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WorksheetsUnit 2 (Jazz)
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
New Orleans style (Dixieland)
Brief, unaccompanied solos
a complex style of music usually for small jazz groups consisting of four to six players. This new style was meant for attentive listening and had sophisticated harmonies and unpredictable rhythms.
typically played by a small group of 5 to 8 performers and usually based on a march or church melody, ragtime piece, popular song, or 12 bar blues.
Front line
a musical term for saxophones and brass instruments playing short, repeated phrases.
Melodic instruments that include the trumpet, clarinet, or trombone. These players would improvise several contrasting melodic lines at once, producing polyphonic texture.
14 or 15 musicians grouped into three sections: saxophones, brass instruments, and rhythm.
Breaks
Brief, unaccompanied solos
a musical term for saxophones and brass instruments playing short, repeated phrases.
a form of jazz that was related to bop but was far calmer and more relaxed in character, the opposite of the “hot” jazz of the earlier era.
Tag
vocalization of a melodic line with nonsense syllables.
a new style combining the jazz musicians improvisatory approach with rock rhythms and tone colors.
A refrain of the introduction before the end of the piece
Scat singing
vocalization of a melodic line with nonsense syllables.
a complex style of music usually for small jazz groups consisting of four to six players. This new style was meant for attentive listening and had sophisticated harmonies and unpredictable rhythms.
Brief, unaccompanied solos
Swing band
A refrain of the introduction before the end of the piece
14 or 15 musicians grouped into three sections: saxophones, brass instruments, and rhythm.
typically played by a small group of 5 to 8 performers and usually based on a march or church melody, ragtime piece, popular song, or 12 bar blues.
Riffs
A refrain of the introduction before the end of the piece
a complex style of music usually for small jazz groups consisting of four to six players. This new style was meant for attentive listening and had sophisticated harmonies and unpredictable rhythms.
a musical term for saxophones and brass instruments playing short, repeated phrases.
Bebop
a form of jazz that was related to bop but was far calmer and more relaxed in character, the opposite of the “hot” jazz of the earlier era.
a complex style of music usually for small jazz groups consisting of four to six players. This new style was meant for attentive listening and had sophisticated harmonies and unpredictable rhythms.
A refrain of the introduction before the end of the piece
Cool jazz
vocalization of a melodic line with nonsense syllables.
a musical term for saxophones and brass instruments playing short, repeated phrases.
a form of jazz that was related to bop but was far calmer and more relaxed in character, the opposite of the “hot” jazz of the earlier era.
Free jazz
A style of jazz that was not based on regular forms or established chord pattern.
Melodic instruments that include the trumpet, clarinet, or trombone. These players would improvise several contrasting melodic lines at once, producing polyphonic texture.
typically played by a small group of 5 to 8 performers and usually based on a march or church melody, ragtime piece, popular song, or 12 bar blues.
Jazz rock or fusion
Brief, unaccompanied solos
a new style combining the jazz musicians improvisatory approach with rock rhythms and tone colors.
Melodic instruments that include the trumpet, clarinet, or trombone. These players would improvise several contrasting melodic lines at once, producing polyphonic texture.
