Final Exam Flashcards
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Bebop groups usually performed in
bars and nightclubs
A typical bebop band consisted of
4 or 5 musicians
What’s NOT a term associated with Tin Pan Alley?
AAB Lyric structure
How did Duke Ellington show the influences of Western art in his music?
Classical arrangements, extended-length tone poems
What WASN’T a reason Big Band declined in the 1940s?
The Army did NOT confiscate instruments to make arms
Two substyles of bebop in the late 40s and early 50s?
Cool bop and Hard bop
What wasn’t discussed in the Billie Holiday documentary?
An unwanted pregnancy
Typical form of a bebop piece?
Intro, head, improv, head, coda
Defining early recordings of cool jazz known as?
Birth of the Cool
Whose band reformed as the Count Basie Orchestra?
Benny Moten’s
Bebop drummers usually kept time on the…
Ride cymbal
Stan Getz became best known for his performances of?
Afro-Cuban musical styles
Charles Mingus was important both as…
A bassist and composer
Which characteristics of Hard Bop differ from Bebop?
Accessibility; not easy to enjoy Hard Bop’s head rhythms and solos
Free jazz was immediately controversial because…
It radically rejected many traditional aspects of jazz
Which feature of Bebop represent a continuation of Swing/Big Band techniques?
Walking bass
Which isn’t a standard minstrel show character?
Dapper John
Pianist in John Coltrane’s classic quartet that recorded “A Love Supreme” and “Giant Steps” was…
McCoy Tyner
Street in NYC associated with 30s 40s 50s jazz?
52nd Street
Formal outline of a “generic” piano rag?
AABBCCDD
What recording doesn’t feature Miles Davis?
Hora Decubitis
Armstrong’s Hot 5 recordings in the 1920s exhibit…
solo-oriented texture, prioritized over constant collective improv
Sax player often associated with early cool jazz recordings?
Jerry Mulligan
A Bebop contrafacta is…
A new melody written over the chord progression of an older song (usually standard)
What complaint DIDN’T Armstrong make about bop?
They lack technical skill on their instruments
Swing became a national phenomenon due to…
Network radio broadcasts
Modern Jazz Quartet (band) consists of…
Piano, vibes, bass, drums
Which album ISN’T associated with Miles Davis?
“A Love Supreme”
Jelly Roll Morton was known as…
A pianist, band leader, composer, and arranger
Which features of Swing/Big Band usually AREN’T found in Bebop?
Dancing fans/audience; tempo too damn fast!
The cool jazz style can be identified by…
Its moderate tempo
Who isn’t a hard bop musician?
Dave Brubeck
Over his career, Armstrong had how many style periods?
3 style periods
The keyboard of choice in early jazz-rock fusion was the…
Electric piano
20s 30s, records targeted blacks by record companies, known as?
Race records
The most revered and influential white jazz musician of the 20s was…
Bix Beiderbecke
Who was NOT a bebopper at one point in their career ALSO?
Lester Young
What’s a pedal point?
A long sustained bass note, which roots the harmony on that note so that there are few chord changes
Pedal points are usually associated with?
Modal jazz and Jazz Rock Fusion
Typical complement of a Swing Era big band brass section?
Four trumpets, three bones
Who WASN’T a drummer?
Thelonious Monk
By 1922, Armstrong moved to where to join King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band?
Chicago
What best describes the organizational structure of modal jazz?
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
What ISN’T evolved from African folk techniques?
Clear chord progression
Which song has unusual meter?
Take Five
TF/ Soloists in Bop traded 2s and 8s but never 4s
Duh fucking false what are you retarded, christ this is a dumb question
TF/ “Intonation” is matching volume to match your section
No, FALSE, dumbass
TF/ “Third Stream” music refers to mixing jazz with classic music and style
True
TF/ Bebop musicians prized improvisation more than Swing musicians did; they tried to vary their solos every time
True
T/F John Coltrane was a spiritual mystic that rendered a psalm in tenor saxophone notes
True
T/F Ragtime was sometimes arranged for orchestra, not just piano
True duh, fuck
T/F While the tuba was a rhythm instrument in Early Jazz, by Birth of the Cool, it’s a melody instrument
True
T/F What’s a terminal vibrato, a solo right
False, not a solo
T/F Langston Hughes’s essay “The Negro and the Racial Mountain” calls for black assimilation into white culture
Flase, what are you retarded
T/F Long-playing records developed for classic music, later jazz adopted them for longer performances
True
T/F “Latin percussion” means instruments like snare, bass drum, and ride cymbal
False
T/F Post 1945, jazz became viewed as an art music, contrasting its origin in New Orleans red light districts before WW1
True
T/F Eccentric bebop pianist whose sound was “nonsensical” and employed silence was Bud Powell
False
T/F The shout chorus is always the last
FUcking false, no
T/F The AFM striked due to their unhappiness about not being paid
No Flase
