Terms, Tune names, Album Names, ETC.

Question 1

Syncopation

Answer 1

Placement of an accent slightly before or after the beat.

Question 2

Stop time

Answer 2

When the band stops playing usually to feature a soloist.

Question 3

Brass Bands

Answer 3

Groups of Jazz bands back in the early times of Jazz that were made of only brass instruments.

Question 4

Obbligato

Answer 4

In classical music obbligato usually describes a musical line that is in some way indispensable in performance.

Question 5

Blues

Answer 5

An old style of Jazz that followed the blues chord progression and always had blues notes mixed.

Question 6

Bebop

Answer 6

A fast paced style of Jazz that was created to keep the old players from playing with the new ones.

Question 7

“Kind of Blue”

Answer 7

Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released on August 17, 1959, by Columbia Records.

Question 8

Polyrhthm

Answer 8

A song with multiple Rythms

Question 9

Half Step

Answer 9

Moving up or down on a chromatic scale. (Also known as adding a sharp or flat to a note)

Question 10

Trumpet

Answer 10

A bright sounding brass instrument. It has the ability to use mutes.

Question 11

Harmon Mute

Answer 11

A mute for brass instruments that can have be played with or without a stem. Also know as the wha wha mute

Question 12

Plunger Mute

Answer 12

A mute where they use the end of a plunger to change the sound of their brass instrument.

Question 13

Banjo

Answer 13

The string instrument used in Jazz. For a long, it was used to provide background chords and even keep time.

Question 14

Hot Five

Answer 14

One of the bands that played under Louise Armstrong. It had 5 members.

Question 15

Soprano Saxophone

Answer 15

A saxophone shaped like a clarinet that is higher pitched and brighter than an alto sax.

Question 16

Rubato

Answer 16

Free flowing

Question 17

Improvision

Answer 17

Improvisation is an important aspect of jazz. Basically, improvisation is composing on the spot and coming up with melodies off the top of one’s head.

Question 18

Solo Breaks

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A jazz term that instructs a lead player or rhythm section member to play an improvised solo cadenza for one or two measures (sometimes abbreviated as “break”), without any accompaniment

Question 19

Harmony

Answer 19

Motion

Question 20

Chicago Styles

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Chicago style, approach to jazz group instrumental playing that developed in Chicago during the 1920s and moved to New York City in the ’30s, being preserved in the music known as Dixieland.

Question 21

Swing

Answer 21

A type of Jazz from the 30’s involving a steady beat.

Question 22

Meter

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The type of grouping of beats

Question 23

Modal

Answer 23

musical modes rather than chord progressions as a harmonic framework.

Question 24

Octave

Answer 24

The relationship between the bottom “do” and the top “do,” the first and eighth steps of the scale

Question 25

Blue Note

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A blue note is a note lowered to the minor 3rd

Question 26

Rhythm Changes

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refers to the chord progression occurring in George Gershwin's song "I Got Rhythm". This pattern, "one of the most common vehicles for improvisation,"[1] forms the basis of countless (usually uptempo) jazz compositions, was popular with swing-era musicians.

Question 27

Bridge

Answer 27

A contrast of sounds from the chorus

Question 28

Drums

Answer 28

The instrument used to keep time for the band. Usually used as the base for the band.

Question 29

Guitar

Answer 29

The guitar is a type of chordophone, traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other chordophones by its construction and tuning. There are three main types of modern acoustic guitar: the classical guitar (nylon-string guitar), the steel-string acoustic guitar, and the archtop guitar.

Question 30

Hot seven

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The seven member band that was led by Louis Armstrong.

Question 31

Heebie Jeebies

Answer 31

Heebie Jeebies was a song by Louise Armstrong. It was the creation of Scat Singing.

Question 32

The Empress of Blues

Answer 32

A Name that was used instead of Bessie Smith

Question 33

Form

Answer 33

The structure in which a song follows

Question 34

Most common form

Answer 34

A-A-B-A

Question 35

Creoles of Color

Answer 35

The Creoles of Color are a historic ethnic group of Louisiana, especially the city of New Orleans.

Question 36

Boogie Woogie

Answer 36

Boogie-woogie is an African American style of piano-based blues that became popular in the late 1930s and early 1940s, but originated much earlier.

Question 37

Ragtime

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A 1890 style of Jazz revolving around the piano

Question 38

Beat

Answer 38

A unit of pulse

Question 39

4/4

Answer 39

4 beats per measure while the quarter note gets the beat.

Question 40

Tonality

Answer 40

A particular kind of sound and structure given by the relationship of the notes of the major scale in a song

Question 41

Chord

Answer 41

A harmonic set of 3 or more notes

Question 42

Chord changes

Answer 42

Literally changes in chords

Question 43

Clarinet

Answer 43

A woodwind instrument with a more mellow sound

Question 44

Tone Color

Answer 44

The spectrum of frequencies generated by each instrument in its own unique way

Question 45

Piano

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An instrument that can play many different chords and octaves.

Question 46

Tuba

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A very loud deep instrument, used as background chords.

Question 47

Scat singing

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Jazz improvisation using the human voice as an instrument, with nonsense syllables instead of words

Question 48

Call and response

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When one section of a band plays something, then the other j\half responds to it with another set of notes.

Question 49

Stride Piano

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A jazz piano style that was developed in the large cities of the East Coast, mainly New York,

Question 50

Rhythm

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The arrangement of sounds in time. It encompasses beat, tempo, and meter.

Question 51

Ride Rhythm

Answer 51

A time-keeping rhythm by the ride cymbal.

Question 52

Timbre

Answer 52

Term that describes tone quality or tone color

Question 53

Interval

Answer 53

The difference between two pitches.

Question 54

Mode

Answer 54

Describes a sequence of acoustic relationships

Question 55

Chorus

Answer 55

The main part of a tune

Question 56

Straight mute

Answer 56

The most common type of mute. A hollow, cone-shaped mute that fits into the bell of the instrument.

Question 57

Bass

Answer 57

A string bass that is a low string instrument used to keep time

Question 58

Downbeat

Answer 58

the name of the number

Question 59

Trading four/eights

Answer 59

When soloists play 4/8 bars then pass to the next soloist

Question 60

French Quarter

Answer 60

Oldest neighborhood in New Orleans

Question 61

Tempo

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The speed or pace at which the piece is played

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Rhythm Section

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The part of the band that plays the background rhythm responsible for keeping time.

Question 63

Measure

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A group of beats

Question 64

Scale

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A range of notes in ascending or descending order that lead to a basic tonality and are the basis for all music.

Question 65

Key

Answer 65

The scale in which you play a song in. The amount of sharps and flats.

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Whole step

Answer 66

Advancing a whole note up or down a scale

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Verse

Answer 67

A complete set of music

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Harmony

Answer 68

motion

Question 69

Cornet

Answer 69

A thinner brighter trumpet

Question 70

Trombone

Answer 70

A deep brass instrument with a slide to play the notes vs. pedals or keys

Question 71

Upbeat

Answer 71

The and in music