Early jazz
This started the beginning of jazz.
What is the founding of New Orleans?
Ragtime uses this instrument.
What is a piano?
Note worth one beat
Quarter note
This is melody.
The tune of a song.
This ended the early jazz era.
What is using new instruments like the trombone and saxophone?
These are musical events that the first ragtime performers held.
What are rags?
Note worth two beats.
Half note
This is accompaniment.
This supports the melody but is not the main idea of the song.
This is the city where jazz was born.
What is New Orleans?
This guy is the most famous ragtime composer, and he made ragtime music popular.
Who is Scott Joplin?
Note worth half a beat.
Eighth note.
One melody, nothing else.
This is the city square where early jazz musicians came together to continue the music from their homeland.
What is Congo Square?
Ragtime is all about these kinds of rhythms! (Fancy "S" word.)
What is syncopation?
This is a group of beats separated by barlines.
What is a bar?
This is homophonic.
One melody and accompaniment.
These kinds of instruments were played in Congo Square.
What are kalimbas, shakers, drums, gourds, animal bones?
Ragtime comes from this region of the South.
What is the Mississippi Valley?
This tells us how many beats are in each bar of music.
What is a time signature?
This is polyphonic.
What is music with multiple melodies at the same time?