African Roots
The Role that African music served.
What is Functional?
The Role that European Music served.
What is Art?
Ragtime is a style written for this.
What is Solo Piano.
This city is the birthplace of Jazz.
What is New Orleans?
This person was the father of Ragtime piano.
Who is Scott Joplin?
Type of African rhythms that overlap each other.
What are Polyrhythms?
Two traits found in jazz that are of primarily European origin.
What are the instruments and the harmony?
These are some of Ragtime's African influences.
What are Polyrhythms?
These are three common Early Jazz Instruments.
What are Drums, Bass, Tuba, Clarinet, Trumpet, Trombone, Banjo, Piano?
This person call himself the "Father of Jazz music" and wrote a piano piece called "Fingerbreaker."
Who is Jelly Roll Morton?
This music evolved from slave field hollers and African American folk songs.
What is the Blues?
Pre-jazz dance bands of the late 19th and early 20th century primary function was playing here.
What are dances, parties, picnics, and funerals?
These are some of Ragtime's European influences.
What are the piano, written notes, and march beats?
This is the act of many musicians creating music at the same time.
What is Collective Improvisation?
This musician popularized Jazz by playing trumpet in a solo fashion and having a very signature sounding voice.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Usually characterized by plaintiveness and melancholy with a slow tempo.
What are qualities of Blues Music?
Late 19th and early 20th century dance bands played these songs.
Popular dance songs.
Ragtime was an example of a combination of these political attitudes.
What is Liberal and Conservative?
This Amendment required people of darker skin to live in the same area of New Orleans.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This was the first recorded, all-white, Jazz band.
Who is The Original Dixieland Jass Band?
Instruments playing in the Blues style often bend pitches to create this quality.
What is Vocal?
Early Jazz music can be found playing here.
What are seedy night clubs and respectable Opera Halls?
Ragtime represents a combination of these two different cultural ideals.
These are songs that Early Jazz Bands might play.
What are ragtime tunes, military music, religious music, classical music, popular tunes, blues tunes, and original tunes?
This person wrote Maple Leaf Rag.
Who is Scott Joplin?