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