Ragtime
New Orleans Jazz
Big Band & Swing
Bebop
Instruments
100

The main instrument used in Ragtime.

What is the PIANO?

100

Name one of the main instruments used in this style of Jazz.

What is TRUMPET, CLARINET, CORNET, TROMBONE, or PIANO?

100

The size of the Bands for Swing music were Large or Small.

What is LARGE?

100

The size of the Bands for Bebop music were Large or Small?

What is SMALL?

100

Instrument that has 88 strings and can play soft and loud.

What is the Piano?

200
He is the King of RAGTIME.

Who is Scott Joplin?

200

He is the King of Jazz.

Who is Louis Armstrong?

200

She is the Queen of Jazz.

Who is Ella Fitzgerald?

200

Nicknamed the Bird because he loved chicken and known for playing the saxophone.

What was Charlie Parker?

200

The instrument that slides to and from notes.

What is the trombone.

300

How much did his piano lesson cost?

What is NOTHING?  His piano teacher saw his talent and gave him free lessons to learn to play and write music. 

300

When was New Orleans Jazz starting?

What is the 1920's?

300
With its clear melodies and strong beats, you are suppose to do this with SWING Jazz?

What is DANCE?

300
Nicknamed Dizzy, this person taught himself to play the trumpet and the trombone.

Who is Dizzy Gillespie?

300

Name of the smaller brass instrument.

What is the Trumpet?

400

The decade that Ragtime began to be popular?

What is the 1900's?

400

The ability to mimic instrumental sounds with your voice while improvising nonsense.

What is SCAT singing?

400
The time when Big Band and Swing music began.

What is the 1930's? 

400

Bebop broke away from tradition to display musical skills in a complex way starting when.

What is the 1940's?

400

This instrument is made of brass but has a reed in the mouthpiece.

What is the Saxophone?

500

Name the composer and his piece of music (rag) that was named after a tree.

What is the Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin?

500

The ability to create music that is not written down while playing an instrument.

What is IMPROVISING?

500

The first Jazzman to write long works for his Orchestra where he played piano.

Who was Duke Ellington?

500

Because it was fast and complex, bebop was not meant for this.

What is DANCING?

500

This word is accenting the "upbeats" or weak beats in music.

What is syncopation?