Jazz Roots
What city is the birthplace of Jazz?
New Orleans
This famous trumpeter invented scat and pioneered early jazz music in New Orleans.
Louis Armstrong
This style of jazz music was hot, fast, and complicated to play due to its virtuosity.
Bebop
This movement in music made composers think about the feeling, sensation, and atmosphere of music rather than the details.
Impressionism
This composer used impressionism in his music.
Debussy
This music began in the Mississippi Delta and traveled down to New Orleans on the Mississippi River.
Blues
The inventor of Ragtime.
Scott Joplin
This jazz genre combined Rock with Jazz.
Jazz Fusion
Multiple rhythms occuring at the same time.
Polyrhythm
Leonard Bernstein wrote this musical using American jazz influences.
West Side Story
This style of piano music was a predecessor to Jazz.
Ragtime
These two jazz musicians pioneered the genre of Bebop.
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie
Following as a response to Bebop, this jazz genre was laid back and simpler.
Cool Jazz
This term describes musical sounds that are harsh, clashing, and abrasive.
Dissonance
This composer wrote The Rite of Spring, a ballet about Russian pagan human sacrifice.
Igor Stravinski
This was the biggest European Influence on Early Jazz Music.
Instruments
This Jazz Artist was know as the King of Swing because he established the big band swing sound.
Count Basie
This is the most popular era in Jazz music.
Swing Era
Multiple tonal centers happening at the same time.
Polytonality
Gustov Holst's most famous work for orchestra.
The Planets
These musical road shows performed theatre that stereotyped Black people and adapted black face to do so.
Minstrelsy
This jazz pianist and composer became popular with their classical influences in jazz.
Duke Ellington
This genre of jazz uses alternative scales instead of traditional ones used in jazz.
Modal Jazz
This composer created the American Symphonic Sound.
Aaron Copland