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