Ragtime to Jazz

Who is the one ragtime composer we studied?

• BB King

• Jelly Roll Morton

• Scott Joplin

• Duke Ellington

Ragtime mainly features this instrument:

• Harmonica

• Piano

• Trumpet

• Bottleneck Slide Guitar

In Jazz, singing using nonsense syllables.

• scatting

• skating

• scanning

• scamming

Type of rhythms found in jazz/ more than one rhythm.

• Monorhythm

• Polysyllablic

• Polyrhythm

• Polyphonic

Trumpet player with a gravelly voice.

• Louis Armstrong

• Miles Davis

• Captain Kirk

• Kenny G

The polyrhythms in jazz came from what country?

• Asia

• Austria

• Australia

• Africa

Self-proclaimed "inventor of jazz."

• Duke Ellington

• Ella Fitzgerald

• George Gerschwin

• Jelly Roll Morton

This inventor of jazz tried to imitate big band on the piano.

• Scott Joplin

• Jelly Roll Morton

• Buddy Bolden

• Gerald Lee

Genre of music found in the Civil War ear:

• blues

• rock and roll

• jazz

• spirituals

This word, or style of music, means "to be sad."

• Blues

• Gospel

• Reds

• Jazz