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WorksheetsBlues History
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
What musical technique can you hear?
Call and response
Verse and chorus
Blues scale
swing rhythm.
What style of song can you hear?
Country Blues
Memphis Blues
Work Song
Country Song
Why is 1865 important in the history of Blues music?
African people were taken as slaves and they started to sing work songs?
African/American slaves were free and they could develop their style?
African/American slaves were told to work out in the cotton fields and started to use call and response?
What is the name of the popular musical structure used in Blues music?
Walking bass Line
Improvisation
12 Bar Blues
Chords.
What is improvisation?
A bass line?
A melody you improvise using the Blues scale?
A chord pattern?
A melody written on paper?
Where did the Blues start?
Southern France
Southern USA
Northern Europe
Australia
What defines a Blues song?
Fast tempo, synthesisers, drum machines
Orchestral instruments, violins etc.
Sad lyrics, slow tempo, call and response
Happy lyrics, electronic instruments
What music did the Blues evolve from?
Rock and Roll
Rap
Spirituals
Pop
What mood does the Blues portray?
Happiness
Sadness
Surprise
Fear
How many bars in a Blues?
4
8
12
16
What is Improvisation?
A tune played on guitar
The melody in a piece of music
The lyrics to a Blues song
Music made up on the spot
The exact birth place of the Blues it not known, however historians believed it originated in this state...
Florida
California
Minnesota
Mississippi
The Blues evolved from a combination of musical styles including...
Spirituals
Rock
Work Song
Soul
The Blues was able to emerge as African American's began to travel across American after which two events...
The American Civil War
The Wall street crash
Prohibition
The abolition of slavery
