Chapter 9 Flashcards

Front 1

What term refers to a complex and sophisticated type of improvised jazz?

Back 1

Bebop

Front 2

What is the term for a combination of jazz and rock?

Back 2

Fusion

Front 3

What is juxtaposing two or more different rhythms called?

Back 3

Polyrhythmic

Front 4

What is the word for the special rhythmic character that jazz musicians add to the music?

Back 4

Swing

Front 5

what term means a measure or two where everyone stops playing except the soloist?

Back 5

Break

Front 6

What is known as a form of vocal improvisation or nonsense syllables?

Back 6

Scat Singing

Front 7

What is a musical form distinguished by its reliance on improvisation and its rhythmic urgency?

Back 7

Jazz

Front 8

What term describes a musical scale consisting entirely of half steps?

Back 8

Chromatic

Front 9

What name designates a musical scale with a pattern of whole step, half, whole, whole, whole, half and whole?

Back 9

Dorian

Front 10

What is the term for a connective part of a composition?

Back 10

Bridge

Front 11

Pianist and a bandleader who perfected Dixieland jazz.

Back 11

Jelly Roll Morton

Front 12

Complemented his trumpet improvisations with scat singing.

Back 12

Louis Armstrong

Front 13

Established the instrumentation of the jazz band.

Back 13

Fletcher Henderson

Front 14

Nicknamed "King of Swing"

Back 14

Benny Goodman

Front 15

Composer who made jazz a sophisticated art.

Back 15

Duke Ellington

Front 16

An original and influential jazz artist who took up the trumpet at age 13.

Back 16

Miles Davis

Front 17

Early sax player who inspired others.

Back 17

Lester Young

Front 18

Composed "It Don't Mean a Thing"

Back 18

Duke Ellington

Front 19

Clarinet soloist of both jazz and classical music.

Back 19

Benny Goodman

Front 20

Composer and pianist who wrote "Gemini".

Back 20

Mary Lou Williams

Front 21

"Stride" piano style is an example of smooth jazz.

Back 21

False

Front 22

The Jazz Age refers to the Big Band era of the 1930s.

Back 22

False

Front 23

The clarinet replaced the saxophone as the favored reed instrument for jazz solos.

Back 23

False

Front 24

Ella Fitzgerald was known for scat singing.

Back 24

True

Front 25

Many women gained acceptance as jazz musicians during the Big Band era.

Back 25

False

Front 26

The roos of jazz in and around ______ _____________ extends back into the second half of the 19th century

Back 26

New Orleans

Front 27

William ______________ Basie led a famous nine-piece band with a powerful rhythm section.

Back 27

"Count"

Front 28

The most common of the 32 bar song for is the ______ _____ ______ _____ form.

Back 28

AABA