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African American Music
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performing-arts
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music
Instructions:
Answer 35 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A musical figure repeated at the same pitch throughout the composition
Ostinato
Three Things All Dance Involves
Ragtime
Duke Ellington
2. Big Band-first inter-racial music group
Drum Censorship
The Blues
Break
Count Basie
3. A larger jazz band characterized by ensemble and solo improvisation
W.C. Handy
Big Band
The Blues
Duke Ellington
4. An istrument that derives its sound by being shaken or struck.
Polyrhythmic
Duke Ellington
Drum Censorship
Percussion
5. A spirit dancer
Drum Censorship
Egungun Dancer
Kente Cloth
W.C. Handy
6. 'Father of the Blues'
Drum Censorship
W.C. Handy
Ragtime
Dixieland Jazz
7. Combination of jazz and rock
Scat
Harlem Renaissance
Fusion
Three Things All Dance Involves
8. Space - time - and force
Fusion
Three Things All Dance Involves
Break
Duke Ellington
9. Juxtaposing two or more different rhythms
Polyrhythmic
Percussion
B.B. King
Duke Ellington
10. A musical form distinguished by its reliance on improvisation and its rhythmic urgency; America's gift to the world
Choreography
W.C. Handy
Jazz
Syncopation
11. Ballroom that both whites
The Blues
Syncopation
Savoy Ballroom
Benny Goodman
12. And easy-listening type of jazz
Egungun Dancer
Dixieland Jazz
Louis Armstrong
Smooth Jazz
13. An African American music that often expresses sadness - longing - or frustration
The Blues
Improvisation
Fusion
Drum Censorship
14. Rebirth of African-American culture
Harlem Renaissance
Choreography
Ragtime
Ostinato
15. Most prolific American composer (Big Band)
Duke Ellington
Scott Jplin
Jazz
Ragtime
16. A complex and sophisticated type of improvisation jazz
Smooth Jazz
Bebop (bop)
Benny Goodman
Form
17. Form of vocal improvisation on nonsense syllables
B.B. King
Fusion
Benny Goodman
Scat
18. A measure or two where nobody plays except for the soloist.
Clave
Egungun Dancer
Polyrhythmic
Break
19. Jazz played by small band and characterized by ensemble and solo improvisation
Dixieland Jazz
Jazz
Form
Percussion
20. Black dance; once America's national dance
Lindy Hop
Kente Cloth
The Blues
'Strange Fruit'
21. Deliberate shifts of accent so that it conflicts with a steady beat
Louis Armstrong
Syncopation
W.C. Handy
Choreography
22. A steady - recurring pulse
Beat
Egungun Dancer
Syncopation
Clave
23. First recorded anti-racial song; recorded by Billie Holliday
24. One of the most famous female blues singers; first black woman to work with a white orchestra
Drum Censorship
Bebop (bop)
Ragtime
Billie Holliday
25. Basic rhytmic pattern that forms the foundation for complex rhythms played by multiple drums.
Clave
Polyrhythmic
B.B. King
Egungun Dancer
26. Developed ragtime music
Scott Jplin
Polyrhythmic
Drum Censorship
Bebop (bop)
27. A type of spontaneous musical invention
Three Things All Dance Involves
Dixieland Jazz
Improvisation
Beat
28. Structure and design of a musical composition incorporating unity - variety - content - and repitition.
Scat
Fusion
Form
Improvisation
29. One of America's most famous jazz musicians
Egungun Dancer
Count Basie
Louis Armstrong
Drum Censorship
30. The art of planning dance
Scott Jplin
Choreography
Ostinato
Louis Armstrong
31. 'King of Swing'
Benny Goodman
Louis Armstrong
Drum Censorship
Fusion
32. Rhythm characterized by syncopation in the melody and regularly accented accompaniment.
Ragtime
Percussion
Dixieland Jazz
Egungun Dancer
33. If dancer messes up - then the drums stop
Ostinato
Drum Censorship
Dixieland Jazz
Choreography
34. Brightly colored woven fabric originally worn by Ashante kings
Form
Polyrhythmic
Kente Cloth
Benny Goodman
35. One of the most famous male blues singers who helped R & B develop
Bebop (bop)
B.B. King
The Blues
Dixieland Jazz