West African Traditions
Musical storyteller of the Mandinka people.
What is Jali?
Language often used
What is Latin?
Genre associated with Big Band era of 1930s-40s.
What is swing?
A musical texture in which a unison, single melody is sounded.
Leading figure of the Swing Era.
Who is Duke Ellington?
Characteristics seen in subsequent musical styles and genres include the stressed importance on storytelling, combination of sung passages with instrumental interludes and this
What is call-and-response?
Music often sung by medieval clerics without instrumental accompaniment.
What is plainchant?
Jazz music's place of origin.
What is New Orleans?
What is lining out?
Brought elaborate polyphonic settings to the forefront during the Renaissance period.
Who is Palestrina?
A genre of music that can be performed in big bands or combos.
What is jazz?
What is homophonic?
Early genre rooted in work songs and spirituals built upon a standard form that originated in the Mississippi Delta.
What is the blues?
A non-metrical instrumental improvisation in classical Turkish music.
What is taksim?
The Dean of African American Composers.
Who is William Grant Still?
Blend African musical elements with Christian themes
What are spirituals?
Musical form in which successive stanzas are sung to the same music.
What is strophic?
Genre featuring small combos, virtuosic improvisation, fast tempos, and complex harmonies.
What is bebop?
"Angels We Have Heard On High" features this.
What is melisma?
What is the blues?
Music is used in the Yoruba religion to attract gods' attention, represent a deity's character, support worship through song and dance, and this.
What is "speaking drums" that imitate vocal inflections of native language?
The primary location where organum was developed.
What is the Notre Dame School?
Jazz musical characteristics include syncopation, call-and-response, use of instruments like the saxophone, trombone, and trumpet with rhythm section, and this.
What is improvisation?
Both Handel's Messiah and Bach's St. Matthew Passion are examples of this.
What is oratorio?
Along with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, served as prominent figure in bebop era.
Who is Thelonious Monk?