Music

Question 1

Jazz

Answer 1

• birthplace
• European and African elements
• improvisation, regular rhythm, syncopation ( interruptions of the regular flow), polyrhythm (two or more different rhythms played simultaneously)
• Louis Armstrong, a virtuoso trumpeter, singer, what a wonderful world
• Ella Fitzgerald, the queen of jazz, purity of tone, improvisational abilities in her scat singing, dream a little dream of me, cheek to cheek

Question 2

Blues

Answer 2

• melancholic music of black American folk origin
• twelve-bar sequence
• sad lyrics
• developed in the rural south of US
• boogie-woogie, Kansas city blues, rhythm and blues, piano blues, punk blues
• Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Make Smith, Ma RAiney, John Lee Booker, B.B. King, Steve Ray Vaughan

Question 3

Rock and roll

Answer 3

• 1950
• from the fusion of rhythm and blues, gospel and country
• Elvis Presley (3 Grammy’s, Grammy lifetime achievement award)