MUSC 2226 - unit 3

Question 1

ragtime

Answer 1

a popular style at the turn of the twentieth century that mixes European forms, harmony, and textures with African-inspired syncopation. it began as a piano music, but soon the term was applied to any music-song and dance as well as piano music - that had some syncopation

Question 2

piano rag

Answer 2

a marchlike, syncopated composition for the piano

Question 3

animal dances

Answer 3

a popular dance which emerged in the early 1900s which was adopted or borrowed from a black folk dance

Question 4

foxtrot

Answer 4

a popular social dance of the 1920s and 30s that introduced a clearly black beat into mainstream culture.

Question 5

commercial blues

Answer 5

blues which is performed by professional musicians, is published, and recorded

Question 6

race records

Answer 6

a term that came into use in the early 1920s to describe recordings by African-American artists intended for sale primarily in the African American community

Question 7

classic blues

Answer 7

The popular blues style of the 1920s, which typically featured a woman signing the blues (e.g Bessie Smith) accompanied by one or more jazz musicians

Question 8

New Orleans jazz

Answer 8

style of jazz performance based on the early bands that performed in and around New Orleans; revived in the late 1940s, it is based on collective improvisation and quick tempos. The front-line instruments usually include cornet or trumpet, clarinet, and trombone, with a rhythm section usually including banjo, tuba, and sometimes piano. Also called Dixieland jazz.

Question 9

frontline

Answer 9

the horns (or other melody-line instruments, such as the vibraphone) in a jazz combo. The term comes from the position of the horn players on the bandstand; they stand ina line in front of the rhythm instruments

Question 10

collective improvisation

Answer 10

An improvisation context in which more than one performer is improvising a melody-lake line. It is a standard practice in New Orleans jazz, free jazz, and much rock-era jazz fusion

Question 11

swing

Answer 11

rhythmic play over a four-beat rhythm

Question 12

improvisation

Answer 12

the act of creating music spontaneously rather than performing a previously learned song the same way every time. It is one of the key elements in jazz. It gives musicians the opportunity to express inspirations and react to situations; requires virtuosity, melodic inventiveness, personality and ability to swing