CH 56 music quiz

Where did slaves meet in the pre-Civil War era to dance to the accompaniment of drums, gourds, mouth harps, and banjos?

Congo Square in New Orleans

Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Thelonious Monk were figureheads of what jazz style?

bebop

Which singer is also known as "Lady Day"?

billie holiday

Melodic "pitch bending" is also known as

blue notes

Eighteenth-century slaves from Africa's west coast brought the _______ style to America.

call-and-response singing

_____ is where the fusion of ragtime, blues, and other musics resulted in the development of jazz.

new orleans

Which is NOT generally regarded as a primary antecedent to jazz?

parlor songs

The music heard in Congo Square was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT

piano accompaniment

Latin American percussion instruments and dance rhythms had an influence on jazz.

true

Louis Armstrong is credited with the invention of scat-singing.

true

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the blues?

two-note trademark phrase

Which is NOT true of a typical blues progression?

The number of bars in each section varies

Ellington's first group was called

the Washingtonians

The text of country or rural blues that arose in the Mississippi Delta after the Civil War

voiced the difficulties of everyday life was set to a repeating harmonic pattern typically consisted of a three-line stanza

single statement of a melodic-harmonic pattern

He is credited with the invention of scat-singing

A jazz chorus is

single statement of a melodic-harmonic pattern

In the 1930s and 40s, early jazz gave way to

swing, or big-band

Which of the following does NOT apply to Take the A Train?

written and performed by Louis Armstrong

____ is a style of performance, particularly on a brass instrument, that displays an unrestrained, raspy quality of tone.

"Gutbucket" playing

A blues text typically consists of a _____ stanza whose first two lines are identical.

3 line

Duke Ellington is associated with

big-band jazz

the classically trained pianist who served as an arranger and composer for the Ellington band was:

billy strayhorn

Big-band jazz is a

large-ensemble style with sections of brass, reeds, and rhythm instruments.

Which statement is NOT true?

Billie Holiday was the first African American to study at The Juilliard School of Music.