This style of music is exciting to hear, but difficult to play. It is a style of piano music where the players hands have to do 2 totally different things.
What is ragtime.
100
He invented the first way to record music, the phonograph.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
When a player makes up the music, right there on the spot, instead of playing what is written off a songsheet.
What is improv, or improvisation.
100
Because of the blending of many cultures and nationalities, this city was known as the 'melting pot' of sound.
What is New Orleans?
100
This is the nickname of our unit in 6th grade since we go from this early type of piano music to modern music.
What is RAG TO RAP?
200
When ordinary people like you and I sing a type of music we like, it is known as pop music. In the early 1900s, pop music was named for the people and was known as _________.
(Listen to example: Swanee River)
What is folk music.
200
He was known, not only for his great trumpet improvising, but also his unique singing voice.
(Listen)
Who is Louis Armstrong?
200
This structure of the blues, has 12 measures, using the I, IV, and V chords.
What is 12 bar blues or traditional blues.
200
Music often goes with a specific historical event. This song was later used as a kindergarten song called THE ANTS GO MARCHING but was originally an American Civil War song.
What is WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME?
200
In addition to Edison's gramophone, music could also be played back from a paper roll that was inserted into this instrument.
What is a player piano.
300
Any type of music that existed in our nation before the 1900s.
What is patriotic marches, folk music, slave songs or civil war music. (other answers may be accepted)
300
This man left home at age 11 to pursue a career playing ragtime piano. He did it, and is known as the king of ragtime.
Who is Scott Joplin?
300
In the lyrics of most blues songs, two lines are the same, and the third is different. A key element, is that the last word of the third line should _____________ with the first and second.
What is rhyme?
300
The poor state of economics in many African-American neighborhoods in the early nineteen hundreds, caused many black musicians to sing a style called the __________.
What is blues?
300
Jazz bands consisting of more than 15 players, who played swing music are known as this.
What is big bands.
400
This style of music came about with the blending of opera, ragtime, military music, spirituals, and more.
What is jazz?
400
She sang the blues, but not in the typical 12 bar blues, style, instead, she gave pop music a bluesy sound.
(You may use your binder.)
Who is Billie Holiday?
400
When a group of jazz musicians take turns playing solos back and forth, as if they are having a musical conversation.
(You may use your binder.)
What is collective improvisation.
400
When Louis Armstrong left New Orleans to join King Oliver's jazz band, he went to this great city, also know for it's jazz music.
What is Chicago?
400
This is the style of music when jazz started to pick up in tempo (become faster) and big bands played dance music.
What is swing?
500
This is a style of jazz singing, when the singer improvises, using nonsense words and syllables.
(Listen to example.)
What is scat?
500
Beside Billie Holiday, there was another great female blues singer who was known well in a time when males predominated in the music world. (You may use your binder.)
Who is Bessie Smith?
500
When you add certain black keys to your set of notes when improvising, these give the music a distinctly jazzy sound. They are known as this term.
What is blue notes (sharps and flats will also be accepted)?
500
This fast style of jazz helped lift the spirits of people during the Great Depression.
What is swing or big band music?
500
When a player improvises, it would sound bad to be random, so the player uses a preplanned set of these.