Praxis 5113 Genres of Music
Blues - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ style of music evolving from African American spirituals and noted for
its melancholy sound
Blues Scale - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ a major scale in which the 3rd, the 7th, and sometimes the 5th
degrees are lowered
characteristics of blues - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 12-bar musical form; three phrase AAB lyrical form;
and Emotional, personal lyrics convey feelings of lust, love, jealousy, suffering, hard times, etc.
Bebop Jazz - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ smaller groups played this in the 1940s and 1950s.
Free-flowing style of jazz was developed in jam sessions where one musician would solo right after the
next.
described as complex melodies over rapidly shifting chord prgressions
TAPPING
Dixieland Jazz - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ A musical genre in which the trumpet carries the main
melody, the clarinet plays off it with a higher countermelody, and the trombone plays a simpler, lower
tune.
Gospel music - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ church music that blends elements of folk music, spirituals,
hymns, and popular music
Motown - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ is the term that refers to the style of music that emerged in
Detroit, Michigan in the late 1960's. The Sound was a mixture of several popular musical styles and can
be considered a form of soul music.
Opera - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and
instrumentalists.
Rap music - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ This genre arose out of the hip-hop culture in New York City in
the 1970s and 1980s. It emerged from clubs where DJs played and remixed different records and sounds
and then spoke (or rapped) over the top
rhythm and blues - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated as R&B or RnB, is a
genre of popular African-American music that originated in the 1940s.
R&B ensemble consists of... - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ -lead vocalist or instrumentalist
-rhythm section
-ensemble of voices, wind instruments, or guitar
Ragtime Jazz (1890s and 1910s) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ ragtime was early model for jazz--> horn
players syncopated melodies over beat
horn players borrowed ragtime time's right hand melodic phrasing
Blues - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ style of music evolving from African American spirituals and noted for
its melancholy sound
Blues Scale - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ a major scale in which the 3rd, the 7th, and sometimes the 5th
degrees are lowered
characteristics of blues - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 12-bar musical form; three phrase AAB lyrical form;
and Emotional, personal lyrics convey feelings of lust, love, jealousy, suffering, hard times, etc.
Bebop Jazz - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ smaller groups played this in the 1940s and 1950s.
Free-flowing style of jazz was developed in jam sessions where one musician would solo right after the
next.
described as complex melodies over rapidly shifting chord prgressions
TAPPING
Dixieland Jazz - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ A musical genre in which the trumpet carries the main
melody, the clarinet plays off it with a higher countermelody, and the trombone plays a simpler, lower
tune.
Gospel music - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ church music that blends elements of folk music, spirituals,
hymns, and popular music
Motown - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ is the term that refers to the style of music that emerged in
Detroit, Michigan in the late 1960's. The Sound was a mixture of several popular musical styles and can
be considered a form of soul music.
Opera - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and
instrumentalists.
Rap music - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ This genre arose out of the hip-hop culture in New York City in
the 1970s and 1980s. It emerged from clubs where DJs played and remixed different records and sounds
and then spoke (or rapped) over the top
rhythm and blues - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated as R&B or RnB, is a
genre of popular African-American music that originated in the 1940s.
R&B ensemble consists of... - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ -lead vocalist or instrumentalist
-rhythm section
-ensemble of voices, wind instruments, or guitar
Ragtime Jazz (1890s and 1910s) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ ragtime was early model for jazz--> horn
players syncopated melodies over beat
horn players borrowed ragtime time's right hand melodic phrasing
