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.