Survey Of Jazz Midterm Test 1

Front 1

Physical instruments that are inserted into the bell of a horn are called cornets

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Mutes

Front 2

Which of the following instruments is NOT in the percussion family?

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Cornet

Front 3

A drum kit is

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a one-man percussion section within the rhythm section of a band

Front 4

The simultaneous use of mulitple rhythms is known as

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Polyrhythm

Front 5

Pitch is measured by

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Frequency

Front 6

Syncopation is

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The accenting of the off-beats, 2 and 4, in a four-beat measure

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The use of more htan one melody at the same time is known as

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Polyphony

Front 8

Stop time uses a ________ texture producing a series of short breaks

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Polyphonic

Front 9

Much of jazz includes traits that can be specifically traced back to African traditions, especially that of Ghana, including

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The use of call and response

Front 10

Subtle gradations between proper pitches which create the sound of sliding through fractions of a half-step are called

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Blue notes

Front 11

The use of cycles of improvisation in Jazz to delineate form comes from a longstanding tradition in

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Africa

Front 12

The form of "West End Blues" is that of

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Twelve-bar blues

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Blues form is derived from

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African American folk poetry

Front 14

The use of chords which vary throughout a piece are known as a

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Chord Progression

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The use of the letter A in an AABA form represents

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Repetition

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In a thirty-two bar AABA popular song, the bridge is denoted by

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the letter B

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Dropping bombs in Jazz refers to

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An accented beat on the bass drum

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A pedal point is

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A repeated note or chord in the bass-line that does not change

Front 19

When a pianist accompanies another musician by playing the chord progression, it is said that they are

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Comping

Front 20

Which of the following helped white audiences become comfortable with ragtime syncopation?

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The Cakewalk

Front 21

In the folk tradition, ballads were songs that

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Told a story, often of a local history

Front 22

The instrument that was most commonly associated with ragtime was

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The piano

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The group well-known for the continued performances of spirituals throughout the U.S. was the

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Fisk Jubilee Singers

Front 24

The song known as "The Buzzard Lope" consists of

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All of the Above

Front 25

The theatrical form of blues featuring female singers, accompanied by a small band, on the stages in the 1920's is

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Vaudevile Blues

Front 26

The popular blues artist that was known as the "Empress of the Blues" in the 1920's - 1930's was

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Bessie Smith

Front 27

This early jazz cornetist was acknowledged as the first important musician in jazz. It was claimed that his cornet could be heard as far away as twelve miles. He was

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Buddy Bolden

Front 28

The great migration was

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The movement of former slaves from agricultural areas into larger cities including Chicago and New York

Front 29

The song "Dixie Jazz Band One-Step" was recorded by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. The song consisted of

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A rehearsed improvisation

Front 30

Which of hte following songs was recorded by Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers?

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Dead Man Blues

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Which of the following songs includes stop-time and breaks, and Morton emphasizing unexpected syllables?

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Doctor Jazz

Front 32

Joe Oliver hired a young musician to King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band in about 1920 to "punch up the fornt line and spell him off" during a performance. The musician that he hired to join his band was

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Louis Armstrong

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A great soloist that could play both clarinet and soprano saxophone was

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Sidney Bechet

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The style of jazz that developed in New York and was internationally recognized

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The stride piano

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The "father of stride piano" was

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James P. Johnson

Front 36

In 1904, the Harlem Renaissance was organized by the encouragement of

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The Afro-American Realty Company's campaign to lure African Americans to Harlem

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The composer who changed the false assumptions about jazz as a low and unlettered music and showed that jazz writing could be applied to popular songs was

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Duke Ellington

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The Cotton Club, a well-known jazz club that exploited stereotypes of minstrels, was segregated and included a backstand design made up of a Southern mansion and slave quarters. It was opened by

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Duke Ellington

Front 39

The song "Hotter Than That" is performed by a trumpet player that would scat-sing. His name was

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Louis Armstrong

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In "Weather Bird", Louis Armstrong joined this young pianist and created an improvised call and response style. The pianist is

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Earl Hines

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One major effect that Louis Armstrong had on jazz was

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the importance of the soloist

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Satchmo refers to

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All of the above

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Laws that were enlisted to ensure racial segregation in 1876 were called

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Jim Crow Laws

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Police and law enforcement officials throughout the US in the late 1800's and early 1900's reacted to lynchings of African Americans...

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By ignoring them and doing virutally nothing

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This piece is titled ________ by ________

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Dead Man Blues, Jelly Roll Morton

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Because jazz is an improvisational style,

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No two performances will sound exactly alike

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In the early 1930's American record companies were going out of business. _____ became a new medium to hear jazz and blues

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Radio

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Located inthe Frecnh Quarter of New Orleans, LA, this became the Sunday afternoon congregating place for slaves and free blacks in the early 1800's. It was called

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Congo Square

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The name of this song is _______ with _______ performing

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West End Blues , Louis Armstrong

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Which of the following instruments was invented inthe 1840's in Paris as a famliy of instruments who derived their individual names from vocal parts?

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Saxophone