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Oxford Questions Flashcards

1
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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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11
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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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16
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Wes Montgomery was _________ taught by _______.

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self

listening to records.

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17
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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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18
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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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21
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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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24
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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,

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Ned Rorem

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Ned Rorem studied piano with ________ and music theory with ______________.

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Bonds

Sowerby

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Ned Rorem’s interest focused on 20th century music, especially the __________ & ___________.

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French Impressionist

Stravinsky

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Singer, ________, was one who Ned Rorem had an interest in their work.

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Billie Holiday

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29
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Ned Rorem studied at Northwestern, moved to Curtis Institute, but found studying with Rosario Scalero to be ________.

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too rigid and conservative.

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30
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________ became a music copyist for Virgil Thomson in New York.

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Ned Rorem

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31
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Ned Rorem studied the summer of 1946 and 47 at Tanglewood as a part of _______ composition class.

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Copland’s

32
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Ned Rorem completed his musical studies at _______.

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Julliard school

33
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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 ___________.

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Ned Rorem

34
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Ned Rorem’s “Overture in C” was recipient of the __________, and performed in Carnegie Hall.

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genshwin prize

35
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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.

A

Paris

36
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Ned Rorem is known writing ________ as well as for composing music.

A

diaries

37
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Ned Rorem taught at University of Buffalo, University of Utah, and in 1980 appointed to the _________.

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Curtis Institute

38
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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 ______.

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diatonicism

39
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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 _________.

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Air Music

40
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________ was an American composer, play wright, and biographer.

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Shirley Graham DuBois

41
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_______ studied at the Sorbonne, Howard Univ., Columbia Univ., Morgan State, and Oberlin.

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Shirley Graham DuBois

42
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While at Oberlin College, Shirley Graham composed ______.

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Tom-Tom.

43
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________ was composed by Shirley Graham while she supervised the Negro Unit of the Chicago Federal Theater.

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Little Black Sambo

44
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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”

A

Cole Porter

45
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In 1972, Baker, returned to trombone and recorded with _____ in an orchestra directed by ______.

A

Bill Evans

George Russell

46
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David Baker played with what bands and Groups?

name 6.

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Lionel Hampton
Stan Kenton
Maynard Ferguson
his own band  1958-99
George Russel
Quincy Jones
47
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David Baker was a ___ ____ ____ ____ _____.

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Trombonist, cellist, composer, writer, and educator

48
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David Baker was nominated for a Pulitzer prize for his competition, _______.

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“Levels”, a combination of jazz and classical ensemble.

49
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David Baker is associated with the _______ center for the performing arts.

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Kennedy

50
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In 1994, David Baker became conductor and artistic director of the ________.

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Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.

51
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__________ was invented to address the White House on jazz and democracy in 1998.

A

David Baker

52
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__________ Studied privately with J.J Johnson, Bob Brookmeyer, George Russel, Janos Starker, Gunther Schuller, and others.

A

David Baker

53
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David Baker has taught at _______, _______, and ____.

A

Lincoln University
IU
Indianapolis Public Schools

54
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At IU, David Baker established the _______ Bebop Band.

A

21st - Century

55
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In 2007, David Baker was honored by the Kennedy Center with their _____ award.

A

Living Legend.

56
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David Baker received honorary doctorate from ______, _____, ____ .

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Wabash College
Oberlin College
New England Onservatory

57
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_______ continues (*continued) to serve as conductor and musical director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.

A

David Baker

58
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David Baker was nominated for a ________, &_______.

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Pulitzer Prize 1973

grammy 1979

59
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David Baker was honored by ____ magazine for lifetime achievement and inducted into their Jazz Education Hall of Fame.

A

Down Beat

60
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Baker acknowledges ____ & _____ as principal influences.

A

Ives and Bartok

61
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Avant garde effects for trombone included _______, & ______.

A

Slides and smears

62
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David Baker was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for _______________.

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“Concerto for Double Bass, Jazz Band, and Wind, and Strings”

63
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David Baker played with ____________ and _________ before starting his own band in Indianapolis.

A

Stan KENTON and Maynard Ferguson

64
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In 1967, David Baker took up the cello and recorded with _________.

A

Charles Tyler

65
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May Aufderheide’s father was a ________________-and her aunt, May Kolmer, was a ___________.

A

semi-professional violinist

Pianist who played with the Indianapolis Symphony

66
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May Auferheide learned classical piano from ____________, but was more interested in popular music of the day.

A

her aunt, May Kolmer

67
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While a teenager in finishing school, May Auferheide, wrote ___________.

A

“Dusty Rag” 1908

68
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“Dusty Rag” was originally published by Cecil Crab, but did not sell well, and was republished by ________________.

A

J. H. Aufderheide and Company

69
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May Auferderheide had _____ published rags, and ___ waltzes and songs to her credit.

A

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70
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In 1916, Hoagy Carmichael took lessons in Indianapolis from __________________________

A

Reginald DuValle, a ragtime pianist who taught Hoagy ragtime and Jazz. DuValle was black.

71
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Montgomery tends to build solos from melodies in single notes to ______________ and finally to _____________.

A

Octave passages

to chords

72
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Monk Montgomery played the ___________and Buddy Montgomery played _______________.

A

Monk: Double Bass

Buddy: piano and vibraphone

73
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____________________ played single note jazz melodies and chords with his left hand, and also played _________.

A

Wes Montgomery

Octaves

74
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The playing of ________ became the trademark for Wes Montgomery.

A

octaves

75
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___________ toured and recorded with Lionel Hampton in 1948.

A

Wes Montgomery

76
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Aufderheide’s rags had moderately syncopated melodies lines over regular __________ bass patterns.

A

oom-pah

77
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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

A, B, or C

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