WorksheetsMusic Appreciation Quiz (1)
Total questions: 51
Worksheet time: 42mins
You're a Grand Old Flag, Give my Regards to Broadway and Yankee Doodle Boy
Who wrote these?
(a)
Who played with a bent trumpet
Chuck Berry
Dizzy Gillespie
Miles Davis
How did country music become popular in the 1940s?
(a)
Tempo:
the speed of the beat in music
the relative highness and lowness of sound
Swing music includes:
Made for Dancing
Improvisation
Played by Big Bands
Large group of people
How many jazz genres did we study?
7
3
5
4
Empress of the Blues
Billie Holiday
Bessie Smith
The Planets
(in order)
(a)
Strange Fruit
Who and What
(a)
March King =
(a)
Harmony:
the relative highness and lowness of sound
the blending of notes
Number of instruments in Big Band
13
10-15
17
Name 7 Jazz instruments
(HINT: Follow the order: TSTBDPV)
(a)
Rhapsody in Blues written by:
W.C. Handy
George Gershwin
Scoops and Slides Melody
(a)
What decade id Rock N Roll become popular?
(a)
Jazz genres studied in unit?
(a)
The original name for Country Music:
(a)
Syncopation and constantly moving
What musical genre qualifiers?
(a)
First African-American to host a radio show:
Nat King Cole
Scott Joplin
Duke Ellington
Who called their Jazz Band a Jazz Orchestra?
(a)
A combination of instruments played that is led by a conductor
Orchestra
Band
W.C. Handy
(a)
1st African-American to win a grammy
Count Basie
Louis Armstrong
Etta James
Which two genres were influential in the development in Rock N Roll
(a)
How to play percussion instrument:
Shake it
Hit it
Scrape it
Strike it
King of Ragtime
(a)
Bass, string, woodwinds, and percussion instruments
Band
Orchestra
Brass instruments:
HINT: FTTTB
(a)
Xylophone
(a)
Rite of Spring
Written by
(a)
Pitch:
regular, recurrent pulsations that divide music into equal-time music
the relative highness and lowness of sound
the blending of notes
String instruments:
(a)
Rite of Spring
Pagan ritual
Untraditional music
provocative music
Qualifying factor of brass instrument
made out of brass
pluck or blow
made out of metal
pressing the valves or moving the slide
Blues Qualifiers:
1
(a)
Record companies and studios in Nashville, Tennessee
(a)
Melody:
the blending of notes
ordered duration of sounds and silences
a series of tones that make a recognizable whole
Scat Singing =
(a)
Woodwind instruments:
HINT: FPBCS
(a)
Rhythm:
the blending of notes
ordered duration of sounds and silences
the speed of a beat in music
Qualifying factor of woodwing instrument:
(a)
Musical Suite, The Planets
Who wrote it?
(a)
Dixieland =
(a)
BONUS:
What were the periods we studied?
(a)
Carl Orff
Known for...
(a)
Qualifying factor of how to play string instruments:
(a)
Louis Armstrong
Nicknamed...
(a)
Father of Rock N Roll:
Chuck Berry
Elvis Presely
3 Percussion instruments:
(a)
Beat:
Regular, recurrent pulsations that divide music into equal-time music
the relative highness and lowness of sound
the speed of the beat in music
