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Oxford Questions Flashcards

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Hoagy Carmichael was a __________, _____________, ____________, _______________, _______________

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songwriter, singer, pianist, bandleader…. also a radio host, composer, tv and movie actor

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____________________, the singing cowboy, recorded with Gennett Records

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Gene Autry

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Gennett recordings included artists _______________________________________________
_______________________________________________

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King Oliver’s Creole Band with Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, Earl Hines, Hoagy Carmichael

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_____________________ was a record label established as a subsidiary of Gennett. It produced _______________

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Champion Records…. It produced cheap pressings of Gennett records and also…. RACE RECORDS

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Bix Beiderbecke played with a band called the ________________>

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Wolverines

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Carmichael grew up poor and learned to play _______________ and by copying _____________.

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piano largely on his own

his mother who played for silent films and ragtime parties

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Hoagy Carmichael began his career as a jazz musician and composer. His first piece was _________________ created for ______________________.

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Riverboat Shuffle

Bix Beiderbecke

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In the 1050’s, Hoagy Carmichael acted in 13 _____________ programs or series.

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television

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Hoagy Carmichael served as __________ fir several variety radio shows in the 1940’s.

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Host

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Hoagy Carmichael had __________ roles in motion pictures, mainly as a ___________________.

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pianist and singer

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Hoagy Carmichael’s __________________ won an Academy Award in 1951.

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“In the Cool, Cool, Cool, of the Evening”

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Along with his mother, Lida, Hoagy Carmichael learned the rudiments of jazz from __________ of Indianapolis.

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Reginald DuValle

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Wes Montgomery’s best live album was ______.

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“Smokin’ at the Half-Note”

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Wes Montgomery developed a quiet style by using the _____ and _________.

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Soft part of his thumb

playing the melody line simultaneously in two registers.

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Wes Montgomery was influenced by _________.

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Charlie Christian

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Wes Montgomery was _________ taught by _______.

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self

listening to records.

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For his own style, Wes Montgomery used _________ _____________ along with his thumb strumming & finger plucking.

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contemporary development in jazz harmony & melody.

improvements in construction of electric guitars.

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Wes Montgomery invented _________.

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perfectly shaped phrases with tremendous rhythmic drive.

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___________ had an album called “First of the Singer/ Songwriters.

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Hoagy Carmichael

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Cole Porter is a classically trained composer, but is better known as a __________.

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lyricist

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Many of Cole Porter’s melodies have _________ ______ lines.

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Chromatic descending

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Several of Cole Porter’s melodies have slow long lines spun from repetitions, sequences, and variations of ___________.

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Single Motif.

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Cole Porter had a penchant for ___________.

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Latin Rhythms.

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Cole Porter created theatrically elegant, sophisticated, and musically complex _________.

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20th century popular music and songs.

