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Spirituals
Blues and Ragtime
Jazz
R&R and Rap
Reading Music
100
A person who sang spirituals.
What is a slave?
100
This type of blues uses just a solo singer and a guitar or harmonica.
What is country or traditional blues?
100
Jazz is a combination of these 2 types of music.
What is a combination of blues and ragtime?
100
This dance became very famous during the Rock & Roll era.
What is the twist?
100
A music staff has this many lines.
What is 5?
200
This is the topic most spirituals are about.
What is religion?
200
This is the kind of rhythm that makes ragtime unique.
What is syncopation?
200
This type of jazz was popular because you could dance to it.
What is swing?
200
Rock & Roll was mostly popular with this age group.
Who are teenagers?
200
The definition of a phrase.
What is a musical sentence?
300
This is what secret messages in spirituals like "Follow the Drinking Gourd" helped slaves do.
What is to escape north?
300
This chord pattern repeats over and over during a blues song.
What is the 12 bar blues?
300
This type of jazz is famous for its fast notes and focus on improvisation.
What is bebop?
300
DJs (or disc jockeys) started using turn tables as instruments by doing this.
What is scratching?
300
A question is a phrase that sounds like this.
What is not over?
400
Spirituals did not use these- even though most types of music do.
What are instruments?
400
The names of the three types of blues.
What is country, Memphis, and Chicago blues?
400
The names of the two different sections in a jazz band.
What are rhythm and horn?
400
To sell more records record companies used to do this to songs originally performed by black artists.
What is rerecord them using white groups?
400
A musical pattern.
What is an ostinato?
500
Slaves didn't want to sing spirituals after this event.
What is the end of the Civil War? or What is their freedom?
500
This is the most popular ragtime song today.
What is "The Entertainer"?
500
Miles Davis performed this type of jazz.
What is Cool Jazz?
500
MC stands for this.
What is master of ceremony?
500
Coda is Italian for this word.
What is "end"?