Eduqas AoS D - Early Jazz & Swing

Question 1

'Stride' is a playing method for which instrument?

Accepted Answer

Piano

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

Soli

Question 4

In what city was the Cotton Club?

Accepted Answer

New York

Question 5

What decade was this music written?

Accepted Answer

1920s

Question 6

Which of these is a trumpet mute?

Accepted Answer

Harmon, Straight

Question 7

Bix Beiderbecke played which instrument?

Accepted Answer

Cornet

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

12

Question 9

What is standard 32-bar form?

Accepted Answer

AABA

Question 10

Storyville was a legalised area of prostitution in which city?

Accepted Answer

New Orleans

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

Improvisation

Question 12

Which of these are Swing artists?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

Alto, Baritone, Tenor

Question 14

What instrument did Louis Armstrong play?

Accepted Answer

Trumpet

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

Charlie Parker

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

Shout Chorus

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

13 - four trumpets, four trombones, five saxophones

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

Strophic

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