Ragtime Characteristics
This instrument is the only instrument used in Ragtime music.
What is a piano?
A singer improvs in jazz by doing this.
What is scatting?
Louis covered his fingers with it.
What is a white cloth?
He practiced piano here as a child.
What is his mother's employer's house?
This Dixieland Jazz favorite is by Louis Armstrong
What is "When the Saints Go Marching In"?
A ragged, off the beat rhythm.
What is syncopation?
Dixieland Jazz doesn't use this instrument, which became popular later.
What is a saxophone?
The cause of his scratchy voice.
What is bulimia?
He grew up here, but wasn't born here.
What is Sedalia, MO?
What Dixieland Jazz groups were originally.
What is a marching band?
A piece of music that is in the Ragtime genre.
What is a rag?
This is making up music on the spot.
What is improv?
He played trumpet and did this.
This Ragtime favorite.
What is the Maple Leaf Rag?
This female scatter was the best of her time.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
This was the year Ragtime became a genre.
What is 1890?
What is Dixieland Jazz?
He was a part of this group.
What is the Hot Five?
Scott Joplin, James Scott, and this Ragtime composer were known as the "Big Three".
Who is Joseph Lamb?
This is a controversial song.
Ragtime music was performed here as background music.
One of the most important characteristics of jazz, this means to alternate between short and long durations.
He grew up poor here.
What is New Orleans?
This old Ragtime favorite.
What is The Entertainer?
This composer was both a Dixieland Jazzer and a Ragtime composer
Who is Jelly Roll Morton?