Which list of Jazz Styles are in chronological order?

Dixieland, Hot Chicago, Big Band, Bebop

What type of business is associated with Tin Pan Alley?

Music Distribution via sheet music performed by amateur musicians

Benny Goodman & Glen Miller were famous as:

the most popular white Big Band Leaders

Songs are listed in the Great American Songbook if:

General consensus that song is well-crafted & performed by new generations

Because the art of Music is not visible/tangible & events happen in time & cannot be retained), composers must:

Carefully balance music elements that promote Unity vs Variety

The style of music was labeled as "Ragtime" because:

The pervasive syncopated rhythms sounded "ragged"

"Crooners" were popular musicians whose:

Singing style was soft & personal, contrasted with Vaudeville "belters"

African slaves brought to America their native musical tradition of:

The layering of complex rhythmic patterns, "polyrhythms"

Which was NOT an attribute of the popular jazz music of the 1930s Big Band Era:

It had a rickety, "2-beat feel", contrast to the BeBop "hard swing" style

A syncopated Cuban rhythmic pattern; basis for Latin Dance ie Rumba

Why do we mark the Minstrel Shows of the early 1800s as the first form of Popular American Music?

First distinctly American form of popular culture, had its "own music"

Band leader Paul Whiteman is best known for:

Promoting a "scaled back" jazz more acceptable for 1920's white public

Which of the following would NOT be considered a major, constant influence on the evolution of American Popular Music?

The US involvement in continious war, from the Civil War to today

Louis Armstrong revolutionized the sound of jazz by:

Playing with swing style & promoting single improv soloi, not group improv

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1
Which list of Jazz Styles are in chronological order?
Bebop, Hot Chicago, Dixieland, Big Band
Dixieland, Hot Chicago, Big Band, Bebop
Dixieland, Bebop, Hot Chicago, Big Band
Bebop, Dixieland, Hot Chicago, Big Band
2
What type of business is associated with Tin Pan Alley?
Promotors & Talent Agents for the traveling Vaudeville Shows
Music Distribution via Edison's Audio Cylinders & later phonograph records
Music Distribution via sheet music performed by amateur musicians
Music Recordings of songs now associated with the Great American Songbook
3
Benny Goodman & Glen Miller were famous as:
the most popular white Big Band Leaders
the most popular black Big Band Leaders perforeming in Harlem Clubs
Brass Band Conductors post Civil War
BeBop Jazz Musicians
4
Who of the following was NOT a famous composer for Tin Pan Alley publishers?
Cole Porter
John Coltrane
George Gershwin
Irving Berlin
5
What was the most common song form associated with Tin Pan Alley & the Great American Songbook?
Verse-Chorus-Bridge-Chorus
Use of the Verse-Refrain
ABAC
AABA
6
Songs are listed in the Great American Songbook if:
A jury of American composers & critics vote to nominate a song
The song is in AABA form and performed in a soft singing style
General consensus that song is well-crafted & performed by new generations
Publishers in the old Tin Pan Alley had listed it with certificate of merit
7
Because the art of Music is not visible/tangible & events happen in time & cannot be retained), composers must:
Avoid "rocking the boat" with new ideas if they want to make a living
Carefully balance music elements that promote Unity vs Variety
Always have exciting elements that are unexpected
Create Music Videos to accompany their works; People need visual aids
8
The style of music was labeled as "Ragtime" because:
All the pianos promoting the style had a "ragged", tinny tone quality
After the nickname for famous Ragtime composer, Scott "Ragged" Joplin
Most vaudeville performers wore tattered garments
The pervasive syncopated rhythms sounded "ragged"
9
"Crooners" were popular musicians whose:
Good looks were famous in Silent Movies; learned to sing softly in "talkies
Ability to train raccoons & Vaudeville singers; earned high salaries
Singing style was soft & personal, contrasted with Vaudeville "belters"
Could sing female roles; they were castrated before their voices changed
10
The "Age of Minstrelsy" was:
1840-1990
1900-1950
1840-1890
1890-1930
11
African slaves brought to America their native musical tradition of:
The layering of complex rhythmic patterns, "polyrhythms"
The AABA structure later used in songs of the 1920s & 30s
Rhythmic patterns that had the "swing feel"
Christian hymns with Gospel harmonies & rhythms
12
Which instrument(s) listed below would not play the "Harmony Role" in popular music?
Piano
Rhythm Guitar
a saxopphone section
Drums & aux percussion
13
Which was NOT an attribute of the popular jazz music of the 1930s Big Band Era:
charts had multiple sections & melodies, contrast to BeBop "Head Charts"
Some big bands appealed to white audiences and other ones to black
The sections were large, in contrast to the BeBop "combos"
It had a rickety, "2-beat feel", contrast to the BeBop "hard swing" style
14
The Clave is:
A type of Latin Ballroom Dance made famous by Cuban Band leader Desi Arnez
A syncopated Cuban rhythmic pattern; basis for Latin Dance ie Rumba
The laft hand technioque used in Ragtime piano style
Nickname for the opening act of a typical Minstrel Show
15
Which was NOT a musical element attributed to the European Stream?
Harmony
Orchestral musical instruments
Dance Forms, ie the Minuet and the Quadrille
Call & Response
16
Why do we mark the Minstrel Shows of the early 1800s as the first form of Popular American Music?
First time young people rallied around a specific style of music & dance
Opera & classical music never performed in America before Tin Pan Alley
First distinctly American form of popular culture, had its "own music"
Only America is racist; Europeans knew blackface performers were American
17
Band leader Paul Whiteman is best known for:
Promoting a "scaled back" jazz more acceptable for 1920's white public
Argued for better copyright laws in Supreme Court royalty cases in 1880s
Playing piano in the Louis Armstrong Hot Chicago Band
Composing songs for Tin Pan Alley publishers
18
Which of the following would NOT be considered a major, constant influence on the evolution of American Popular Music?
Constant melding of music cultures/traditions European, African & Latin
Conflicts over Race Relations
The US involvement in continious war, from the Civil War to today
The effects of technology, in both music recording and music distribution
19
Minstrel Shows originated:
On the plantations of the deep South
In the "Wild West", an example was Buffalo Bill's Wild West [Show]
In Havanna, Cuba
In the Northern free states
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Louis Armstrong revolutionized the sound of jazz by:
Playing with swing style & promoting single improv soloi, not group improv
Introducing fast and exciting "hot" tempos
Integrating white musicians, jazz considered for Billboard Pop Music labels
Replacing tuba with the string bass and using saxophone over the clarinet

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