Jazz Ch. 1

When music is "off the beat" it is considered to be:

Jazz traces its history through...

This culture provided the literacy and composition needed in jazz.

Listening to jazz, especially in this course, requires __________ participation.

What is played is more important than how it is played.

Creating music as the beat/rhythm is played live is called:

The presence of the same musical material in multiple parts is called:

This culture provided the oral tradition portion in the development of jazz.

Jazz was the first type of music to feature...

Jazz is considered America's ________ music.

It is hard to trace the lineage of jazz development because:

The wavering of a single pitch on an instrument or voice is called:

The structure of a chart or piece of music is called its:

The numbers representing the groupings of notes in a song are called the:

Jazz history is considered to be "segregated."