Dixieland Terms
1. What style of improvisation does the Dixieland band use?
2. Accurately describe how it works.
1. What is the "collective improvisation"?
2. teacher discretion
A short melodic idea, usually one to two
bars in length, that is repeated as the core
idea of a musical passage.
What is a "riff"?
Accurately describe what a cornet is.
teacher approval
Name two female jazz artists we have learned about in class.
Who are Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Sarah Vaughn, others?
Go to the piano and play the 12-bar blues progression.
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When the band or rhythm section
punctuates beats, dropping out or leaving
space, as a soloist plays
What is "stop time"?
A generic term for the jazz and much
popular music of the mid 30-mid 40s.
What is "swing"?
A group of related instruments in a
big band
What is a "section"?
Trumpet-playing artist acknowledged for making jazz into an "art form".
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Besides New Orleans and New York, with what other city in the USA does jazz have a history/relationship?
Chicago
When the band stops playing for a short
period of time – usually one or two measures – to
feature a soloist
What is a "break"?
A jazz vocal style in which the
soloist improvises using made-up or
“nonsense’ syllables
What is "scat singing"?
The four sections of a Big Band.
What are saxophone, trombone, trumpet and rhythm sections?
Jazz singer most famous for their brilliant and virtuosic scat singing.
Who is "Ella Fitzgerald"?
In jazz a soloist improvises their solo using the notes of this scale.
What is the blues scale?
A short, coda-like section added to the end
of a composition
What is a "tag"?
A common term for a jazz band
arrangement
What is a "chart"?
Collective name applied to
the major NYC sheet music publishers in the early-mid 1900s.
What is "Tin Pan Alley"?
The first white bandleader to have an integrated Big Band.
Who is "Benny Goodman"?
Go to the piano and play the blues scale in C :)
plays the blues scale correctly
What is a "chorus" in a jazz performance? Give an example.
teacher discretion
Harlem became central locale for black artists,
writers, musicians and the engine of a self-
confident black artistic consciousness;
primary center for African American culture
What is the "Harlem Renaissance"?
Someone who performed a
song, usually at a music store, to encourage
people to buy the sheet music.
What is a "song plugger"?
Artist who requested their band be announced to the crowd before entering the dance hall through the main ballroom door (not the musicians' entrance).
Who is "Duke Ellington"?
What are the two sections of the Dixieland Band? Correctly name the instruments in each.
What are the frontline (clarinet, cornet/trumpet, trombone) and rhythm section (guitar/banjo, piano, drums, bass/tuba)?