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A diatonic scale has __________ notes. The white keys on a piano are diatonic. _______ liked diatonic composition,
7 | Ned Rorem
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Ned Rorem studied piano with ________ and music theory with ______________.
Bonds | Sowerby
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Ned Rorem's interest focused on 20th century music, especially the __________ & ___________.
French Impressionist | Stravinsky
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Singer, ________, was one who Ned Rorem had an interest in their work.
Billie Holiday
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Ned Rorem studied at Northwestern, moved to Curtis Institute, but found studying with Rosario Scalero to be ________.
too rigid and conservative.
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________ became a music copyist for Virgil Thomson in New York.
Ned Rorem
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Ned Rorem studied the summer of 1946 and 47 at Tanglewood as a part of _______ composition class.
Copland's
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Ned Rorem completed his musical studies at _______.
Julliard school
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In 1948, "The Lordy Hudson" was deemed the best published song of the year by the Music Library Association and was composed by ___________.
Ned Rorem
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Ned Rorem's "Overture in C" was recipient of the __________, and performed in Carnegie Hall.
genshwin prize
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In 1949, Ned Rorem studied at the Ecole Normale de Musique with Arthur Honegger in _______ and lived there for 6 years.
Paris
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Ned Rorem is known writing ________ as well as for composing music.
diaries
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Ned Rorem taught at University of Buffalo, University of Utah, and in 1980 appointed to the _________.
Curtis Institute
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Many of Ned Rorem's musical works exhibit advanced harmonies techniques (altered chords, polytonal passages & modified serialism ) he has never strayed from ______.
diatonicism
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Even though Ned Rorem is best known as a composer of songs, he won a Rulitzer prize for an orchestral suite called _________.
Air Music
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________ was an American composer, play wright, and biographer.
Shirley Graham DuBois
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_______ studied at the Sorbonne, Howard Univ., Columbia Univ., Morgan State, and Oberlin.
Shirley Graham DuBois
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While at Oberlin College, Shirley Graham composed ______.
Tom-Tom.
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________ was composed by Shirley Graham while she supervised the Negro Unit of the Chicago Federal Theater.
Little Black Sambo
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"Tin Pan Alley" is a term for the music publishing area of New York where songs were published as sheet music. __________ never published music for "Tin Pan Alley"
Cole Porter
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In 1972, Baker, returned to trombone and recorded with _____ in an orchestra directed by ______.
Bill Evans | George Russell
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David Baker played with what bands and Groups? | name 6.
``` Lionel Hampton Stan Kenton Maynard Ferguson his own band 1958-99 George Russel Quincy Jones ```
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David Baker was a ___ ____ ____ ____ _____.
Trombonist, cellist, composer, writer, and educator
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David Baker was nominated for a Pulitzer prize for his competition, _______.
"Levels", a combination of jazz and classical ensemble.
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David Baker is associated with the _______ center for the performing arts.
Kennedy
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In 1994, David Baker became conductor and artistic director of the ________.
Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.
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__________ was invented to address the White House on jazz and democracy in 1998.
David Baker
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__________ Studied privately with J.J Johnson, Bob Brookmeyer, George Russel, Janos Starker, Gunther Schuller, and others.
David Baker
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David Baker has taught at _______, _______, and ____.
Lincoln University IU Indianapolis Public Schools
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At IU, David Baker established the _______ Bebop Band.
21st - Century
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In 2007, David Baker was honored by the Kennedy Center with their _____ award.
Living Legend.
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David Baker received honorary doctorate from ______, _____, ____ .
Wabash College Oberlin College New England Onservatory
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_______ continues (*continued) to serve as conductor and musical director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.
David Baker
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David Baker was nominated for a ________, &_______.
Pulitzer Prize 1973 | grammy 1979
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David Baker was honored by ____ magazine for lifetime achievement and inducted into their Jazz Education Hall of Fame.
Down Beat
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Baker acknowledges ____ & _____ as principal influences.
Ives and Bartok
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Avant garde effects for trombone included _______, & ______.
Slides and smears
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David Baker was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for _______________.
"Concerto for Double Bass, Jazz Band, and Wind, and Strings"
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David Baker played with ____________ and _________ before starting his own band in Indianapolis.
Stan KENTON and Maynard Ferguson
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In 1967, David Baker took up the cello and recorded with _________.
Charles Tyler
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May Aufderheide's father was a ________________-and her aunt, May Kolmer, was a ___________.
semi-professional violinist Pianist who played with the Indianapolis Symphony
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May Auferheide learned classical piano from ____________, but was more interested in popular music of the day.
her aunt, May Kolmer
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While a teenager in finishing school, May Auferheide, wrote ___________.
"Dusty Rag" 1908
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"Dusty Rag" was originally published by Cecil Crab, but did not sell well, and was republished by ________________.
J. H. Aufderheide and Company
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May Auferderheide had _____ published rags, and ___ waltzes and songs to her credit.
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In 1916, Hoagy Carmichael took lessons in Indianapolis from __________________________
Reginald DuValle, a ragtime pianist who taught Hoagy ragtime and Jazz. DuValle was black.
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Montgomery tends to build solos from melodies in single notes to ______________ and finally to _____________.
Octave passages to chords
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Monk Montgomery played the ___________and Buddy Montgomery played _______________.
Monk: Double Bass Buddy: piano and vibraphone
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____________________ played single note jazz melodies and chords with his left hand, and also played _________.
Wes Montgomery Octaves
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The playing of ________ became the trademark for Wes Montgomery.
octaves
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___________ toured and recorded with Lionel Hampton in 1948.
Wes Montgomery
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Aufderheide's rags had moderately syncopated melodies lines over regular __________ bass patterns.
oom-pah
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Aufderheide eschewed the standard AABBACCDD rag form in favor of three-strain compositions that repeat either the ________, __________, or _________ section at the end.
A, B, or C

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