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Mrs Cook's Jazz History Final
Mrs Cook's Jazz History Final
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History of #Jazz music
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1
Characteristics of Bebop included
difficult to play and slow
Difficult to play and fast
easy to play and fast
Easy to play and slow
2
Who was Duke Ellington?
A novelist in the 1930's
A baseball player
Competed in track and field in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
A famous jazz musician
3
Ragtime was popular in 1895 - 1919 and was primarily....
Written for the trombone
written for the drums
Written for the piano
Written for the bass
4
What is Improvisation?
A type of bebop jazz
Written music played on a jazz instrument
Spontaneous music in the moment
Spontaneous music only done by instrumentalists
5
What is Jazz?
A musical quote
A musical idea
A musical conversation
A musical sentence
6
What city was considered the birth place of jazz?
Detroit
Chicago
New Orleans
NYC
7
What were some characteristics of funky jazz?
complex
complex scales
unorthodox
simple
8
Who is considered the "King" of Bebop jazz?
Chet Baker
Dizzy Gillespie
Miles Davis
Louis Armstrong
9
Cool jazz was performed by
black and white musicians
Black musicians
children
white musicians
10
Who were considered "Creoles"?
People who were poor musicians
People who were good musicians
People of multiple ethnicity
People of one ethnicity
11
Bebop was made to be.....
confusing, not easy to understand
unique, not commercialized
listened to, not danced to
enjoyed, not sung
12
Fusion Jazz was
Music that fused jazz and pop
Music that fused jazz and hip hop
Music that fused jazz and rock
Music that fused jazz and classical
13
what was improvisation like during swing music?
solo improvisation
a mix of everything and anything
No improvisation was included
everyone improvised at once
14
What "devil instrument" did they allow??
Drums
Oboe
Piano
Tuba
15
How long was Billie Holiday in jail for?
8 days
8 weeks
8 years
8 months
16
What did Cool Jazz sound like?
it was slower and less emotional
it was faster and more emotional
It was slower and more emotional
It was faster and less emotional
17
Was swing music written down or played by ear?
played by ear
both
written down
neither
18
Acid Jazz was...
Jazz that was really short
Jazz that included a lot of weird instruments
Jazz that was written while using drugs
Jazz that combines elements of jazz, soul, funk, and disco
19
Dixieland had mostly written music
True
False
20
Why was New Orleans a perfect place for jazz to originate
The diverse cuisine was delicious
People worked hard
It was a city of mixed cultures and music
It had beautiful architecture
21
What did blues evolve from?
Work songs
Dixieland jazz
sailor songs
Ragtime
22
Duke Ellington was a saxophonist
False
True
23
Who did not play Jazz Fusion
The Beatles
Miles Davis
The Rolling Stones
Jelly Roll Morton
24
What are the five elements of jazz?
harmony, rhythm, form, melody and dance
rhythm, form melody, dance and scat
improve, dance, harmony, rhythm, form
improv, harmony, rhythm, form and melody
25
Free jazz wasn't concerned with
instrumentation
tuning or form
keeping things free and simple
emotions or experiences of the audience
26
Why was Billie Holiday arrested? (besides prostitution charges)
Drug possesion
Identity theft
DUI
Stalking charges
27
What was the trumpet's job in a Dixieland band?
Play the melody
Keep the stead beat
Embellish the melody
Embellish the bass line
28
Which of these musicians was a Ragtime piano player?
Dizzy Gillespie
Nat King Cole
Miles Davis
Scott Jopin
29
who was Nat king Cole?
a jit
a very intellectual person
a pianist and vocalist
a trumpeteer
30
What is the correct progression of music
Field songs, blues, ragtime, Dixieland, jazz
rock, blues, jazz
ragtime, blues, field songs, Dixieland, jazz
Jazz, field songs, ragtime, Dixieland, blues
31
What artists participated in all styles of jazz?
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Dizzy Gillespie
Thelonious Monk
32
Why was cool jazz created?
as a reaction to dixieland
As a reaction to swing
As a reaction to bebop
As a reaction to ragtime
33
Ella Fitzgerald was a famous...
dancer
singer
pianist
trumpet player
34
Trying to sing bebop resulted in....
choral singing
Scat singing
the millennial whoop
no singing in bebop
35
In the 1950s musicians created free jazz. What was it?
precise chord structures and improvised solos
music with a steady tempo
no music
no constraints or expectations
36
Swing bands were popular in the 1930s and 40s. Why were they so popular?
People liked to dance to their driving rhythm
There were no singers with swing bands
People liked to listen to their smooth sounds
Classical violin was played in Swing Bands
37
What was the purpose of Congo Square?
Allowed slaves to sing and dance freely on sunday
Allowed slaves to write and draw freely on sunday
Allowed slaves to meet and eat freely on sunday
Allowed slaves to worship freely on sunday
38
Important musicians in Dixieland Jazz include
Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton
Louis Armstrong and Scott Joplin
Louis Armstrong and Thelonious Monk
Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald
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Hard bop was a reaction to cool jazz because
Cool jazz was taken over by white musicians
cool jazz was too interesting
cool jazz was boring
cool jazz deemphasized African roots
