Jazz Test 1

Front 1

a small unit of melody

Back 1

phrase

Front 2

a large field in New orleans where slaves were allowed to gather on Sunday to sing, dance, and play drums in their traditional native manner.

Back 2

Congo Square

Front 3

The industry centered in New York that published popular music

Back 3

Tin Pan alley

Front 4

a situation in which all members of a small group improvise simultaneously.

Back 4

collective improvisation

Front 5

the simultaneous sounding of two or more melodies of equal importance.

Back 5

polyphonic

Front 6

the different types of music that make up an ensemble.

Back 6

instrumentation

Front 7

the introduction of different musical material

Back 7

contrast

Front 8

refers to design of a musical performance.

Back 8

form

Front 9

Jazz traces its history through the performance of ____.

Back 9

individuals

Front 10

____ best controlled the balance between improvisation and composition.

Back 10

Duke Ellington

Front 11

people with Negro and French or Spanish ancestry

Back 11

Creoles.

Front 12

this is constantly used in jazz as the bending of a tone. was used to communicate in fields so whites could not understand.

Back 12

field hollers

Front 13

songs used to ease the monotony of a regular task and to synchronize a word or exclamation w a regularly repeated action

Back 13

work songs