
The Blues - Mother of All Modern Music
Authored by Brian Hadley
Arts, Performing Arts
4th - 8th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In what part of the USA did the blues begin?
Eastern Seaboard
Mississippi Delta
Great Plains
West Coast
2.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
What are some characteristics of blues music? (check all that apply)
Soulful lyrics about life's hardships
Improvisation
Gritty guitar solos and wailing harmonicas
Cheerful, bubbly singing about rainbows and stickers
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The blues developed out of what kind of music?
European Dance Music and Folk Songs
Classical Opera and Symphonic Music
African-American Spirituals & Work Songs
Disco
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Early blues music was often performed where?
Stadiums
Church
Concert Halls
Juke Joints
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The period when millions of African-Americans left the Southern U.S. to live elsewhere is called the...
Great Migration
Civil War
Great Road Trip
Great Genocide
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The Chicago Blues style is characterized by what?
Electric guitar and often bass, piano and drums
No instruments, just singers
Calm and relaxing chants
K-pop singers
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The blues scale is created by adding a 6th note to what kind of scale?
Major
Minor
Chromatic
Pentatonic
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