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WorksheetsJazz Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
________ is a style of American music that originated in New Orleans around the late 1800's characterized by strong meter, improvisation and syncopated rhythmic patters
Jazz
R&B
Rock & Roll
Country
___________ is a genre of musical composition for the piano, generally in duple meter and containing a highly syncopated treble lead over a rhythmically steady bass.
Bebop
Big Band
Blues
Dixieland
Ragtime
_____________ is to "play or sing music, by inventing variations on a melody or creating new melodies, rhythms and harmonies while performing.
Improvisation
Syncopation
Swing
Scat
___________ is a form of jazz that comes from the emphasis on the off–beat, or weaker pulse.
Improvisation
Syncopation
Swing
Scat
___________ is the displacement of the beat from its regular and assumed course of meter.
Improvisation
Syncopation
Swing
Scat
___________ is a style of jazz, originating in New Orleans, played by a small group of instruments similar to a marching band including trumpet, trombone, clarinet, tuba, piano, and drums.
Bebop
Big Band
Blues
Dixieland
Ragtime
___________ is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s which features compositions characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.
Bebop
Big Band
Blues
Dixieland
Ragtime
__________ is a type of music that originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s by African-Americans from roots in African-American work songs, and spirituals.
Bebop
Big Band
Blues
Dixieland
Jazz Fusion
__________ is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.
Bebop
Big Band
Blues
Dixieland
Jazz Fusion
__________ is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues.
Bebop
Big Band
Blues
Dixieland
Jazz Fusion
