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1
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Bebop groups usually performed in

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bars and nightclubs

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2
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A typical bebop band consisted of

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4 or 5 musicians

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3
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What’s NOT a term associated with Tin Pan Alley?

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AAB Lyric structure

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4
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How did Duke Ellington show the influences of Western art in his music?

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Classical arrangements, extended-length tone poems

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5
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What WASN’T a reason Big Band declined in the 1940s?

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The Army did NOT confiscate instruments to make arms

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6
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Two substyles of bebop in the late 40s and early 50s?

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Cool bop and Hard bop

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7
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What wasn’t discussed in the Billie Holiday documentary?

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An unwanted pregnancy

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8
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Typical form of a bebop piece?

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Intro, head, improv, head, coda

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9
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Defining early recordings of cool jazz known as?

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Birth of the Cool

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10
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Whose band reformed as the Count Basie Orchestra?

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Benny Moten’s

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Bebop drummers usually kept time on the…

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Ride cymbal

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Stan Getz became best known for his performances of?

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Afro-Cuban musical styles

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13
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Charles Mingus was important both as…

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A bassist and composer

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14
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Which characteristics of Hard Bop differ from Bebop?

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Accessibility; not easy to enjoy Hard Bop’s head rhythms and solos

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15
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Free jazz was immediately controversial because…

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It radically rejected many traditional aspects of jazz

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16
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Which feature of Bebop represent a continuation of Swing/Big Band techniques?

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Walking bass

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17
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Which isn’t a standard minstrel show character?

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Dapper John

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18
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Pianist in John Coltrane’s classic quartet that recorded “A Love Supreme” and “Giant Steps” was…

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McCoy Tyner

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19
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Street in NYC associated with 30s 40s 50s jazz?

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52nd Street

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20
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Formal outline of a “generic” piano rag?

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AABBCCDD

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21
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What recording doesn’t feature Miles Davis?

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Hora Decubitis

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22
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Armstrong’s Hot 5 recordings in the 1920s exhibit…

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solo-oriented texture, prioritized over constant collective improv

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23
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Sax player often associated with early cool jazz recordings?

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Jerry Mulligan

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24
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A Bebop contrafacta is…

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A new melody written over the chord progression of an older song (usually standard)

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25
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What complaint DIDN’T Armstrong make about bop?

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They lack technical skill on their instruments

26
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Swing became a national phenomenon due to…

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Network radio broadcasts

27
Q

Modern Jazz Quartet (band) consists of…

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Piano, vibes, bass, drums

28
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Which album ISN’T associated with Miles Davis?

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“A Love Supreme”

29
Q

Jelly Roll Morton was known as…

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A pianist, band leader, composer, and arranger

30
Q

Which features of Swing/Big Band usually AREN’T found in Bebop?

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Dancing fans/audience; tempo too damn fast!

31
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The cool jazz style can be identified by…

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Its moderate tempo

32
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Who isn’t a hard bop musician?

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Dave Brubeck

33
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Over his career, Armstrong had how many style periods?

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3 style periods

34
Q

The keyboard of choice in early jazz-rock fusion was the…

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Electric piano

35
Q

20s 30s, records targeted blacks by record companies, known as?

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Race records

36
Q

The most revered and influential white jazz musician of the 20s was…

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Bix Beiderbecke

37
Q

Who was NOT a bebopper at one point in their career ALSO?

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Lester Young

38
Q

What’s a pedal point?

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A long sustained bass note, which roots the harmony on that note so that there are few chord changes

39
Q

Pedal points are usually associated with?

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Modal jazz and Jazz Rock Fusion

40
Q

Typical complement of a Swing Era big band brass section?

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Four trumpets, three bones

41
Q

Who WASN’T a drummer?

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Thelonious Monk

42
Q

By 1922, Armstrong moved to where to join King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band?

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Chicago

43
Q

What best describes the organizational structure of modal jazz?

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It’s based on modes/scales, each is presented for long stretches of time, so they’re not chord progressions like you’d normally see

44
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What ISN’T evolved from African folk techniques?

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Clear chord progression

45
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Which song has unusual meter?

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Take Five

46
Q

TF/ Soloists in Bop traded 2s and 8s but never 4s

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Duh fucking false what are you retarded, christ this is a dumb question

47
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TF/ “Intonation” is matching volume to match your section

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No, FALSE, dumbass

48
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TF/ “Third Stream” music refers to mixing jazz with classic music and style

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True

49
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TF/ Bebop musicians prized improvisation more than Swing musicians did; they tried to vary their solos every time

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True

50
Q

T/F John Coltrane was a spiritual mystic that rendered a psalm in tenor saxophone notes

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True

51
Q

T/F Ragtime was sometimes arranged for orchestra, not just piano

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True duh, fuck

52
Q

T/F While the tuba was a rhythm instrument in Early Jazz, by Birth of the Cool, it’s a melody instrument

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True

53
Q

T/F What’s a terminal vibrato, a solo right

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False, not a solo

54
Q

T/F Langston Hughes’s essay “The Negro and the Racial Mountain” calls for black assimilation into white culture

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Flase, what are you retarded

55
Q

T/F Long-playing records developed for classic music, later jazz adopted them for longer performances

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True

56
Q

T/F “Latin percussion” means instruments like snare, bass drum, and ride cymbal

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False

57
Q

T/F Post 1945, jazz became viewed as an art music, contrasting its origin in New Orleans red light districts before WW1

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True

58
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T/F Eccentric bebop pianist whose sound was “nonsensical” and employed silence was Bud Powell

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False

59
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T/F The shout chorus is always the last

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FUcking false, no

60
Q

T/F The AFM striked due to their unhappiness about not being paid

A

No Flase

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