz improvisation with complex, syncopated improvised phrases

Question 25

Which one of the following was not an important contribution to jazz by Louis Armstrong

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Introduced impressionist hormones by Debussy and Ravel into jazz

Question 26

Which one of the following does not belong in a discussion of Chicago style of jazz of the 1920's? Saxophone, 2 beat rhythmic feel, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, the Wolverines

Answer 26

Louis Armstrong

Question 27

Which of the following best describes Bix Beiderbecke

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Provided a clear alternative to Louis Armstrong in cornet playing as well as improvising style

Question 28

What Bix Beiderbecke piano composition was laced with impressionistic harmonies drawn from French classical composers Ravel and Debussy

Answer 28

In a Mist

Question 29

What Creole clarinetist became a jazz sensation outside of the United Stated in the 1920s

Answer 29

Sidney Bechet

Question 30

Which one of the following was a most important contribution to jazz made by Sidney Bechet

Answer 30

introduced and popularized jazz in Europe during the 1920s

Question 31

Stride refers to

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walking left hand finger patterns on the piano keyboard

Question 32

Which one of the following was a difference between New Orleans and Harlem stride

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Ultra fast tempos

Question 33

Which one of the following was considered the best Harlem stride player

Answer 33

James P Johnson

Question 34

Who was the leading practitioner of boogie boogie in the 1930s

Answer 34

Meade Lewis

Question 35

What legally blind pianist learned to play classical music as a youngster by listening to piano recordings and imitating what he heard

Answer 35

Art Tatum

Question 36

Which one of the following does not belong in a discussion of Louis Armstrong? bravura trumpet style, the rip, scat singing, trumpet fanfares, the blues

Answer 36

The "rip"

Question 37

Who was the most revolutionary figure in early jazz in the list below. Lil Harding Armstrong, Joe "King" Oliver, Frankie Trumbauer, James P Johnson, Kid Ory

Answer 37

Lil Hardin Armstrong

Question 38

Which of the following was common to both Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke

Answer 38

Chicago

Question 39

Which one of the following was common to ragtime, stride, and boogie woogie

Answer 39

syncopation

Question 40

.

Answer 40

Swing evolved out of New Orleans and Chicago jazz and the New York Society Band scene of the 1920s

Question 41

Which one of the following is NOT a characteristic of swing era big band

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Collective improvisation.

Question 42

The whole band playing the same melody together as if one instrument is

Answer 42

tutti

Question 43

Five saxophones stand up together, play the same melody. What do you call this

Answer 43

Saxophone Soli

Question 44

The person who takes an existing composition and inscribes individual parts on music paper for each member of the band is called

Answer 44

the arranger

Question 45

the south chorus..

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may consist of multiple riffs played simultaneously by the various horn section. is usually the exciting climax of a big band arrangement. is near the end of the song when various horn sections are engaging in an exciting riff based call and response, and is the tutti section near the end of the song

Question 46

Fletcher Henderson

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established the prototype big band in the mid 20s in New York. settling on an instrumentation that included saxophones, trombones, trumpets, and a rhythm section

Question 47

Which one of the following groups does not apply to Benny Goodman

Answer 47

arranger, composer, block chord voicings.

Question 48

The swing era trumpet player most identified with "growl style" trumpets playing was

Answer 48

Cootie Williams

Question 49

Benny Goodman was best known as the musician who

Answer 49

forced the issue of racial integration in music during the 1930s

Question 50

Ella Fitzgerald is best known for

Answer 50

scat singing

Question 51

what physically challenged swing era band leader set the early standards for big band drumming during the 30s

Answer 51

Chick Webb

Question 52

Which one of the following musicians did not play with Duke Ellington during the Swing Era

Answer 52

Lester Young

Question 53

Ellington's compositions often painted musical portraits of people and places. Another term that musicians and composers often use to describe this kind of music is

Answer 53

tone poem

Question 54

Duke Ellington is best described as

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The single most prolific composer/arranger of jazz

Question 55

Django Reinhardt was

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The first important international jazz musician

Question 56

What big band pianist/arranger/composer was often dismissed as a novelty in jazz, although highly respected by other musicians?

Answer 56

Mary Lou Williams

Question 57

What alto saxophonist stood alongside tenor saxophonists Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young as a dominant musical force during the swing era and beyond?

Answer 57

Johnny Hodges

Question 58

Musicians and critics generally regard _________________'s Band as the most swinging.

Answer 58

Count Basie

Question 59

Count Basie, Walter Page, Freddie Green and Jo Jones were

Answer 59

players in the same band during most of the swing era. possibly the greatest grouping of players in their respective section during that era. rhythm section players. all americans.

Question 60

Which one of the following best describes Coleman Hawkins?

Answer 60

Tenor saxophonist, big deep tone, wide vibrato, Fletcher Henderson, non lyrical solos

Question 61

Which one of the following best describes Lester Young?

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tenor saxophonist / use of space / lyrical player / Prez / Count Basie / soft, lighter tone

Question 62

Charlie Christian was

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one of the early pioneers of bebop, the first important electric guitar improviser, the first great electric guitarist, the first lead guitarist in jazz

Question 63

Which one of the following was one of the several new big band arranging techniques introduced by Duke Ellington?

Answer 63

Cross section chord voicings.