Eduqas AoS D - Early Jazz & Swing

Question 1

What is the musical term for a repeating verse e.g. AAAA?

Accepted Answer

Strophic

Question 2

How many wind instruments are there in a standard Big Band?

Accepted Answer

13 - four trumpets, four trombones, five saxophones

Question 3

Which of these are Swing artists?

Accepted Answer

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra

Question 4

In what city was the Cotton Club?

Accepted Answer

New York

Question 5

What instrument did Louis Armstrong play?

Accepted Answer

Trumpet

Question 6

Which of these is a trumpet mute?

Accepted Answer

Harmon, Straight

Question 7

Storyville was a legalised area of prostitution in which city?

Accepted Answer

New Orleans

Question 8

What is standard 32-bar form?

Accepted Answer

AABA

Question 9

Which of the following saxophones regularly feature in a typical Big Band?

Accepted Answer

Baritone, Alto, Tenor

Question 10

Which of theses musicians was NOT from the Early Jazz era?

Accepted Answer

Charlie Parker

Question 11

What is the term for a full Big Band all playing the same part, sometimes harmonised?

Accepted Answer

Shout Chorus

Question 12

"Big Band music featured much less...."

Accepted Answer

Improvisation

Question 13

Bix Beiderbecke played which instrument?

Accepted Answer

Cornet

Question 14

What is the term for a Big Band section playing the same part, sometimes harmonised?

Accepted Answer

Soli

Question 15

Dixieland is a term that refers to the Early Jazz style after it moved away from New Orleans

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

'Stride' is a playing method for which instrument?

Accepted Answer

Piano

Question 17

A standard Blues structure is made up of how many bars?

Accepted Answer

12

Question 18

What decade was this music written?

Accepted Answer

1920s

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