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WorksheetsAll That Jazz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Music that requires playing exactly what is on the page is:
Jazz
Ragtime
Blues
Music that has a lot of Improv is:
Jazz
Ragtime
Blues
Who is the King of Ragtime?
Scott Joplin
W.C. Handy
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie
Duke Ellington
Who is the Father of the Blues?
Scott Joplin
W.C. Handy
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie
Duke Ellington
One of the most important American Composers is:
Scott Joplin
W.C. Handy
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie
Duke Ellington
Who started the Bebop movement?
Scott Joplin
W.C. Handy
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie
Duke Ellington
What is the form of Blues lyrics?
AAB
ABC
ABB
ABD
What was new to Jazz that Big Bands featured?
Saxophone
Trumpet
Piano
Voice
Where did Blues music come from?
A Blue shirted musician
Work songs
Happy memories
Nobody knows
What type of ensemble became popular because of large performance spaces?
Combos
Orchestra
Big Band
Opera
When someone improvs, what are they doing?
Playing random notes
Making up a solo that fits with the music
Playing exactly what is on the page
Setting up for a performance
What is swing music?
Music you sit on a swing to listed to?
Jazz music to dance to
Sad songs about working hard
Another form of bebop
Why did combos become popular?
They thought it was cooler than Big bands
more music was being written for smaller ensembles
they didn't have enough $$Money for big bands
Because people didn't like listening to large ensembles
What is different between Bebop Combos and Big Bands?
Big Bands are bigger.
Combos cost more money
Combos take up more space
Big Bands have a clarinet and Combos don't.
Combos is more solo like music.
1900s
Bebop
Jazz
Blues
Ragtime
Swing
1910s
Cool Jazz
Jazz
Blues
Ragtime
Swing
1920s
Cool Jazz
Jazz
Blues
Ragtime
Bebop
1930s
Cool Jazz
Jazz
Blues
Swing
Bebop
1940s
Cool Jazz
Jazz
Blues
Swing
Bebop
1950s
Cool Jazz
Jazz
Blues
Swing
Bebop
