Ragtime
Based on an African-American piano style marked by highly syncopated melodies.
ragtime
Based on a simple, repetitive, poetic music structure based on a 12 bar harmonic progression.
Blues
Swing style music that is known as America's original music
jazz
Most American folk music was based from what (name one)
Religion
Common life
Homeland/nationalism
Third String Jazz is a mixture of jazz and what other type of music
classical
King of Ragtime who made it into a popular art form
Scott Joplin
The center for the blues
St Louis (Go Cards!)
Most famous and influential jazz musician is trumpetist
Louis Armstrong
The first African American to write an opera and have it performed on stage.
William Grant Still
Free style music with no rules, usually with extreme instrument sounds
avant garde
Home of ragtime music
St. Louis (Go Cards!)
A lowered note on the blues scale, usually a 3rd, 5th or 7th
blue note
A key characteristic of jazz music is that the first note is played longer causing the music to
swing
The King of Marches. Wrote over 350 marches while serving with the US Marine Band and played over 16,000 concerts.
John Phillip Sousa
Musicians played fast music that was hard to dance too, its ok they did not want to get paid
Bebop
The most famous rag piece of all time. Written by Scott Joplin. Canadians would enjoy it.
Maple Leaf Rag
A blues harmonic progression is made up of how many bars
12
The center of jazz, where the "saints" go marching in
New Orleans
A type of Mexican dance where the musicians wore large hats and costumes.
Mariachi
Musician who made big bands a thing in the 1930s
Duke Ellington
Rags are played on what instrument
piano
King of the Blues (lets see who has been paying attention)
Solo which interrupts harmonic progression
break
King of American folk music who wrote simple songs such as "Oh Sussanah" and "Camptown Races"
Stephen Foster
Mr. Brown's favorite baseball team. See the other clues for the answer
St. Louis Cardinals