Jazz is - ANSWER America's classical music, folk music, a popular music
African American music is characterized by - ANSWER polyrhythm, call and
response, blues notes
Which of the following genres is/are part of early African American folk
culture? - ANSWER ballads
Field hollers and work songs - ANSWER expressed the loneliness and
hardship of African Americans and contributed to the music that became known
as the blues only
What musical characteristics of the spiritual directly influenced jazz? -
ANSWER call and response
The __________ was an ensemble from an African American college that
performed spirituals before the general public as early as 1871. - ANSWER
Fisk Jubilee Singers
The blues has ____-line stanzas. - ANSWER three
Country blues musicians changed the timbre and pitch of their guitars by using -
ANSWER bottlenecks
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey was - ANSWER a vaudeville/classic blues artist
Country blues were - ANSWER usually accompanied by guitar
Vaudeville blues - also known as classic or urban blues - songs were -
ANSWER performed on black theater circuits.
The "Father of the Blues" was this cornet-playing bandleader who first heard
the blues in a Mississippi train station: - ANSWER W.C. Handy
,Which chords or harmonies are used in the twelve-bar blues? - ANSWER I,
IV, and V
In twelve-bar blues form, - ANSWER the overall chord progression is always
the same and each twelve-bar cycle is called a chorus only.
What pattern of chord changes below is used in the basic twelve-bar blues
form? - ANSWER I I I I IV IV I I V V I I
A turnaround is - ANSWER chords played in the last few bars of a chorus,
leading on to the next chorus.
Bessie Smith - ANSWER made nearly two hundred recordings and starred in
the short film St. Louis Blues only.
The minstrel show - ANSWER was established as early as the 1840s.
featured performers in blackface makeup and
reinforced many degrading stereotypes of African Americans only.
"Jim Crow" was - ANSWER a standard character in the minstrel show and the
legal system of post-Reconstruction segregation only.
Among the African American dances that shocked and invigorated the country
in the early twentieth century was - ANSWER the Charleston.
James Reese Europe was - ANSWER a black musician who perfumed ragtime
for white dance instructors and leader of the 369th Infantry Band, or
"Hellfighters," during World War I only.
Which is true about American brass bands? - ANSWER They were common in
African American as well as white communities.
John Philip Sousa - ANSWER invented the sousaphone and composed many
composed many marches, including "The Stars and Stripes Forever" only.
A simple way of diagramming march form is - ANSWER A A B B C C D D
, The popularity of the trumpet (cornet), clarinet, and trombone in jazz was due
mostly to the influence of - ANSWER brass bands.
Which is true about ragtime? - ANSWER Its "ragged" polyrhythmic
syncopation contributed to jazz and it was a form of composition first published
in 1897.
At the turn of the century, the term "ragtime" referred to - ANSWER ALL
THESE: a piano style, a type of song, a syncopated dance.
Who is the best-known composer of ragtime music? - ANSWER Scott Joplin
By 1900, the syncopations of ragtime music had shifted from the banjo to the
following instrument: - ANSWER piano.
In addition to its use in marches, "march form" was widely used in the
following genre: - ANSWER ragtime
Scott Joplin's most famous composition is - ANSWER "The Maple Leaf Rag"
"Secondary ragtime" is - ANSWER a polyrhythm, featuring a meter of three
superimposed on a meter of two.
Which of following is/are true of Wilbur Sweatman? - ANSWER ALL OF
THESE: He was known for playing three clarinets simultaneously; his career
spanned the transition to the sale of recordings over sheet music; his
spontaneous musical embellishments hinted at a new era of bluesy
improvisation.
The idea that "Jazz is African American music" is rooted in race, not ethnicity. -
ANSWER False
"Race records" were records kept by the census designed to prevent African
Americans from voting in the South. - ANSWER False
The minstrel show's characteristics, including blackface, lingered in American
show business until the early 1950s. - ANSWER True
African American music is characterized by - ANSWER polyrhythm, call and
response, blues notes
Which of the following genres is/are part of early African American folk
culture? - ANSWER ballads
Field hollers and work songs - ANSWER expressed the loneliness and
hardship of African Americans and contributed to the music that became known
as the blues only
What musical characteristics of the spiritual directly influenced jazz? -
ANSWER call and response
The __________ was an ensemble from an African American college that
performed spirituals before the general public as early as 1871. - ANSWER
Fisk Jubilee Singers
The blues has ____-line stanzas. - ANSWER three
Country blues musicians changed the timbre and pitch of their guitars by using -
ANSWER bottlenecks
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey was - ANSWER a vaudeville/classic blues artist
Country blues were - ANSWER usually accompanied by guitar
Vaudeville blues - also known as classic or urban blues - songs were -
ANSWER performed on black theater circuits.
The "Father of the Blues" was this cornet-playing bandleader who first heard
the blues in a Mississippi train station: - ANSWER W.C. Handy
,Which chords or harmonies are used in the twelve-bar blues? - ANSWER I,
IV, and V
In twelve-bar blues form, - ANSWER the overall chord progression is always
the same and each twelve-bar cycle is called a chorus only.
What pattern of chord changes below is used in the basic twelve-bar blues
form? - ANSWER I I I I IV IV I I V V I I
A turnaround is - ANSWER chords played in the last few bars of a chorus,
leading on to the next chorus.
Bessie Smith - ANSWER made nearly two hundred recordings and starred in
the short film St. Louis Blues only.
The minstrel show - ANSWER was established as early as the 1840s.
featured performers in blackface makeup and
reinforced many degrading stereotypes of African Americans only.
"Jim Crow" was - ANSWER a standard character in the minstrel show and the
legal system of post-Reconstruction segregation only.
Among the African American dances that shocked and invigorated the country
in the early twentieth century was - ANSWER the Charleston.
James Reese Europe was - ANSWER a black musician who perfumed ragtime
for white dance instructors and leader of the 369th Infantry Band, or
"Hellfighters," during World War I only.
Which is true about American brass bands? - ANSWER They were common in
African American as well as white communities.
John Philip Sousa - ANSWER invented the sousaphone and composed many
composed many marches, including "The Stars and Stripes Forever" only.
A simple way of diagramming march form is - ANSWER A A B B C C D D
, The popularity of the trumpet (cornet), clarinet, and trombone in jazz was due
mostly to the influence of - ANSWER brass bands.
Which is true about ragtime? - ANSWER Its "ragged" polyrhythmic
syncopation contributed to jazz and it was a form of composition first published
in 1897.
At the turn of the century, the term "ragtime" referred to - ANSWER ALL
THESE: a piano style, a type of song, a syncopated dance.
Who is the best-known composer of ragtime music? - ANSWER Scott Joplin
By 1900, the syncopations of ragtime music had shifted from the banjo to the
following instrument: - ANSWER piano.
In addition to its use in marches, "march form" was widely used in the
following genre: - ANSWER ragtime
Scott Joplin's most famous composition is - ANSWER "The Maple Leaf Rag"
"Secondary ragtime" is - ANSWER a polyrhythm, featuring a meter of three
superimposed on a meter of two.
Which of following is/are true of Wilbur Sweatman? - ANSWER ALL OF
THESE: He was known for playing three clarinets simultaneously; his career
spanned the transition to the sale of recordings over sheet music; his
spontaneous musical embellishments hinted at a new era of bluesy
improvisation.
The idea that "Jazz is African American music" is rooted in race, not ethnicity. -
ANSWER False
"Race records" were records kept by the census designed to prevent African
Americans from voting in the South. - ANSWER False
The minstrel show's characteristics, including blackface, lingered in American
show business until the early 1950s. - ANSWER True
