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WorksheetsDoes it Swing? Jazz History
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Where is the birthplace of jazz?
New York City
New Orleans
Bristol
Chicago
This African American music style influenced jazz.
blues
rock
romantic
disco
Improvising is important in jazz music. To improvise means to improve and _____________.
make up something new on the spot
read music
play loudly
give your song a name
Nonsense syllables sung in a way to which mimics horns and other instruments is called ___________.
cool cat singing
scat singing
bebopping
swinging
This device is put in the bell of a trumpet or trombone to change the sounds.
wah
glove
can
mute
What does multiphonics mean?
playing two sounds at once
multiplication
writing a jazz hit
teaching a jazz song
What technology most helped jazz spread across the United States in the 1920's?
TV
Radio
records
cars
Duke Ellington's theme song on his radio show was called ______.
"Apple Pie"
"A Train"
"B Bus"
"It Don't Mean a Thing"
After jazz spread to the big cities in the north, _________ was it's new home; where the legendary Cotton Club featured jazz musicians live every night.
Beale Street
Soho
Brooklyn
Harlem
_______ was the most popular music in America in the 1920's-1940's.
Country
Classical
Jazz
Blues
