Before nineteen hundred, there was no way to record music. However, music was still enjoyed. It was shared by.....
What is performing live? Singing or playing live.
100
This major world event influenced the lyrics and mood of many songs produced during the 1910s.
What is World War 1?
100
The most popular genre of music during the 1920s; usually sounded depressed.
What is the blues?
100
The genre (or style) of music most popular during the early 1900s. It was played on the piano and used intricate two-handed rhythms.
What is ragtime?
100
This man is well remembered as the father of ragtime music. He left home at age 11 to have a career playing in saloons and clubs.
Who is Scott Joplin?
200
The instrument used most often in ragtime music of the early 1900s.
What is the piano?
200
Alexander's Ragtime Band was one of the first jazz bands in the United States. List TWO of the seven instruments that would have been included in this band.
What are the trumpet (or cornet), trombone, clarinet, bass, banjo, guitar, drums?
200
*Listen* This woman was nicknamed "Empress of the Blues"
Who is Bessie Smith?
200
This event happened in October of 1929 to throw the United States into the Great Depression during the 1930s.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
200
This pianist had a name that resembled the name of a donut. He was a great jazz and ragtime player.
Who is Jelly Roll Morton?
300
Listen to this recording. It was sung about soldiers returning home from which war?
What is American Civil War.
300
This term means several people making up the music as they go along, but they work as a team so they don't 'steal the spotlight?
What is collective improvisation?
300
The way the lyrics are set up, or form, in blues songs-- the first two lines are the same, the third line is different.
What is AAB?
300
This dance was the most popular dance of the 1920s.
What is the charleston?
300
This man was a jazz cornetist and singer. He worked hard to save up money for a used cornet and taught himself to play. He was one of the greatest jazz musicians ever.
Who is Louis Armstrong.
400
Einstein invented the phonograph-- one of the first technologies that allowed people to hear music in their own homes. This was the OTHER important invention that helped make ragtime music popular during the 1900s.
What is the player piano?
400
*Listen* This is a technique used often in jazz music that involves singing with nonsense words.
What is scatting?
400
What the last word of each line does in a blues song.
What is rhyme?
400
*Listen* This comical musician known for his piano playing and singing during the 1930s
Who was Fats Waller?
400
This event happened in October of 1929 to throw the United States into the Great Depression during the 1930s.
What is the stock market crash?
500
*Listen* This ragtime song was first popularized in a 1970s movie called "The Sting."
What is "The Entertainer?"
500
Name 3 instruments used in the rhythm section of a jazz band.
What are drums, bass and piano.
500
The form most commonly used in the blues keeps the musicians organized. It goes I- I- I- I- V- V- I- I- IV- V- I- I-
What is 12 bar blues.
500
This president used the song "Happy Days are Here Again" as his campaign song when trying to get elected.
Who was Roosevelt?
500
This singer popularized the style of jazz singing called scat. Listen and answer.