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Midterm 1 Flashcards

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Swing is a term that primarily indicates a

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Rhythmic feeling

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To improvise is to BLANK and BLANK simultaneously.

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Compose and perform

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Syncopation is found

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In african and european music

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The textbook pointed out that in addition to being a timekeeper, the modern drummer also acts as a

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Colorist

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Most jazz is guided by

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Preset accompaniment harmonies

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A group of musicians consisting of piano guitar bass and drums would be termed

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A rhythm section

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A collection of snare drum bass drum tom tom hi hat and cymbals would be called

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A drum kit

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What was not one of the roots of the blues

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Ragtime

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Which one of the following was not a characteristic of field hollars?

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Group Vocals

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The form of the blues is

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A-A-B

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Ragtime developed primarily from

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European march and Afro-American banjo tradition

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New Orleans was ripe to be the birthplace of jazz because

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the city had a tremendous amount of brass band activity

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Storyville was

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the cradle of jazz. a licensed prostitution district. established by sidney story. the center of jazz activity between 1897-1917.

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free people of color whose social status was closer to whites in southern areas of the united states during the time of slavery and whose ancestry was a mix of African and French or Spanish blood were known as

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Creoles

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The people named in the answer to flashcard 14 were important to the development of jazz because

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children of creole families often received high quality music training reinforcing, over the years, the intensely musical orientation of New Orleans

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15
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Which one of the following was a primary cause of the demise of the golden age of jazz in New Orleans

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Migration of blacks to northern cities

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16
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Which one of the following combination of terms works best together

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Syncopation / swing feel

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17
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Which one of the following styles of music does not contain improvisation at any time

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Ragtime

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Which one of the following had the biggest effect on popularizing ragtime in the 1890s

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Player Piano

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Which one of the following did not have a direct impact on the history of Jazz

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Robert Johnson

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Which one of the following best describes Joe “King” Oliver

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Louis Armstrong’s mentor

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Which one of the following does not belong in the grouping? Louis Armstrong, Lil Hardin, Johnny Cyr, Bix Beiderbecke, Johnny Dodds

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Bix Beiderbecke

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Which one of the following does not belong in the discussion of Louis Armstrong’s cornet playing? Unorthodox technique on the cornet, blues laced improvised lines, a strong sense of laid back jazz phrasing, use of scat singing, sometimes began a song with a fanfare

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Unorthodox technique on the cornet.

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Louis Armstrong was one of the first jazz musicians to

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Abandon the stiffness of ragtime phrasing, play swinging melodic patterns, use the cornet as an extension of his voice while improvising, employ scat singing techniques. All are correct.

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Louise Armstrong’s performance on his 1928 recording of West End Blues was significant because

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he forecast the future of jazz improvisation with complex, syncopated improvised phrases

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Which one of the following was not an important contribution to jazz by Louis Armstrong

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Introduced impressionist hormones by Debussy and Ravel into jazz

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Which one of the following does not belong in a discussion of Chicago style of jazz of the 1920’s? Saxophone, 2 beat rhythmic feel, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, the Wolverines

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Louis Armstrong

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Which of the following best describes Bix Beiderbecke

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Provided a clear alternative to Louis Armstrong in cornet playing as well as improvising style

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What Bix Beiderbecke piano composition was laced with impressionistic harmonies drawn from French classical composers Ravel and Debussy

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In a Mist

29
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What Creole clarinetist became a jazz sensation outside of the United Stated in the 1920s

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Sidney Bechet

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Which one of the following was a most important contribution to jazz made by Sidney Bechet

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introduced and popularized jazz in Europe during the 1920s

31
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Stride refers to

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walking left hand finger patterns on the piano keyboard

32
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Which one of the following was a difference between New Orleans and Harlem stride

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Ultra fast tempos

33
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Which one of the following was considered the best Harlem stride player

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James P Johnson

34
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Who was the leading practitioner of boogie boogie in the 1930s

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Meade Lewis

35
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What legally blind pianist learned to play classical music as a youngster by listening to piano recordings and imitating what he heard

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Art Tatum

36
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Which one of the following does not belong in a discussion of Louis Armstrong? bravura trumpet style, the rip, scat singing, trumpet fanfares, the blues

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The “rip”

37
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Who was the most revolutionary figure in early jazz in the list below. Lil Harding Armstrong, Joe “King” Oliver, Frankie Trumbauer, James P Johnson, Kid Ory

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Lil Hardin Armstrong

38
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Which of the following was common to both Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke

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Chicago

39
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Which one of the following was common to ragtime, stride, and boogie woogie

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syncopation

40
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.

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Swing evolved out of New Orleans and Chicago jazz and the New York Society Band scene of the 1920s

41
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Which one of the following is NOT a characteristic of swing era big band

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Collective improvisation.

42
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The whole band playing the same melody together as if one instrument is

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tutti

43
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Five saxophones stand up together, play the same melody. What do you call this

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Saxophone Soli

44
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The person who takes an existing composition and inscribes individual parts on music paper for each member of the band is called

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the arranger

45
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the south chorus..

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may consist of multiple riffs played simultaneously by the various horn section. is usually the exciting climax of a big band arrangement. is near the end of the song when various horn sections are engaging in an exciting riff based call and response, and is the tutti section near the end of the song

46
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Fletcher Henderson

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established the prototype big band in the mid 20s in New York. settling on an instrumentation that included saxophones, trombones, trumpets, and a rhythm section

47
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Which one of the following groups does not apply to Benny Goodman

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arranger, composer, block chord voicings.

48
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The swing era trumpet player most identified with “growl style” trumpets playing was

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Cootie Williams

49
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Benny Goodman was best known as the musician who

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forced the issue of racial integration in music during the 1930s

50
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Ella Fitzgerald is best known for

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scat singing

51
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what physically challenged swing era band leader set the early standards for big band drumming during the 30s

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Chick Webb

52
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Which one of the following musicians did not play with Duke Ellington during the Swing Era

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Lester Young

53
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Ellington’s compositions often painted musical portraits of people and places. Another term that musicians and composers often use to describe this kind of music is

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tone poem

54
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Duke Ellington is best described as

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The single most prolific composer/arranger of jazz

55
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Django Reinhardt was

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The first important international jazz musician

56
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What big band pianist/arranger/composer was often dismissed as a novelty in jazz, although highly respected by other musicians?

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Mary Lou Williams

57
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What alto saxophonist stood alongside tenor saxophonists Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young as a dominant musical force during the swing era and beyond?

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Johnny Hodges

58
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Musicians and critics generally regard _________________’s Band as the most swinging.

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Count Basie

59
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Count Basie, Walter Page, Freddie Green and Jo Jones were

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players in the same band during most of the swing era. possibly the greatest grouping of players in their respective section during that era. rhythm section players. all americans.

60
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Which one of the following best describes Coleman Hawkins?

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Tenor saxophonist, big deep tone, wide vibrato, Fletcher Henderson, non lyrical solos

61
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Which one of the following best describes Lester Young?

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tenor saxophonist / use of space / lyrical player / Prez / Count Basie / soft, lighter tone

62
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Charlie Christian was

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one of the early pioneers of bebop, the first important electric guitar improviser, the first great electric guitarist, the first lead guitarist in jazz

63
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Which one of the following was one of the several new big band arranging techniques introduced by Duke Ellington?

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Cross section chord voicings.

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