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