Instruments
What are typical bluegrass instruments
Fiddle, mandolin, guitar
What instrument do you hear comping in this piece
What is piano?
Swing Era decade
What is the 1930's?
Jazz rhythms employ a combination of timekeeping and ______________
What is syncopation?
Making it up as you go.
What is improvisation?
Instrument responsible for comping
What is piano?
This musical selection is an example of:
What is adult contemporary?
Most popular types of films during the Great Depression.
What is musicals and cowboy movies?
Common characteristics of jazz
What is swing feel, improvisation, time keepers?
Walking bass is
What is keeping time by playing a note on each beat?
Timekeeping instruments
Piano, bass, drums
What is Bluegrass?
Tin Pan Alley songwriters wrote songs for
What is Vaudeville, Broadway, and Cowboy movies?
What is rhythm and blues and country western?
Hillbilly music referred to
What is music being performed in the hills?
solo instruments in jazz music
Trumpet, saxophone, piano, bass, drums
The lyrics of this song help us to identify it as what genre?
What is country?
What changed music during the great depression?
Music and dancing made people forget about their sad lives. Swing music got people moving and happy.
The heart of jazz is
What is pulse?
Accents in unexpected places or on weak beats is
What is syncopation?
Big band instruments
Time keepers, brass section, saxophone section, soloist
What is the name of the vocal style being performed?
What is scat?
What music was popular on the radio in the 1930's
What is swing music?
Describe minstrel songs
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