Ragtime
The main instrument used in Ragtime.
What is the PIANO?
Name one of the main instruments used in this style of Jazz.
What is TRUMPET, CLARINET, CORNET, TROMBONE, or PIANO?
The size of the Bands for Swing music were Large or Small.
What is LARGE?
The size of the Bands for Bebop music were Large or Small?
What is SMALL?
Instrument that has 88 strings and can play soft and loud.
What is the Piano?
Who is Scott Joplin?
He is the King of Jazz.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
She is the Queen of Jazz.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
Nicknamed the Bird because he loved chicken and known for playing the saxophone.
What was Charlie Parker?
The instrument that slides to and from notes.
What is the trombone.
How much did his piano lesson cost?
What is NOTHING? His piano teacher saw his talent and gave him free lessons to learn to play and write music.
When was New Orleans Jazz starting?
What is the 1920's?
What is DANCE?
Who is Dizzy Gillespie?
Name of the smaller brass instrument.
What is the Trumpet?
The decade that Ragtime began to be popular?
What is the 1900's?
The ability to mimic instrumental sounds with your voice while improvising nonsense.
What is SCAT singing?
What is the 1930's?
Bebop broke away from tradition to display musical skills in a complex way starting when.
What is the 1940's?
This instrument is made of brass but has a reed in the mouthpiece.
What is the Saxophone?
Name the composer and his piece of music (rag) that was named after a tree.
What is the Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin?
The ability to create music that is not written down while playing an instrument.
What is IMPROVISING?
The first Jazzman to write long works for his Orchestra where he played piano.
Who was Duke Ellington?
Because it was fast and complex, bebop was not meant for this.
What is DANCING?
This word is accenting the "upbeats" or weak beats in music.
What is syncopation?