Early Jazz
The banjo has its origins in __________.
West Africa
The 1920s is marked by what system of production consisting of assembly line manufacturing, product standardization, and mass consumption?
Fordist
Louis Armstrong is known for mastering what form of singing that consists of nonsense syllables instead of words?
Scat singing
What was the rhythmic core of the swing groove?
A steady, unaccented four-beats-to-the-bar foundation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPBCpXFrz-Q
This is an example of what piano style, marked by ostinato bass patterns in the left hand and bluesy, percussive patterns in the right hand?
Boogie-woogie
African American string bands played what type of repertoire?
Formal European dance and parlor songs
Popular minstrel songs
Various plantation and improvised forms
Ragtime and blues
“Tin Pan Alley” may refer to:
A street in New York City known for the cacophonous sounds of multiple pianos
The early 20th century music publishing industry
Formulaic pop music in the early-mid 20th century
A popular song form also known as AABA
This important trumpeter and soloist learned about and how to play jazz from recordings, which not only offered exposure to the music but the ability to listen repeatedly and imaginatively.
Bix Beiderbecke
The Swing Era was bounded by what two crucial events in American history?
The Great Depression and World War II
Because Kansas City-based musicians often had to play for many hours in a jam session setting, they relied on __________ and __________.
Simple forms (like the twelve-bar blues), head arrangements
Jazz is __________.
Popular music
Art music
Folk muic
Seeing jazz as the foundation for American classical music, __________ coined the term “symphonic jazz,” which he saw as representing the fusion of “Negro folk art” and European high-culture.
Paul Whiteman
The “Chicago Style” (or “Austin High Gang”) refers to __________.
A group of white jazz musicians began by imitating New Orleans bands and evolved into a more aggressively rhythmic school that combined expansive solos and polyphonic theme statements
The __________ is an energetic, more flexible form of dance than the foxtrot or waltz and often features improvisatory “breakaways” and “air steps.”
Lindy Hop
Much of Duke Ellington’s music is considered __________ because it attempts to describe specific places, people, or events through sound.
Programmatic
Despite the many rumors and unreliable oral testimony surrounding Buddy Bolden’s history as the first important musician in jazz, Bolden is consistently recalled as having established what important aspect of jazz performance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZwpzK57z0Y
This is an example of what type of arranging?
Sectional
Which section is NOT usually included in a big band:
String section
Taking improvised riffs and harmonizing them on the spot to create an unwritten arrangement is known as ___________.
Head arrangement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4LEL3OREKE
During the saxophone solo, the other horns players are __________.
Playing a riff
Vernon and Irene Castle were _________.
Dance instructors who popularized ragtime dance among middle-class audiences
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKJFzdSkZgg
Musicians specializing in this style of piano playing, _________, were frequently hired to perform for what type of parties in Harlem during the 1920s?
Stride
Rent parties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WPCBieSESI
Earl Hines, the pianist in this example, is known for which stylistic development of piano playing?
Improvised single lines, “trumpet-style” piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIrQSLM-zAM
What does the title of this example, “Walkin’ and Swingin’,” refer to?
Switching between a two-beat bassline and a four-beat swing bassline