Jazz
Terms
Music History
The Staff
Styles of Music
Musicians
Musicians and Their Instruments
The Planets
Instruments
100

This style of jazz is known for its "12 Bars" 

Blues 

100

Creating music spontaneously instead of following written notes.

Improvisation

100

This style of service is where musicians are paid by their Monarchs for their services 

Patronage 

100

The G Clef 

Treble Clef 

100

A musical style that expresses hardship, sorrow, and resilience, often using bent or “blue” notes and repeating chord patterns.

Blues

100

This musician is known for building pianos 

Clementi 

100

Louis Armstrong 

Trumpet

100

Bringer of Jollity 

Jupiter 

100

This instrument family is made of metal 

Brass 

200

Known for its "Syncopation" 

Ragtime 

200

Music that is planned and written ahead of time.

Composition

200

Rebirth

Renaissance 

200

The lines for the treble clef 

EGBDF 

200

Improvising with the voice using nonsense syllables instead of words.

Scat Singing

200

Known as the "Genius" 

Ray Charles 

200

Ornette Coleman

Alto Saxophone

200

Bringer of War

Mars 

200

The piano belongs to this family 

Percussion 

300

Known for its African/Hispanic Roots 

Afro-Cuban Jazz

300

A moment when one musician plays alone while others accompany them

Solo

300

Father of the Symphony 

Haydn 

300

Lines for the Bass Clef 

GBDFA 

300

A rhythmic feel that makes music lively and danceable.

Swing

300

Leader of the house band for the "Cotton Club" 

Duke Ellington 

300

Gerry Mulligan 

Baritone Saxophone

300

Winged Messenger 

Mercury 

300

This instrument is known as the baby of the brass family. It's also the biggest. 

Tuba 

400

Known for its "free" spirit 

Free Jazz

400

How notes and chords sound together

Harmony

400

Comedic Opera 

Opera Buffa 

400
All _____ eat grass 

cows 

400

A fast, complex style of jazz meant for listening rather than dancing.

Bebop

400

First Jazz musician

Buddy Bolden 

400

Duke Ellington

Piano

400

Bringer of Old Age 

Saturn 

400

Requiress a bow to play 

string instruments 

500

"Ripe Fruit" with an older taste for jazz 

Moldy Figs 

500

A musical pattern in which one voice or instrument plays a phrase and another answers it

Call and Response 

500

Opera without stage craft 

Oratorio 

500

cheater for the treble clef that is connected to your head 

FACE 

500

Jazz based on scales rather than chord changes

Modal Jazz

500

"Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do"

Guido de Arezzo

500

Charles Mingus 

Bass

500

Mystic 

Neptune 

500

A keyboard instrument that can mimic the sound of ALL instruments. Hint: Stevie Wonder 

Synthesizer 

600

Blues originated in this region of the country 

Mississippi Delta 

600

One word associated with Ragtime

Syncopation 

600

Music lyrics that addresses real-world problems 

Social Commentary 

600

The F Clef 

Bass Clef 

600

A style blending bebop, blues, gospel, and R&B

Hard Bop

600

Lucile 

B.B. King's Guitar 

600

John Coletrane 

Tenor Saxophone

600

Uranus 

Magician 

600

Woodwind family that has twice the amount of reeds 

Double Reeds 

700

Reasoning for the Great Migration 

Jim Crow Laws (segregation) 

700

An instrumental with several movements is called what?

Sonata

700

Speak Easy's were created during this impactful time of American History 

Prohibition 

700

Piano reads off of this staff

Both or Grand Staff

700

Jazz without fixed harmony or form

Free Jazz

700

Louis Armstrong's teacher in Chicago 

Joe "King" Oliver 

700

Mr. V's Instrument 

Tuba

700
Bringer of Peace 

Venus 

700

Animal hide is used to make these instruments 

drums (or percussion)