Popular Music
blues
American folk music style with a simplistic, repetitive, poetic style
Two key figures of the swing and big band era are:
Duke Ellington Benny Goodman
One of the key components of successful rock and roll is improvisation.
False The key traits of rock and roll were the vocal line, a driving backbeat, electric guitar, and loud, amplified volume.
Who is known as the "King of Ragtime?"
Scott Joplin
blues scale
a major scale with the addition of flatted 3rd, 5th, and 7th scale degrees
Which of the following was not an influence on early rock and roll?
big bands (were big influences American youth culture,R& B,country-western)
mute
device that softens an instrument's sound
backbeat
loud, steady rhythm accenting beats 2 and 4 in 4/4 meter
ragtime
mainly a piano style featuring a steady left hand accompaniment with syncopated right hand melody
A blues scale takes a
major scale and flats the 3rd, 5th, and 7th scale degrees.
boogie woogie
piano blues incorporating fast tempo and a cheerful mood
rock and roll
popular music characterized by vocals, hard backbeat, loud volume, and electric guitar
Choose the styles that were blended to create the jazz genre.
ragtime blues band music
The technique of improvising nonsense syllables vocally was called________________singing.
scat
scat singing
vocal jazz technique using nonsense syllables