#6 Jazz and Gennett Records

Question 1

________ was a self-taught cornet player.

Answer 1

Bix Beiderbecke

Question 2

Beiderbecke´s orchestra was called the __________.

Answer 2

Wolverine Orchestra or The Wolverines

Question 3

Bix Beiderbecke played the ____________.

Answer 3

Cornet

Question 4

Composers wrote _____ and ______ wrote the words/lyrics.

Answer 4

the music or musical score and songwriters wrote the words or lyrics

Question 5

“Words and music must be as inseparably wedded to each other that they are like one” was a quote of Cole Porter from his music teacher at Worchester Academy, _______

Answer 5

Dr. Abercrombie

Question 6

George Russell wrote _____ which was a jazz theory approach which was a turning point for David Baker.

Answer 6

“The Hydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization for Improvisation”

Question 7

_________ was a French composer and music theorist

Answer 7

Nadia Boulanger

Question 8

Creoles in New Orleans were a mixture of ______, ______, and _____ ancestors.

Answer 8

African, French, and sometimes Spanish

Question 9

Embouchure means _____.

Answer 9

French: bouche-mouth using facial muscles and shaping lips to the mouthpiece of instruments

Question 10

______ ____ was a famous ragtime composer and sheet music writer.

Answer 10

Scott Joplin

Question 11

______ ______ was coined by composer Gunther Schuller in 1957 and means a musical style through improvisation or written composition that combines jazz and western music (or other than Afro-Am music) into a third syle

Answer 11

Third Stream

Question 12

In the 1920’s bands made more money from personal appearances or record sales? ____

Answer 12

Personal Appearances

Question 13

The year ___ is generally associated with the birth of Rock n’ Roll.

Answer 13

1959

Question 14

The days of Popular Music of the 1930’s and 1940’s were replaced by _____ of the 1950’s.

Answer 14

rock n’ roll music

Question 15

The term “hillbilly music” was an early expression for ________. “Old-Time” music usually referred to white gospel, folk songs. and mountain string music

Answer 15

country music

Question 16

Traditionally the melody of blues is divided into 3 equal phases, with ________.

Answer 16

use 2 similar and melodic/lyrical materials and the 3rd one providing contrast

Question 17

Midwest industrial giant city, _______, attracted waves of southern blacks during the industrial boom of WW1. There were many black entertainment venues in this city.

Answer 17

Chicago

Question 18

Race Records were records recorded by ___ and often sold to ____.

Answer 18

Black Bands, Black Audiences

Question 19

Ragtime music is _________.

Answer 19

syncopated

Question 20

Around 1928, Stardust became ____ and became part of the _____ repertoire in Harlem.

Answer 20

Star-dust or Stardust

Cotton Club CA Black Nightclub

Question 21

Scat singing was _______________.

Answer 21

“ad lib” notes or nonscene phrases

Question 22

Electrobeam was probably the only record label to have ___ printed on them in 1920’s.

Answer 22

Race Record

Question 23

____ was a variation of the Chicago Black Music Scene in the 1920’s. It was a blues piano technique.

Answer 23

Boogie-Woogie

Question 24

Black jazz, blues, and gospel, were often called ____ recordings.

Answer 24

Race

Question 25

In 1950, IU at Bloomington was ________. Blacks not allowed to ___________________________________________.

Answer 25

Segregated live in dorms, go to any restaurants, or get haircuts downtown. the student union had separate eating facilities for blacks

Question 26

At IU in the 1950's, music students studied and played _____.

Answer 26

Classical Music *no jazz playing

Question 27

Paul Whiteman was a _____ and _____

Answer 27

band leader musician

Question 28

Radio did not present severe competition for "race records" in the 1920's because ________.

Answer 28

most radio stations rarely ran black blues or gospel programs

Question 29

In 1921, over _______ sold annually. After that radio sales rose and record sales declined.

Answer 29

100 million records

Question 30

The 1920s record industry avoided using electronic technology for recording "high-fidelity" records because it was associated with _______.

Answer 30

radio

Question 31

The foremost threat to purchases of records and phonographs was the ________.

Answer 31

radio | "no changing records every three minutes"

Question 32

_______ were a major musical and entertainment item of the late 1800s.

Answer 32

Pianos

Question 33

In the 1920s _______ began to replace pianos as a major entertainment item in homes.

Answer 33

phonograph (record player)

Question 34

Richmond, Indiana was a good area for piano manufacturing because ______.

Answer 34

1. Natural Resources- wood nat. and gas for fuel 2. River/Train Access/ Highway 3. Iron Manufacturing close 4. large German immigrant workforce 5. Central US Location

Question 35

A piano roll was a _________.

Answer 35

paper roll for a player piano with holes to play a tune

Question 36

How quality "old-time" records played better on ___________ than high fidelity records.

Answer 36

inexpensive, spring-wound phonographs

Question 37

In 1915, _____ were popular and musicians supplemented their income by producing piano rolls.

Answer 37

player pianos

Question 38

Early recordings were acoustic, which meant ______.

Answer 38

they were recorded into recording horns onto a wax template with a needle making sound grooves on the original